MTU: The Transport Museum Paris Doesn't Know It Has

[@namewarvergeben]

4:24 "How hard can it be to drive one of these things?" New headline: "Paris Transport Museum metro fire!"

[@Mynervas]

“Glass Pond” starts playing and a voice over begins: “On the 20th of July 2021, Tim was visiting the MTU when a fire broke out.”

[@rosiefay7283]

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

[@namewarvergeben]

@@Mynervas hahaha I'm clearly not the only one who has been binging Fascinating Horror lately ;) I didn't even know that's the name of the song and still "recognised" it

[@R2k2]

@@rosiefay7283 Famous last words. :)

[@justanotherglorpsdaymornin5097]

Outrageous pedantry is such a beautiful phrase.

[@aveekbh]

Pieces of outrageous pedantry are what we (or at least I) love about this channel!

[@derauditor5748]

@@aveekbh #MeToo

[@starfox6335]

LOLOL!! Especially when you pronounce outRAAAAgeous with a soprano note in the middle!

[@hapticflapjack]

Yes, "outrageous pedantry" - I'm in!

[@loscriba6244]

Ah, yes, the tram that operated in the Netherlands, was built in Belgium and is currently located in France, at the Urban Transport Museum - which is run by the Association of the Museum of Urban, Interurban and Rural Transport. All of which stemmed from the idea of a Parisian Transport Museum (but not in Paris). Just as intricate as the French language itself. Well played, mes cousins d'outre-Alpes

[@mattsmocs3281]

It should be noted it is a St. Louis Car co PCC car by design

[@obelic71]

@@mattsmocs3281 lots of countries had PCC trams in service. In the Netherlands they were long in operational use so it makes sense to get a retirered PCC from the Netherlands.

[@KapteinFruit]

Top comment 100% :)

[@piccalillipit9211]

If its not gloriously complicated and improbable - its not French...

[@rileycoyote4924]

It's like the european version of the Illinois Railway Museum.

[@daanwilmer]

If I could give an extra like for the piano rendition of "O, o, Den Haag" (lit. "Oh, Oh, The Hague", basically a love song to the city) whilst showing the Dutch tram I would. However, you got my like at "and _obviously_ we're going to catch the bus".

[@jaapsch2]

Oh wow! I didn't notice that.

[@vincentromezin8702]

It's a classic from Tim's videos. I find myself wanting to like them several times during their course, and end up sad that I can't like MULTIPLE times.

[@Quick_Fix]

Good chance I once rode that old yellow HTM tram as a kid; I was even born in the "Statenkwartier". Thanks for the nice surprise @Tim! ♥️

[@baskruitnl]

Yeah, that O, O Den Haag on piano was epic!

[@LeafHuntress]

Tim, pandering again to the Dutch public... But like you i already gave a thumbs-up at _obviously_ (^.^)

[@lijn_45]

Those the Hague trams have been sold to museums in many countries. There are two in the Hannover Tram Museum, Germany. Another one is now active in Belgium. The English National Tramway Museum also has one. Lastly the National Capital Trolley Museum near Washington DC owns one of these trams.

[@coastaku1954]

They are actually Licence built PCC Streetcars, the original PCC streetcars can be found in pretty much every Trolley/Streetcar museum across The US and Canada

[@marco23p]

A lot of European cities have used those PCC cars. It may well be that some French tramways used those same PCC cars, but that all that was available were the cars from The Hague.

[@terinjokes]

And San Francisco runs them on the E and F lines. Now that I've seen the lovely yellow color of Den Haag ones, I must make a request for one to be painted to match.

[@jessiehuijsing7116]

The Hague also has its own transport museum where i live next door to with a great collection of trams and buses from the 1900 till now definitely worth to check out if you're in The Hague.

[@terinjokes]

@@jessiehuijsing7116 Hopefully (relatively) soon!

[@p_mouse8676]

A Paris transport museum not in Paris, missing part of the collection and only open at third Saturday of the month. Can't get more French that that LOL! :D

[@CrippleX89]

Perhaps if they sold baguettes and wine, which they possibly do

[@xouxoful]

I don’t buy « French » being synonymous for « absurd ». The museum is called « musée des transport urbains de France » and well, people of the association are not paid to do that. So even if it’s once a month, thanks to them.

[@luislaplume8261]

Which is why I prefer American museums which has some trolleys from NYC and Philadelphia. Unfortunately Philadelphia has only a few subway cars preserved at trolley museums around the country, while NYC where I grew up has preserved vintage subway trains and a 1907 wood el train in in subway yards and in the NYC Transit Museum.

[@richardbloemenkamp8532]

One hint: if you intend to go there, call them up before. It's not my first time in Paris where something is closed due to 'petits vacances'. And if you call them they will probably tell you that either of course it is open or "no, exceptionally closed, even on the third Saterday of the month". Hats off, to the volunteers however who make these small museums work and overall I really can't complain about the number of great museums in Paris.

[@tkautzor]

@@richardbloemenkamp8532 until last Saturday, they'd been exceptionally closed for a year due to 'petits covid' and will probably close again soon due to that.

[@unlapras9365]

A transport museum was once planned at Gare de Lyon, just next to the current ligne 14 station. That's why there is a large empty space on one side of the station, which has finally been filled with a nice tropical garden. The idea was cancelled because building a track between the museum and the existing metro system would have been extremely expensive.

[@mattiasthorslund6467]

And moving the exhibits into the museum without a track, say on a transport trailer, would be somehow inconceivable? It's done all the time.

[@sirBrouwer]

@@mattiasthorslund6467 to be far if it was connected to the rail network you could actually use the metro's. It's one think to conserve a train or other mode of transport fixed in place. but way more interesting would be to keep them functioning.

[@unlapras9365]

@@mattiasthorslund6467 Indeed, that's exactly what was done in Chelles. But the idea was to have a museum in dowtown Paris, juste beneath RATP's headquarter, which was a much more prestigious location.

[@Brigadelokcom]

The building was formerly a steel coil and sheets company and this is why you can see so many rolling gantries over the buses. The current site is located in the immediate vicinity of the Vaire sur Marne triage and the museum building once could have been extended, connected or rebuilt along the triage tracks for more convenience. It had some potential for the association that already had problems at its former location and chose to come to Chelles in spite it is still a dire situation because of the tremendous real estate pressure. Even the triage has been dramatically reduced with track removal. You guess that political changes led all hopes to be stopped there. One day, the museum will have to leave, and finding an other place, if even possible, would probably end up really farther form Paris...

[@michelmartin3064]

I am living nearby since 25 years, and I had never heard of it before. I've discovered it today and... it's open tomorrow and the day after too ! It must not be a coincidence but a sign from above ! Thanks Tim !

[@vitalyvolkov1618]

Hi! Have you visited the museum?

[@RemiCardona]

Tim, there's also Ademas, which has its own private collection of Paris Metros and is on the other side of the region in Versailles. They are located in the Matelots military camp. They also have huge steam-powered rail cranes. Surely you can get in touch with them and get a tour.

[@Radinden]

Another plug for Mulhouse's museums, another actual laugh-out-loud at "you're never more than five metres from an acronym", and a passing appreciation for the old Strasbourg tram glimpsed at 6:17.

[@delurkor]

a) Very nice video, thank you b) One complaint: more video of the tram model layout. At least they can run. c) As a volunteer at a trolley(tram to you across the pond) I can understand the difficulties in running an operating museum. d) I remember seeing those open platform buses running in Paris in the late fifties. Yes, I'm old. 😜

[@cheesedoff-with4410]

Ted Moreland "b) One complaint: more video of the tram model layout." You'd have to watch to the very end or you'd have missed it. Yes, I want to see more. Perhaps there's some footage that will find its way into the Tim Noël Special?

[@XEinstein]

3:40 I'm actually watching this from Den Haag now. Not in Statenkwartier though. Anyway, Den Haag also has an excellent public transport museum that you'd love, Tim. And in summer they actually ride through the city with their vintage trams.

[@LPyourplay]

And unlike the Paris Public Transport Museum, it's actually located in The Hague.

[@PeterM_K]

Did you notice the 'o, o, Den Haag' music at that timestamp?

[@XEinstein]

@@PeterM_K No I didn't, but I read it in another comment and looked back. Then I surely recognised it

[@firelight193]

And also in den haag is a car museum. And close by is a nice steam train museum.

[@jonasgrenild]

Came for the museum, stayed for the Thomas & Friends music. Fantastic video as always!

[@michelspeelman3599]

I chuckled when it dawned on me which song you played during the tram from The Hague Part 🎶 " oh oh Den Haag" 🎶 Keep the vlogs coming !

[@Althomir]

I see other people have already mentionned that Mulhouse has a great train museum, but there is also a nice car museum there and a museum about electricity, so it might be worth a trip!

[@AnnabelSmyth]

Definitely. The car museum less than the train museum, which was the best railway museum I've ever visited, and that includes the National Railway Museum in York.

[@robingray1302]

@@AnnabelSmyth I would agree, the (ex Schlumpf collection) car museum is good but suffers from a surfiet of Bugattis (who'd have thought....), I also found the rail museum unexpectedly excellent !!

[@uncinarynin]

@@robingray1302 After visiting the car museum I used to think that Bugatti once was a very common brand. Only much later I found that they never really went into large series mass production.

[@BlairdBlaird]

Peugeot also has its own car museum which is quite nice. It's in Sochaux, so if you're in mulhouse to visit the train and car museums it's a pretty short hop.

[@TheOddVideoChannel]

Isn't the metro afraid of daylight? Or do they keep it in a special corner, surrounded by crosses and garlic to prevent it running away?

[@PianoKwanMan]

It's france. Bien sur, there are ropes of garlic around the metro

[@offichannelnurnberg5894]

This joke would work better if metro wouldn't run overground... Or am I naively assuming that every metro dips out in the open sometimes and paris metro is really 100% underground?

[@quentintin1]

@@offichannelnurnberg5894 most of the Paris Metro network is underground, you have 14 metro lines, but a few have some sections of rail open to air, namely: Line 1: open section of rail crossing the Seine between Paris and La Defense Line 2: 4 above ground stations east of Barbes, in the north of Paris, they cross the railway lines of the north and east stations as well as the canal saint-Martin Line 5: above ground stations at the Paris marina and the Austerlitz train station, rails above ground to cross the seine Line 6: goes above ground to cross the seine just south of the Eiffel tower, then continues above ground for 5 stations before returning underground for the Montparnasse station

[@richardbloemenkamp8532]

@@quentintin1 I knew somebody would know this better than me. ;)

[@offichannelnurnberg5894]

@@quentintin1 Ah now I remember I even made a video back when I was in Paris when the train crossed the Seine with Eiffel Tower in view.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

2:49 reminds me of that episode of Dad's Army, where Jone's van was modified to run on gas

[@kmw4359]

I was just getting over the “strict no smoking policy” when you hit me with the “surprisingly accurate sculpture of a banana” and “… no that doesn’t explain it either.”. 😂

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

3:29 the PCC trolley! I love those things! I forgot that some of them were built outside the US

[@bwhugul]

Notice the Playdays/Playbus (Children's BBC) cover at the beginning 😄

[@ForeverNeverwhere1]

2:26 green Saviem bus on the right, I used to own and live one of those back in my new age traveller days. 2 speed auto meant it had a top speed of 50 ish kph. I bought it a s it is a standing bus so good headroom, but only test drove it around the bus yard and didn't know its top speed, still, i put 14, 000 km on it over 3 years. Paid 500 euro, and just changed the oil the whole time I owned it.

[@hjalfi]

I love the idea of converting a bus into a mobile home, but I'd be terrified of the poor mileage. Also, the tax.

[@ForeverNeverwhere1]

@@hjalfi milage isn't bad at all, I later bought a proper 55 seat long distance coach to live in, got 12 miles per gallon. But normally you drive them from long term park up to another, so don't so many miles.

[@xouxoful]

Well I used to ride those saviem as a kid to go to school in Lyon (late 80, early 90). A pure urban autobus, no need to go over 50-60…

[@DmanYTofficial]

Who doesn’t like a transport museum?

[@ShadowDragon8685]

_Boring_ people.

[@ttaibe]

The French, apparently.

[@firesurfer]

@@ttaibe Tres vrai...

[@LeafHuntress]

There's one i don't like. In Utrecht there's one i *loved* as a child & young adult, but then they decided to change it. Now it's basically one big play pit for small children to play with a sort of Thomas the Tankengine type of toy, that they also just happen to sell there. They still have the trains of course, but little explanation, like reading would be too much for visitors. And all the other stuff, ancient tickets, chairs, ticketmachines, uniforms etc. Those are all shoved to the side & unloved. The dumbing down of this "museum" was frankly insulting, even to the small person i was with, who wanted to know more about big trains on turntables, not terrible toys.

[@millomweb]

I think the best transport museum would be a mobile transport museum ;)

[@brettsinclair1521]

I remember visiting this museum in the mid-90s when it was still located at Porte Dorée in Paris. Back in the days it was run by enthousiastic volunteers who would drive vintage buses to get you from the metro station to the museum. I guess nothing except the location has changed in ... a quarter of a century. Vive la France! And merci Tim for this new great video!

[@andycooke6231]

We also visited it in the late 1980's, got to Paris by hovercraft and train via Boulogne, thanks for reminding me.

[@philippekych1608]

Was the same for me :D

[@pierren1602]

Merci. Je suis un "geek" des transports en commun et je n'avais jamais entendu parler de ce musée. I really enjoyed your channel, keep the good work. Thanks again

[@BOABModels]

You're totally right that there should be more of this kind of museum in and around Paris. Near me in Warwickshire, there's the Coventry Transport Museum, British Motor Museum, and the Midland Air Museum within 30 minutes. The London Transport Museum isn't the best known of those in the capital, but it is in Covent Garden! Pretty central compared to the Paris one!

[@philvanderlaan5942]

A museum (to quote Dr Strangelove ) ‘… loses the whole reason if you don’t tell anyone, Why did you keep it a secret, WHY didn’t you tell the world!’

[@mozdickson]

Next time in Paris, will go. Great transport museums in Coventry UK and Invercargill NZ.

[@loica7552]

Hi, I'm so happy that you give some exposure to this wholesome museum from my home town. You would be surprise by how little people know about it even in the city :)

[@michaelgallo3943]

Your the only VLOG that really make me feel like I am being a tourist. Please keep up the good work.

[@k.r.baylor8825]

As a Yank, I miss European travel. I can't wait until the borders open up again, and sanity is restored.

[@underwaterlaser1687]

That Dutch tram looked vaguely familiar. Come visit the Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht. You’ll love it. There is also the Louwman Museum in The Hague, which displays vintage cars.

[@offichannelnurnberg5894]

It looked like an American tram, or vice versa maybe Americans ran European trams at some point. I just know that there have been "tramsactions" between the USA and Vienna at some point I don't know about Utrecht though.

[@andrineslife]

This channel just makes my heart so happy, this is definitely going on my bucket list ❤️

[@k.r.baylor8825]

Yeah, Tim does a great job with camera, script, delivery, and adventure. He is thoroughly good at his craft. I love his channel!

[@kangaroo092]

Hello and Bonjour ! Paris Transport Museum was in Paris "few" years ago ... I visited it as a child. Let's say we won't speak about my age ^_^ It's a super museum and I took many pictures, I spent a lot of pellicules (we say we won't speak about my age). once again thanks for this wonderful video ...

[@tkautzor]

it was never in Paris, it was in St-Mandé (Val-de-Marne), Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) and now Chelles (Seine-et-Marne).

[@kangaroo092]

@@tkautzor yeees I was so young, my father drove and for me it appeared to be in Paris. Sorry ... It's so long time ago :-/

[@tkautzor]

@@kangaroo092 no need to be sorry, it was just 500m outside Paris. I also visited the same site as a kid about 40 years ago and have never been able to go back to see the collection as an adult.

[@bwaw1972]

I was just thinking today how I missed your “Hello and bonjour”. It always has the ability to make me happy (plus I know that I can enjoy a wonderful video).

[@BN1960]

The accordian version of the On The Buses theme was inspired! (likewise, Thomas The Tank Engine)

[@malahammer]

I'd say most of us got Thomas.....but couldn't place the other one :)

[@Gatherersmusic]

I'm sure I heard allo allo too. This is a great ploy from Tim, gotta watch these video's twice...once for the story and once for the music....double the views 😃

[@kevinmartin7760]

I got On the Buses right away.

[@TimeLordTrekkie96]

And don’t forget the Playdays theme when Tim’s on the bus. I love the music in the videos, love working out what he’s playing, it always makes me smile.

[@jacobsparkes9279]

@@TimeLordTrekkie96 yes the play days theme was a pleasant blast of nostalgia from my childhood!

[@adrihooijer536]

If you want to visit a proper transport museum come to Utrecht in the Netherlands 🇳🇱. They have a mini themed rollercoaster, different shows and a trip back in time.

[@adrihooijer536]

It is called "Het spoorwegmuseum" btw

[@kevinfitzpatrick444]

It's probably a similar story to most other transport museums run by volunteers. The cities can't be having prime real estate being taken up by something that doesn't provide tonnes of rent There used to be a museum in an old tram garage in Birmingham (granted, not central, but not far out by any stretch) but they had to move out 10 miles away and the lovely old tram garage is now yet another "banqueting suite"

[@gregoryferraro7379]

Denver has the Forney Museum of Transportation, a small and underrated museum housing vintage cars, buses, several engines, and multiple types of wagon. Even a few small planes. It was once housed within the old trolley car powerhouse near downtown, but moved when that building was converted to an REI outdoor flagship store.

[@TPWSProductions]

Theres a couple of railway museums, AJECTA in Longueville near the end of Line P, if i remember correctly you pass through Rosny-rail (only served by Line E) which is a mini museum.

[@TPWSProductions]

Come to think of it, i think theres a live Steam/tram museum on Line H at Valmondois

[@beawild]

Charming museum. I love transport museums. I've been to one in Buenos Aires that operates on weekends. They include a half hour tours in some of their lovingly restored trams from different eras. The one I rode on was from 1912. It was a blast.

[@Tflexxx02]

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has a subway (underground/metro) museum of historic rolling stock. Located in the city, you can take the NY City subway to it. For special occasions, they sometimes take some the historic cars out onto the regular subway system tracks.

[@Nightmare_Elf]

At 5:24, this bus "Col de Villefranche - Mont Boron" is possibly an old bus from Nice, PACA. This line was operated untill they changed all the lines in september 2019.

[@zanelindsay1267]

What a great find! A nice collection of vintage equipment which will hopefully grow into a more accessible venue. Another terrific tour of trains and trams by Tim Traveller. I noticed a notice inside one tram, "defense de fumer et de cracher." I recall seeing vintage signs to that effect in Australian transit situations; apparently public spitting had to be pointedly called to task.

[@thevoid5503]

3:41 Happy memories ! I used to take the line 12 to the beach or the station all the time !

[@azahel542]

I was about to say "how come I've never heard about this?" I guess I gotta use the transport to visit the transport museum

[@DaveTexas]

Yay! New Tim videos have become one of life’s great pleasures for me. Always fascinating, always entertains, always pedantic - which is the best way to be! Tim is the best narrator on KZbin, too, and you get fun, exciting music as a bones. It just doesn’t get better than this.

[@b_altmann]

These old French buses are very charming to look at. I love the slightly crazy designs. Although London has a Transport Museum, you have to travel to Acton Depot to see the buses - and lots of signs and a few tube trains. But the most special thing is that the old buses are just sleeping. One time, during a major strike when almost no buses were running, they just got lots of antique buses out and put them into service. That was just spectacular. It was a foggy morning and seeing a Green Line single decker from the 50s emerge from the fog was special.

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

2:22 "possibly the greatest collection of French municipal buses anywhere on planet earth" "possibly"? Is this a hotly contested title?

[@TTHBLOX_]

Whenever you get back to the Netherlands. Please go to the dutch railroad museum. "Spoorwegmuseum" its really fun. And has plenty to do in attractions/expos depicting the entire history of the railroad

[@wariussan571]

If you want a car museum in France, we have the Musée Automobile Reims Champagne in Reims, 45 minutes from Paris.

[@richardbloemenkamp8532]

If you can get there in 45 minutes then you are probably starting from the very east of Paris in a race car at night. But I liked the museum even if it took me a bit longer and adding a visit to a Champagne house.

[@schaulinnoam]

The Cité du Train in Mulhouse is also worth a visit. It's the heritage museum of SNCF and houses *a ton* of french trains from all areas. They also have one of the old Parisian metros.

[@maus3454]

3:34 nice a The Hague PCC car tram. I use to travel often these trams when I was young

[@lordsleepyhead]

Tim, your videos about urban transit and urban oddities are my absolute favourite! Please never stop making these videos, you are my #1 France urban transit youtuber and I love the flair you put into your videos!

[@Marc_NL666]

The best back ground song ever when talking about the Dutch tram!! Ow ow Den Haag, mooie stad achter de duinen.. :) :). Big kudos to you Tim for finding that one out!

[@JoshDoesTravel]

3:38 For US viewers, if you want to ride that tram’s sibling, come to the National Capital Trolley Museum outside of Washington, DC. They have that exact kind of tram, plus dozens others on display and operating on their railroad

[@SeventhSwell]

Thank you for taking us to another fun place. I needed that more than I thought today.

[@Jupter1]

I have been in the RATP depot in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges on "journée du patrimoine" in 2015. It was great. If you have the opportunity do not miss it. I do not remember that you had to book in advance, but that might have changed. They have a lot of RATP buses and metros there, and as RER B is also partly run by RATP, they also have an old train from this line.

[@vizzwizz]

thank u for not stretching the vid to 8m, the minimum midroll length. this is (one reason) why your chanel is heading for the stratosphere. seems most youtubers haven't even got the memo that it's been 8m since 2018, so they still stretch vids to 10m

[@topliner9534]

Many years ago, 1983 to be exact, this collection was in St. Mande, just over the border from Paris and easily accessible by Metro line 8 or bus 46. I visited it then, and I still have the guidebook which is full of pictures that look very much like your video. It's too bad they lost that space, it was a great museum.

[@william2william]

You should come to the San Francisco Bay Area and visit the Pacific Bus Museum in Fremont California.

[@GiacomodellaSvezia]

Pedant's comment on the Dutch tram (line 11): the HTM's rail gauge allowed actual (but small) freight trains to get to Scheveningen harbour until it fell into disuse in the seventies or eighties.

[@neilbain8736]

A neighbour spent his student days in the 60's in Paris and knew these open rear deck buses well. They were great in summer. I think they lasted till the 1980's. The Sprague Thompson's did on the Metro.

[@christopherhunter2892]

The museum used to be in Saint Mandé, a suburb in the south of Paris. I remember visiting in 1997 and travelling on the vintage Paris bus. The layout was very much as in your video.

[@Eddyspeeder]

6:24 Oh look, those even are the original horses!

[@candvand]

Tim, if you’re ever in California, the San Francisco cable car barn is a must see. It has lots of history, but even better, it has the actual cables that pull the cars!

[@jy6283]

In the 70th, 80th, that museum use to be in St-Mandé near the porte doré in a former tram depot ans they were normally open every week-end. I'm glad to see that they managed to find a way to keep to museum going, even if it's open only on the third Saturday of every month. The RATP métro collection was even on display at that time. It's too bad that the RATP did take back there ventage collection especialy since that collection is not even accessible to the public.

[@Quasihamster]

Most of these musuems are run by volunteers as a hobby, that's why they're only open on one weekend a month. Same with the tram museum in my city. First Sunday of each month.

[@Retroscoop]

1:57 and a glimpse of an interesting blue sports car on the background, maybe a Matra ? Next to it, a 2 CV....

[@tetu310]

I don’t know why but watching your videos makes me smiling and kind of lighthearted every time :) Thanks a lot for that in these hard times. Wish I could go to the MTU sometime!

[@Morall332]

My sister lives in Chelles! It was pretty surreal to see a RER station that I know so well in one of your videos...

[@erictremblay4940]

I visited this museum at their previous location (at the Saint-Mandé depot) in the mid 90s. That place was huge, and the whole collection was shown. Like this one, there was no publicity whatsover and you had to dig to know about it. If I recall, it was only open one or two days a week (better than currently). I was about the only visitor that day, and was able to talk to the museum's curator for up to an hour! (There was only like two employees/volonteers total at the time...). Thanks for this excellent video!! Eric Montréal, Québec. (I'm chasing transport museums everywhere I go)

[@NickBurman]

The museum used to be located in Saint Mandé, a stone's throw away from the Bois de Vincennes. AFAIK it was housed in a former RATP bus depot; when RATP asked the society who ran it to return the property they had to leave for the suburbs.

[@coastaku1954]

Toronto has a Streetcar Museum, located in Milton, a suburb about 40mins away from Downtown, lies the Halton County Radial Railway. Built on an old section of a trolley line that went from Toronto to Guelph, it has lots of vehicles on display in it's car barn, including old streetcars, trolleys, suburban trolleys, buses and 3 subway trains. On the outside, it has a few old stations across the line and rides on old streetcars and an old Suburban electric train, I think that one was part of the London and Port Stanley Railway but I might be mistaken. I wish Southern Ontario still had Electric Trains though. It's a really cool museum and it's all volunteer run.

[@kasparvg]

Funny thing, in the Oslo transport museum, they have hooked up an old metro car to a train simulator. You use the throttle and brake in the cab to drive along line 1, or, Holmenkollbanen, which goes up past the Ski Centre and Ski Jump Hill.

[@peterbechard1900]

Tim. Great to see you are able to get out and about. Sadly the recent flooding is just terrible and sadly devastating for so many. I was wondering if you may share your thoughts on the floods and put a more human perspective on what has happened. My wife and I really love your videos and perspective. We wish you all the best.

[@robertmcduck6712]

1:55 Love the the fact that in the backround there's a blue Citroën 2cv and a light blue Panhard 24. And i love it because this museum is allready about public transport and the 2cv was a mobliser for where there was no public transport. (Edited for obvious insult.)

[@creesch]

If you ever get out of France again you really should visit the Berlin "Deutsche Technik museum" to see how a museum you describe could look like and a whole lot more. I mean they have an aircraft hanging over the roof, lots of trains, boats, other technical stuff (figures) and also an old beer brewery on the premise.

[@adamwalding4447]

That french version of the On the Buses theme tune at 02:37 is Tim's best masterstroke of suitable music yet

[@cllris]

Things I appreciated on top of the usual fantastic video content. Your rendition of Playdays. Your district line mask. 👌

[@insom_anim]

The only thing that comes to mind for transport museums in Paris proper would be the RATP headquarters near Gare de Lyon. I think they have a small exposition space in the lower floors with old rolling stock but to be fair I haven't been there yet.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

totally get the space issue for these museums. In Denmark, when the last steam engines were decommissioned in the 60s, it was decided that they had to keep one runnable sample of each model and a railway museum was set up in the big roundhouse in Odense. While that place is pretty big, trains take up a lot of space and the building just isn't big enough, so they have to store trains and wagons in various sheds all over the country and every year move equipment back and forth to swap out what's on display at the museum. They're supposed to take over an old freight yard that's no longer used so they can centralize where they keep all the equipment, but museums for any kind of vehicle really requires an awful lot of space

[@christopherbonham527]

I was lucky enough to be in Paris over the Easter weekend and was able to visit the museum on its first open Saturday of the year. Thank you to the team who run the place, especially one of the gents who took the trouble to approach me and give me a tour and answer my questions in English (alas I speak little to no French).

[@cakemartyr5794]

This is brilliant, as ever. Thanks. I stumbled across a volunteer run transport exhibition when I was in Berlin a few years ago. Was on very similar lines (no pun intended!), opened one day a month. Couldn't believe my luck when I found that. Wish I could remember where it was exactly.

[@sepez]

6:35 'Le Megabus' sounds like what someone would say when pretending to be french haha

[@camillesayous1532]

I think the "TIM" bus comes from my hometown of Morlaix (in Bretagne), TIM was the name of the transportation company a little while back (now it's called Lineotim apparently). I'm a little mind blown 😳 How did it get there? Hope you get a chance to visit Morlaix (a dying city with a nice bridge) and the Baie de Morlaix (absolutely beautiful!)

[@LoïcCoenen-g4v]

Aw j'était là la semaine passée. J'adore morlaix en vrai, je m'y suis fais des copains tout les jours ahah

[@earthtoskymodelworks9952]

What a magnificent collection and a terrific museum. Thanks for making this video and ALL your videos. I eagerly await each one! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@dancedecker]

Thanks Tim. Excellent as always. I visited the museum when it was at a previous site. It was excellent, but it had some British exhibits which it now doesn't have. A Glasgow tram which I think is back in Scotland and an AEC RT," Summer Holiday" bus, which I think also got thrown back over the channel. Can't imagine why they'd do that!! Oh hold on...I DO remember. There was a brand new Berliet- Renault double decker bus there that looked like it was being launched. The " old and the new", sort of deal, which is quite common. Nope. The curator told me, "Non. It ees an exhibeet". I asked why as it looked superb. He agreed. He said..".Joost look at eet. ". No one would ever use zem. Zey got scrapped, except zis one". I asked why, again.?. "Eet iz simpull. It just looks ....too British." We are mad.. but we hate you SO much, they'd wait an hour in the rain for an old draughty wooden seated single decker, than EVER set foot on that totally French built, but British looking, double decker. He agreed they were all NUTS!! I shook my head and walked away. True story.

[@ThijsHaenen]

Delighted to catch a few bars of "Oh, oh Den Haag" in the soundtrack as well :)

[@unixnut]

I love this. One of the funniest AND most informative AND most heart-warming videos I've ever seen!

[@AnnabelSmyth]

If we are ever allowed to go to France again, that's definitely on my bucket list. Actually, I love amtuir's website - it is a real time sink, it's really, really good. Next best thing to being there.....

[@jetaddicted]

Pretend you’re Irish, you’ll have your chances 😉

[@leverettrailfan5414]

What's quite interesting about the yellow tram (I see it's already been noted by others in the comments) is that the design is quite an interesting thing from a historic viewpoint- it represents the final chapter in the history of the USA's attempt to bring the streetcar into the modern era. I highly recommend learning about the history of the President's Conference Committee streetcar. They were unable to win the fight against the shift away from electrified public transit, but the design and technology has left a legacy, and they were overall highly successful. Many outlasted their expected service lives, entering service in the 40s and early 50s, and remaining in use until as late as the mid 80s. The more modern Light Rail Vehicles that replaced them even took some inspiration from their successful design, especially obvious on the TTC's CLRV and the MBTA's Type 7 LRV.

[@GeographyWorld]

MTU is also Munster Technological University in Cork and Kerry in Ireland.

[@QemeH]

MTU is also the Maximum Transmission Unit, the size of the largest packet a network protocol can transmit

[@kabochaVA]

I thought it would be in Münster, Germany...

[@GeographyWorld]

@@kabochaVA Munster is also the name of one of the 4 provinces of Ireland.

[@jenskoch8868]

@@kabochaVA or Munster, Germany...?

[@kabochaVA]

@@jenskoch8868 If you want to remove the "umlaut", don't you need to write it as: Muenster?

[@chrisoddy8744]

I wonder if the hovertrains in the Jean Bertin collection, and the mystery Citirama bonkers bus could both join this collection...!

[@pocketdynamo5787]

Have you been to the Technikmuseum Berlin? It's great! Lot's of different forms of transportation displayed there, too. Ships of all eras, cars, trains, planes... You name it!

[@HenrysAdventures]

Looks like a fantastic museum. Shame it has limited opening! I'm surprised Paris dosn't have something more central. Take, Budapest its got at least 4 railway/transport museums, The Children's Railway and a huge model railway right in the centre. That said I've heard there's a secret model railway under Gare de l'est Station which has limited opening!

[@glenatkinson1230]

We have the Upper Canada Railway Society museum for Toronto about an hour west (75 km or so) west of the city. Functional TTC vintage trans, static subway trains.

[@mattgeer-composer2495]

This is so interesting! I live in London and love the London Transport Museum so much. Two years ago I visited the Musée de l'air et de l'espace which is absolutely astonishing. It's right next to the Paris-Le Bourget Airport and so you can sit and watch all of the private airplanes take off too!

[@anatoleh1]

Hey Tim! You should definitely check out the Cité du Train in Mulhouse, if I recall correctly they have some Paris metros there… and so much more!

[@marcvanderlinden7618]

Thanks for such a lovely video. Having told to self-isolate for 10 days, there was a glimpse of the many things to visit in the (near) future!

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

Eeeeek that bus!!! Just amazingly cool. All the buses! Thanks for sharing this video/adventure with me, much appreciated. 🙂🐿

[@_JoyceArt]

If you ever find yourself in the Netherlands, I can highly recommend the Louwman Museum in The Hague. Such a beautiful museum of cars. If you’re more interested in trains, then the “Spoorweg Museum” is also a good one.