Comments on: For a time, every day was the 1970′s in Spadina Subway Station. The original decor with brown, red and yellow earth tones were always in abundance, and the 70′s-era H5 subway trains were flowing like bad disco music out of some Yonge Street venue on a Friday night. TTC H5 5733 leads a northbound Yonge-University-Spadina line train out of Spadina for Downsview. After the H4′s, the H5 cars were next in line to be retired by new Toronto Rocket (TR) subway trains. 5733 would be retired in November 2012 and one of the cars shipped to Buffalo NY for overhaul for EKO Rail in Lagos, Nigeria, but later scrapped when they decided to purchase new cars instead.

By: Driver8666

Driver8666 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:09:43 +0000

That too.

MrDan — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:53:20 +0000

And if sitting underneath them at the ends, one would notice the AC would sometimes briefly cut out when track power was interrupted.

Driver8666 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:55:55 +0000

The one memory I have of the H5′s, that musty AC smell to them that you could not get rid of.