Halton County Radial Railway
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The Halton County Radial Railway is a working museum of electric streetcars, other railway vehicles, and buses. It is operated by the Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association. It is focused primarily on the history of the Toronto Transit Commission, with a collection including PCC, and Peter Witt, and earlier streetcars, and Gloucester- and Montréal-built subway trains.
The museum is open to the public, who can take rides on many of its vehicles. It is located between Rockwood and Milton in Ontario, Canada, along part of the Toronto Suburban Railway’s former right-of-way. Their tracks are built to the TTC’s wider-than-standard rail gauge of 1495 mm. Vehicles from other systems must be altered to accommodate its tracks, and ones intended for third-rail power must be reconfigured for use with overhead wire.
Peter Witt streetcars belonging to the museum can be seen 2005 film Cinderella Man, in which they were operated on the streets of Toronto in order to complete its transformation into New York in the 1930s (photo of a streetcar repainted for the film).
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 Montreal & Southern Counties 107 |
 Chicago streetcar-derived metro train 48 (original design planned for the Toronto subway) |
 Several trolleybuses including this ex-Hamilton model are also preserved |
 Toronto Civic Railways 55 is one of the few surviving Preston-built cars |
 This Peter Witt streetcar has been restored into the TTC’s original 1921 livery |
 Car 327 is a 1930s replica of the original 1890s vehicle |
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