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RSS FeedsEdward Keenan: A fond farewell to Toronto´s trolleys
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

13 december 2017 00:42:46

 
Edward Keenan: A fond farewell to Toronto´s trolleys
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


It is, by now, one of the most recognizable and defining sights of Toronto’s streets: through the dark of night, peering down the road, you see the three white lights lined up in a row — the small round headlight on each side and the big one in the middle — and centered above them two green lights. You see those lights and you know. A streetcar is coming. Finally, you might mutter.Then there’s the rumble, like a giant ceramic bowl rolling around on its rim, maybe the clang-clang of a bell. And then bands of colour come into view, the red along the front, the shiny dark of the windshield, the white along the roof broken by the black-and-white of the destination sign. For 40 years, these CLRV streetcars have been Toronto’s trolley, an ever-present feature of downtown streets, our unique ride, a design used nowhere else in the world. Now, of course, they are being phased out as the TTC’s new Flexity cars — a modified version of the most common streetcar design in the world — takes over. The CLRVs, it’s short for Canadian light rail vehicle, won’t completely disappear from service until at least 2019, so it will be a long goodbye. But a fond one, for some of us. And one marked by a milestone last week, when a video uploaded to YouTube December 9 showed Car 4000 lifted from its tracks and placed onto a truck, headed for the scrapyard. The plan, I’m told, is to keep one or two for charters and special occasions, museum pieces, like the old PCC and Peter Witt cars you still spot once or twice a year on Queens Quay.Car 4000 was not, by a longshot, the first one taken out of service, but it was the first one put into service. It was the first one Toronto ever saw — the prototype, made in Switzerland and brought here in 1977. There were complaints at first: the windows didn’t open despite a lack of air-conditioning, they were very much louder than the PCC “Red Rocket” cars they repla ...


 
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