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4500 is a preserved PCC streetcar, built in 1951 by Canadian Car and Foundry and rebuilt by the TTC in 1989.  It is one of two PCC streetcars still in the TTC fleet, along with 4549, and it is shown on Lakeshore Blvd. West in downtown Toronto on Sept. 5, 2011.

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4500 was seen again at the Exhibition Loop on Sept. 5, 2011.  After the TTC retired the last of its PCC fleet in 1995, these two streetcars were kept for historic purposes.  Today, they are available for charter services and are used on the Harbourfront line along Queen’s Quay and Lakeshore Blvd. on Sundays during the summer months.

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4022 is a 1979 CLRV streetcar, shown on Dundas Street at Yonge Street in downtown Toronto on Sept. 3, 2006.  These streetcars were built by Hawker-Siddeley of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and delivered between 1979 and 1981.

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4056 is another 1979 CLRV streetcar, seen on Queen’s Quay near Spadina Avenue on August 7, 2001.  (Thumbnail only; no enlarged photo available)

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4073 is a 1980 CLRV, spotted on King Street on Sept. 3, 2006.

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4112 is another 1980 CLRV, shown loading riders on Dundas Street on Sept. 3, 2006.

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4139 is a 1981 CLRV streetcar, seen at Union Station on Sept. 5, 2011.

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4146 is another 1981 CLRV, spotted on Dundas Street in downtown Toronto on Sept. 3, 2006.

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4151 was seen on Carlton Street near Maple Leaf Gardens on August 9, 2001.

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4217 is a 1988 ALRV articulated streetcar, shown on Queen Street near Yonge Street on August 4, 2013.

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4223 is another 1988 ALRV streetcar, seen at the Exhibition Loop with 4500 on Sept. 5, 2011.

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4227 is shown resting at the Long Branch loop in Etobicoke on Sept. 4, 2006.  These streetcars were built by Canadian Car Rail Division of Kingston, Ontario, and the Urban Transit Development Corp. of Thunder Bay, Ont, and delivered in 1988 and 1989.

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4233 is seen on Queen Street outside the Eaton Centre on August 9, 2001.

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4237 is a 1988 ALRV, seen on Queen Street near St. Michael’s Hospital on Sept. 3, 2006.

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4237 was spotted again on Queen Street at Yonge Street in downtown Toronto on Sept. 3, 2006.

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4241 was seen on Queen Street near the Eaton Centre on August 4, 2013.

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4250 is a 1989 ALRV, shown on Queen Street West crossing University Avenue on September 6, 2009.

 

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