Toronto Subway from the Beginning to Today Part I

[VincentKim1215]

@oween if those things never happened to you, well, then I think god saves you.

[oween5]

the m1 looks funky... but depressing in that light...

[VincentKim1215]

TTC is fucked up pretty bad

You can experience traffic on a subway line

Drivers ask you to leave the train due to freaking mechanical problem(which appears to be at least 2 times in a month) then you have to get on the next one which is full of people.

Trains stop at certain station to switch the driver. I understand that, but why are the fucking drivers never on time that train arrives on station? Why do passengers have to wait for lazy asshole drivers and wasting valuable time?

[oween5]

@VincentKim1215 ok... thats never happened to me... and although i have pretty recently started to take the ttc regularly (about 3 months now) ive never had to wait at a station for a long time except if its bloor/yonge station which always is open long (which i thought was to let more ppl on and off) and ive only once experience a problem that made a difference in my travel and i didnt even have to get out of the train

[beenie3]

Why did you show an inside pic of a Gloucester car that had fluorescent lighting??? THAT was not the traditional. Most of those cars had rounded incandescent lights that "blinked" on and off when the train hit dead areas of the third rail.

[308813062]

@beenie3 only pic i could find

[at1212b]

Cool! I remember the M1s.. they were the 'weridest' feeling of all the trains. When you sat by the window, it was so high.. and windows were very round.

And the 'AC' was worse than any of the others that came later.

[RetroKing85]

Didn't they run another type of train for a very short period of time in the 80s with circle shaped windows?

[308813062]

@RetroKing85 that was the tokyo rose, if that's what your talking about. it wasn't part of revenue service, it was used as a garbage train and was scrapped. i don't know that much about it, but you can look it up

[RetroKing85]

@308813062 Ah okay, thanks!

[mergatroidal]

@HELLOCHEW… What does New York have to do with Toronto? I suppose the information medallions on Toronto subway cars similar to the New York subway cars would be of no interest to you as an historical artifact. As a research lead to perhaps glean further subway history fun-fact info from, your Canadian sense of something is disturbed, instead, for little reason? What's up with your snotty attitude, pal?

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[Jeepred16]

Great video, even though there was no music.

[plane700]

2:17, that place has been boarded over now

[cookiemaster1234]

@plane700 is this between st.clair and summerhill?

[mergatroidal]

The newest New York subway cars have metal information plates inside some of the cars stating manufacturer, date of manufacture and delivery, ... find one on each of the different cars and picture post 'em, perhaps. Fun facts, 'ya know?

[HELLOCHEWY2]

@mergatroidal what does new york have to do with Toronto

[poly2300]

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