TT Archive - Toronto's Last PCC

[@transittoronto]

Before anybody else says it, one mistake crept into this video: when we said PCC 4779 was the highest number assigned to any streetcar in Toronto, we are of course forgetting ALRV 4900 -- UTDC's prototype which operated in the city for a few months in the late 1980s. Ah, well.

[@argopunk]

Cool! Glad I donated. And I work close to Bay and College. Interesting to see at 8:50 Eaton's College Street before they tore down the one-storey section to build College Park. Glad they saved the main building. I remember accompanying my mom at that Eaton's location right before it closed along with Eaton's Queen St as The Eaton Centre store opened at Dundas in '77. Downtown was a gritty place back then.

[@ForestBunz]

Really fantastic! I'm not a transit/train buff, but I love the vintage TO footage!

[@dbolt6543]

IIRC the Kansas City cars were the only Toronto PCCs were it was impossible to isolate the traction motors on one truck. If you had a traction motor issue the car was dead. On the other cars you could isolate the motors on one truck and limp home on the reamaining two motors.

[@PoliticalCineaste]

Was this transferred from 8/S8 mm or 16mm film?

[@transittoronto]

16mm film.