1967 - as a 5 year old kid I lived in Toronto for the summer before returning to the UK and one thing I always remembered was the trolleybus.

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Great shots. I was born in the late 60s, so I only remember the early 70s onward. It’s interesting to view the 60s photos before drug culture fully enveloped places like Parkdale and Moss Park. There was more pride of appearance back then. Or so it seems.

I'm a train and I approve this video!!!

Thanks. Some amazing shots. Seeing things that are gone forever--Lord Simcoe Hotel, Union Station in its yellow/red cladding, Yonge and Eglinton's previous streetscape. Toronto is in a bad place right now--I hope I can look at this comment in a year as historic.

Great Street ilm - Those Trolly busses were a hoot !

I didn't see the North Toronto loop at Yonge and Yonge Blvd.. North Toronto had a couple more, one on Mount Pleasant.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. This video is FANTASTIC! I watched it several times and, each time I watched it, I noticed things that I had not seen the time before. Keeping this comment short is going to be impossible. These are the greatest and clearest pictures of the TTC streetcars and trolley buses that I have ever seen. There are some really historical photos here! I hope that former TTC Historian Mike Filey sees this video as I am sure he will be very impressed. I know this city from one end to the other and you were clearly from one end of Toronto to the other in taking all these amazing photos and videos. A tremendous amount of work went into taking all of those photos and video. The locations and names in your video are very accurate. Your compilation at the beginning of your video of the streetcar and trolley bus rosters (vehicle manufacturers, origins and vehicle numbers) is way beyond anything that I could have ever accomplished on my own and I have never seen anything like that in any TTC video. You have very good sources for information! A tremendous amount of work went into producing this video and credit must be given where credit is due! Most of your photos are from way before I first came to Toronto (1986). I've been past Lansdowne Division many times but never saw it filled with a sea of beautiful PCC streetcars! At

The 4700 class cars seen in this presentation had quite a history. They were built by Pullman in Boston for Birmingham Ala, delivered in 1947(?) and numbered 50 (an additional 50 were in the planning stage). Subsequently, a lawsuit in the US Supreme Court (Budd VS Pullman) was settled and basically went a long way to killing off some trolley systems. The decision precluded a company such as BEPCO (Birmingham Electric & Power Co) from owning municipal transportation systems. So, BEPCO benefited from using electric streetcars and providing the power that ran them. In effect powering the cars with their own power saved huge costs, and was considered unfair. So BEPCO had to divest the Birmingham Electric Railways. This became Birmingham Transit which then converted to buses selling the almost new trolleys to Toronto. Later in the late 60's Philadelphia had a large car barn fire which destroyed many PCC's (some of their best). They then acquired many of the Toronto 4700's, just painting over the Toronto emblem and putting a PTC decal on the car. I saw these cars running in the late 60's and 70's, still in Toronto system paint!

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I remember when they started phasing the battleships out.. those new cars didnt have the same charm. And sometimes i still think its a shame they changed.

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I drove the ttc trolley buses .

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