| Posted by Annunziata |
3/2/2009 3:44 AM | remove |
Yes, they should have kept them red! Wow, they look so fancy that way.
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| Posted by Stewie |
3/2/2009 10:32 PM | remove |
Getting transit nerd here, but the first ones classified as G1 were red right until retirement. Only the subsequent classes (G2, G3, G4) were unpainted aluminum and weighed less. There was also an H1 car painted into an experimental red/black/gold paint.
Still, the Gloucester trains were awesome and I wish I could remember them. I was only 4 when they were retired.
Whole bunch of info on the stuff I just talked about here:
http://transit.tor.../subway/5501.shtml
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| Posted by Boffo |
3/2/2009 11:05 PM | remove |
My mom remembers the red subway cars. Crazy. I had no idea. I totally agree they should have stayed red, reminds me of the UK for some reason.
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| Posted by M. Fuzzy |
3/3/2009 1:45 AM | remove |
Teh Gloucesters! There's still 4 of these left on TTC property as retired work cars, and 2 at the Halton County Radial Ry museum.
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| Posted by Hi/Po |
3/3/2009 2:56 AM | remove |
You could also open the windows in those cars.
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| Posted by micro |
3/3/2009 7:50 PM | remove |
I thought you could still open the windows a little bit if you wanted to. Or am I thinking of something else? Also, I'm surprised no transit nerd has been able to tell us what station this is!
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| Posted by Boffo |
3/3/2009 8:45 PM | remove |
The conductor guy can at least... they always have their head out of the damn trains.
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| Posted by Hi/Po |
3/4/2009 7:24 PM | remove |
No, today's subways in Toronto do not have windows which can open.
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| Posted by micro |
3/5/2009 2:33 AM | remove |
Stupid me.. I was actually thinking of the streetcars and buses.
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| Posted by Stewie |
3/5/2009 2:42 AM | remove |
I think that's Union but I'm not 100% sure. The destination sign says Eglinton, so we're probably dealing with the original Union-Eglinton Yonge line. It's a centre island platform as well, which narrows the choices down to Union and Eglinton only. Finally, I believe that Eglinton always had white vitrolite tiles.
So... I'm gonna go with Union station, obviously Northbound.
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| Posted by Hi/Po |
3/14/2009 12:23 AM | remove |
It's impossible that it's Union: this link confirms it.
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| Posted by Stewie |
3/16/2009 9:51 AM | remove |
Don't you mean that the site confirms that it IS Union?
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| Posted by Air |
3/22/2009 11:15 PM | remove |
according to that diagram it could be main, or even keele.
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| Posted by Stewie |
3/24/2009 10:53 PM | remove |
Nope. Main and Keele don't have island platforms. The destination sign also belongs to the Yonge-University line (Spadina wouldn't have existed at the point when Eglinton was a terminus)
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| Posted by Hi/Po |
4/3/2009 9:01 PM | remove |
Yes, I meant that it has to be Union.
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| Posted by PartyPooper |
11/1/2009 5:23 AM | remove |
I think my dad has this exact same postcard!
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| Posted by Mutt |
3/18/2010 1:14 PM | remove |
I used to like riding in the Gloucester cars. They olny had one power pick up point I think. When the third rail would change the lights would go out sequencially down the whole train for a half second.
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| Posted by Mutt |
3/18/2010 1:19 PM | remove |
A great website, UK based, about the TTC`s Gloucester cars. Images include the cars being delivered by ship from the UK, and sadly being dismantled as well.
http://glostranspo.../grcwandTorSub.htm
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