Comments on: Going, going, gone. With the final TTC H6 run taking place today (Friday June 20th 2014), it’s only fitting to dig out a few shots of the ol’ tin-cans in action. Employing some “zoom-panning” for this shot, H6 car 5814 trails a westbound train zipping out of Sherbourne subway station, bound for the busy Bloor-Yonge stop down the line. Built in 1985-1989 by Urban Transportation Development Corporation Ltd (in a partnership with Hawker Siddeley Canada known as “Can Car Rail”) and easily identifiable by their orange doorways and yellow velor seats, the 126 H6 cars were just the next iteration of the Hawker Siddeley “RT-75″ subway car design (dating back to the early-mid 60′s) and occupied the 5810-5935 number block after the H5 cars. Known as the least-reliable of the fleet due to a few issues, they spent virtually all their lives operating on the Bloor-Danforth subway line out of Greenwood Yard. An option for more new Bombardier Toronto Rocket cars was exercised to replace the aging H6′s. Initially a deal was signed to sell a group of 255 H5 and H6 cars to Nigeria for a new rail transit system in Lagos, but the deal was reduced to a smaller group of H5′s, with all the other cars bound for local scrapyards.

By: Peter Newman

Peter Newman — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:04:07 +0000

Wonderful!