[PRCo] Re: Fwd: PCCs in red and cream

[Bill Robb]

I don't believe there were any conductors after the Yonge and Bay lines were replaced with the Yonge Subway.  But if you were riding a large Witt there may have been a conductor's booth on the car.  The large Witts disappeared before the small Witts, but some of the large Witts were still around in 1960.
Bill Robb

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I too got to ride them circa 1960.  I think it was a Kingston Rd. tripper on Queen St.  For some reason there is an impression that it was a two man car?????  Was Toronto still using conductors in 1960???

I would have been about 14 at the time.  Mother took the kids with her to Oakville to visit a friend from the war years.  Couple times rode CN into Toronto.  Remember the first trip walking from Union Station and starting to run for a Dupont car.  Was told to stop running - another car would be along shortly.  That was my introduction to 3 minute off peak headways, as opposed to 20 minutes in Pittsburgh.    

During the following days, the 'game' was to zig-zag across Toronto, trying to maximize the potential use of a transfer.

That was also the summer that my father took me on Greyhound bus to Cleveland to ride Shaker and the rapid.  We also rode a trackless line.   Wonder if I took a snapshot of the trackless???

J





> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:08:46 -0800> From: hrbran at sbcglobal.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fwd: PCCs in red and cream> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > I was able to ride the TTC Peter Witts (Small Witts) on a Thanksgiving (U.S.) trip in 1962. I remember it quite well. The cars ran during the peak periods only and both times I rode them I had to stand most of the route. > Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote: Nice Toronto pictures from Bill Robb. They remind me of my earlier > trips to Toronto. Sadly I never got there in time to see the Witts > in schduled K-Road tripper service> > Herb Brannon> > 
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