Danforth Streetcars - Feb. 1966
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- 8mm film footage of the TTC's PCC streetcars on Danforth Ave. at various intersections along the route.
The old Hollinger Bus Lines Station is visible in multiple shots, which still stands today as a restaurant. Streetcars can been seen exiting from the old Danforth Yard as well. Some streetcars were coupled together for multiple-unit operation.
This footage was shot by the late Jim Borland in Febuary of 1966, shortly before the Danforth streetcars were replaced by the Bloor-Danforth Subway Line.
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If I could go back in time in Canada... I would literally sigh with relief.
That's the hard way to deal with political constipation:- we just need to apply an enema to Justin Trudeau so he can finally slide out of the way and there will be instant blessed relief for Canadians everywhere, no need to time-travel! 😀
Very cool to see Coxwell and Danforth, my hood! I never knew Shoppers used to be a Loblaws!
i live i n toronto all my life and i never knew that we had street cars on the danforth wow\
Ya me to or that restaurant was actually a bus station below cowell station right beside shoppers. Lived there for 20 years
February 1966 is when the Bloor/Danforth Subway line opened from Keele to Woodbine.
Feb 26/66 if you please!
Those old extended streetcars look great.
They were called "multiple-unit trains".
WOW! in 1966 it was the first time we visited Toronto Canada. And I do remember riding one of the streetcars. 👍👍👍👍👍.🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋.👍👍👍👍👍.
Aww these were the days, would have loved to have been alive then , many of the landmarks i recognize , i miss old toronto
I was alive then, junior, and a teenager:- yeah there was good stuff but also a lot of not-so-good stuff, I would not want to go back:- don't let yourself wallow in misplaced nostalgia, just enjoy your youth and live "carpe diem" (ie live in the present) and try to focus on making a better future for yourself, your family, and your community:- as my late mother would say:- "Cemeteries are only for visiting, the living cannot live there because they are so crowded with dead souls, the only place with enough room for the living is always in the future where there is plenty of space". 🙂
Amazing footage! Thanks for sharing.
Thank-you!
I remember it all...I lived on Tennis Cres off of Broadview....across from Riverdale Park....good old days..!!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🌲🌲
I was a little young to remember 1966, but I was grasping how the world worked in the late 60's and I can remember the fuss about moving into the 70's. They were optimistic times. Today we have a government we can not trust, and a young person with hopes to buy their first house is up against a lot of competition. Things have changed, but I am not sure for the better!
at 2:25+ there is a streetcar exiting Cedarvale Ave onto eastbound Danforth:- it looks like a "Y" but actually they were testing the new temporary streetcar loop at Woodbine Station which was closed after May 11/68 when the extensions opened:- more tram trivia for all you addled Toronto streetcar fanatics! The guy with the switch-point lever is there to reset the trolley pole if it slips off the very new overhead installation which was subsequently dismantled by summer of 1968. Btw, when the new "Crosstown" opened on Feb 26/66 the TTC did something so shockingly amazing:- at Keele Stn they were giving away a subway token to each person who came to test-ride the new line on a Saturday morning:- it was a truly big event in Toronto that day, almost as popular as a hockey game (at a time when the Maple Leafs still managed to win the Stanley Cup). 🙂
Nice! Still a bit of track behind Woodbine station on Strathmore. Not as much as before because they removed the bit that was on Cedarvale.
Yes, those were the days, having it on with the most popular lady in the city:- Jane Bloor!!! 😃
Back before the union told drivers to slow down at points. The PCC cars used to haul through intersections.
Clickety clack clickety clack shake rattle and roll:- my lullaby!🙂
I still have the Robertson Chev-Olds song in my head.
Yea a fixture in that neighborhood for sure
WHERE I GREW UP THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Another winner and great to see Jim's movies again. Thanx for posting OERHA. I'll have to go visit Rockwood someday eh.
Interesting to see some shots of Harbord cars on Pape. Just think, if this line were still intact do you think it may have been dubbed a downtown relief line? It sure was then.
Anyhow, the scene at Cedarvale is interesting as the 4300 that was coming south to east was very likely a test car as Woodbine Subway Station Loop was still a few days away from being the new west end of the truncated Danforth line.
I was flooded with all kinds of memories here as I remember well having traveled downtown with my Mom and when coming back home, we would be diverted into Hillingdon Loop for coupling up into a train for the prep for the evening rush. (Some cars are seen leaving it across from the Loblaws)
Dougy Morton, one of my lodge Brothers, was a motorman out of the Danforth division and he told me a story of an evening rush hour when he was the Operator on the lead car of an eastbound train. A line Inspector asked him to short turn at Hillingdon as there was a sizable gap in the westbound service. So his lead car entered the loop, but the trail car decided it wanted to go to Luttrell. The poor Inspector's gap just immediately widened.
Too I recall hot and muggy summer days when we would pass the Bus Terminal and be assaulted with the stench of low lying diesel fumes from idling Gray Coach buses. Head spinning nausea that was.
And I remember standing on the westbound island at Coxwell when the car that we had been on, from our transfer from the Scarborough diesel buses at Luttrell, was taken out of service and while waiting would look into the yard and say, 'Mom, let's ride on one of those old ones', as Witts were stored there between rush hour runs.
With some exceptions, most of the varieties of TTC's PCCs are seen in these scenes, certainly all that normally plied TTC's east end lines. This footage is exceptionally historically significant as Jim knowingly had recorded the twilight days of the largest fleet of PCC cars in the world. Alexandria Egypt and razor blades were the next stop.
"be assaulted with the stench of low lying diesel fumes from idling Gray Coach buses":- hmmm, obviously not a bus aficionado. I actually loved the smell of diesel fumes and the throaty growl and roar of the big diesel engines:- what could be more exciting for a little tyke than watching the city moving and working! I was in love with long-distance living, to each his own. 🙂
It was called a "split-switch":- the lead car would start accelerating too soon which caused a surge of power through the electromagnetic actuator hidden between the rails and this tripped the switch so the trailer car would follow the street track leading to a derailment and ultimately many unhappy transit riders:- they later phased out those electromagnetic switches due to too many safety issues with split switches which tended to be quite temperamental:- in 1944 a split switch at Mutual St derailed a crowded morning rush-hour car in a winter snowstorm and the Witt car fell over injuring everyone and killing a passenger.
@@eve-marie6751 In this case, the trail car's switch actuator had shorted out and thus allowed the switch to throw mid train. Dougy was in deep dooh dooh until the fault was found to his defense.
The wreck at Mutual Street during WW2 was a Toronto Railway Company car, not a Witt. I'm unsure if the switch throwing at the wrong time in '44 was the case. I was always under the belief that the motorman had missed that he was at Mutual and didn't check the position of the switch under the snow. Support for my theory is the single truck snow sweeper entering the loop. That car's crew should have reset the switch behind them, thus two oversights at the same wreck.
One of the reasons the TR car had tipped over was being a wood car the force of the sudden curvature overstressed the25+ year old wood structure and the king pins tore out.
Fantastic video of the yesteryear, beatufully done!
My god. It looks like service was every 30 seconds back then.
It was rush hour but yes the service was quite good.
Kind of depresive filling, like I been there all ready may times, time paradox!
So many rules being broken compared to today’s standards.
OOOHHHHHYES