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| Keywords: Impending street car crash! 2013-02-26 -abcd.jpg I was with an impatient friend or I would have taken more pictures of this incident These two streetcars approached the intersection of Church and Richmond from either direction Streetcars use Church when they short-turn -- it hasn't had regular passenger service for about fifty or sixty years Similarly Richmond's tracks are used for short turns What we see here is that both streetcars started to turn west onto Richmond at the same time One streetcar was ringing its bell like crazy Both cars were going forward -- but at a snail's pace Some of the switches are completely manual The driver has to get out and use a very long metal lever to pry the switch from one track to the other drive through the switch stop again and go back and reset it to straight through Other switches however seem to be smart enough to know when to set in one direction or another I was a teenager when I first saw mockups of what were then called the UTDC cars and are now called the CLRV They gradually replaced the TTC's PCC President's Conference Cars -- lovely graceful vehicles that dated back to the 1930s The TTC keeps two in operating condition and they can be rented for special events I still think of these UTDC cars as the new streetcars -- when they are approaching the end of their operating life and will start to be replaced in 2014 Various companies tried to prepare more modern replacement for aging PCC fleets Boston Philadelphia and San Francisco used the next generation American designed vehicles which seem to have been dreadful failures When the UTDC vehicles were designed it was hoped there would be sales to other cities There weren't -- which is a crying shame because I think they proved to be very robust reliable vehicles Of all the vehicles designed to replace the graceful PCC vehicles I think the UTDC vehicles were the one that most closely resembled the PCC vehicles The main weakness of these vehicles is that like the PCC vehicles and other vehicles designed at the same time they still have high floors making it impossible for people in wheelchairs to use them and hard for mothers with baby strollers or shoppers with granny carts to mount or dismount Modern vehicles like the Flexity Outlooks that will replace them have very low floors They will have ramps that can deploy from some of the doorways so wheelchairs strollers or carts can be rolled aboard This image was stitched from File Impending street car crash 2013-02-26 -a 10587906385 jpg 60px File Impending street car crash 2013-02-26 -b 10587888815 jpg 60px File Impending street car crash 2013-02-26 -c 10587985844 jpg 60px File Impending street car crash 2013-02-26 -d 10587966164 jpg 60px https //www flickr com/photos/55289779 N00/10586162975/ Impending street car crash 2013-02-26 -abcd 2013-02-26 12 16 https //www flickr com/people/55289779 N00 booledozer https //ticket wikimedia org/otrs/index pl Action AgentTicketZoom TicketNumber Ticket 2012092210003274 OTRS ticket 2012092210003274 cc-by-sa-2 0 booledozer http //flickr com/photos/55289779 N00/10586162975 2014-09-08 04 50 32 cc-by-sa-2 0 Photographs by Geo Swan Panoramics of Toronto Canadian Light Rail Vehicles in Toronto 2013 in Toronto Taken with Canon PowerShot A2000 IS Church Street Toronto Richmond Street Toronto Number 4127 on TTC vehicles Number 4039 on TTC vehicles ImageNote 1 4222 892 181 77 5608 1740 2 4039 ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 646 897 38 38 5608 1740 2 4127 ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 4414 1012 416 55 5608 1740 2 If one looks closely one can see rustmarks on the body of these thirty-plus year old vehnicles ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 1172 925 71 44 5608 1740 2 If one looks closely one can see rustmarks on the body of these thirty-plus year old vehnicles ImageNoteEnd 4 ImageNote 5 2130 1122 49 44 5608 1740 2 If one looks closely one can see rustmarks on the body of these thirty-plus year old vehnicles ImageNoteEnd 5 ImageNote 6 2185 1144 449 82 5608 1740 2 The wheels are on the right-hand turn track ImageNoteEnd 6 | ||||
