Hamilton Street Railway-Wentworth Garage and Barton Street, May 22, 1991

[carparthero]

awesome...my favorite buses were the 77 (ex. 7701) and the 88 (ex.8801) versions. sure don't miss those trolley buses. i like the hsr and it's an important part of hamilton!

[ShaunEboi523RatedR]

One day*

[ShaunEboi523RatedR]

A day before I was born.

[IncredableDrE]

@97SCT

Yeh I got a new seat but it is duscoloured and I got a buddy who knows how to remove the paint that I painted over the tagged parts and the grafeitted areas. I hope it works

[97SCT]

@IncredableDrE hope so too, i'd like to check it out. never came across an HSR Fishbowl before

[IncredableDrE]

@97SCT

Ya I do but it's been completely repainted because some little bastards broke into my barn and tagged it and burned some seats. I should have put the alarm on that day I locked up for the winter.

[97SCT]

@IncredableDrE yeah what little pricks they are, hope the damage can be fixed

[IncredableDrE]

Im sorry 7709

[97SCT]

@IncredableDrE have any video or pictures?

[IncredableDrE]

@bigzebb

Hey go to the halton county radial railway museum down the Guelph line, and you will find a very big surprise parked in the parking lot ;)

[IncredableDrE]

When the fishbowl buses of hsr were retired, I had called the same day and had a driver drive #7710 to my farm in it's original black and yellow and stainless colors. It is in my Newley built concrete barn and still drives to this day. No shit is stored in it

[bigzebb]

This takes me back, I worked as a security guard at the old Wentworth st garage and then at the new one. sad to see the trolleys gone now,

great post !

[Jovan9603]

WOW!! This is a great video HSR had a fleet of good buses back in the early days

[baul104]

Man, HSR had a lot of great buses back in the day including GM Articulated buses!

[kaizerzydeco]

They got those articulated buses from Ottawa. The pusher design was useless in the snow Ottawa gets. When in HSR use they still had some of their bilingual signage intact. This new garage was only used by trolley buses for a couple of years before the HSR scrapped them in favour of natural gas buses foisted on them by the province.  The NG buses were junk - what a waste! I loved the old Brills with the plywood doors and manual steering but the drivers probably didn't!

[TheDoggie89]

Great Video, takes me back to when Hamilton had a great fleet of buses and Trolley Buses. Do you have anymore videos like this one with some more trolley bus action?