Toronto subway and RT rolling stock
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The Toronto Transit Commission has a fleet of:
- 678 subway cars for the Yonge-University-Spadina, Bloor-Danforth, and Sheppard lines (372 of which are accessible)
- 56 subway work cars
- 28 Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit cars for the Scarborough RT line
- 6 RT work cars
Here is a list of rapid transit vehicles used by the TTC since 1954:
Contents |
[edit] Subway trains
[edit] Current
| Make/Model | Description | Fleet size | Year acquired | Year retired | Notes 1 | Notes 2 |
| Hawker-Siddeley Canada RT75 H4 | Subway car | 88 | 1974-1975 | When the H5 subway cars move to the Bloor-Danforth Line for 2-3 years.* | 50 out of the 88 remain active:
5580-5681, 5600-5601, 5602-5603, 5604-5605, 5606-5607, 5608-5609, 5610-5611, 5622-5623, 5624-5625, 5626-5627, 5630-5631, 5632-5633, 5638-5639, 5640-5641, 5642-5643, 5644-5645, 5646-5647, 5648-5649, 5650-5651, 5652-5653, 5654-5655, 5656-5657, 5658-5659, 5660-5661, 5662-5663. |
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| Hawker-Siddeley Canada RT75 H5 | Subway car | 138 | 1976-1979 | When next order of cars is in service* | 5721, 5755 are retired; 5720* is paired with 5754. (now renumbered to 5754-5755). | 5796: T1 prototype in December 1990. |
| Urban Transportation Development Corporation RT75 H6 | Subway car | 126 | 1986-1989 | 2016? | (Will be converted to be wheelchair accessible during maintenance) | |
| Bombardier Transportation RT75 T1 | Subway car | 372 | 1996-2002 | N/A | All wheelchair accessible  |
5344, 5345: "T35A08" mockup cars in June 2006. |
The current subway fleet consists primarily of the T1 cars and H5 and H6 cars. ALL of the H4 and H5 cars will be retired as more of the new cars enter service in the future or wear out.
Before the H5 Cars are retired, they may run on the Bloor - Danforth Line for three years to replace the H4 cars.[citation needed]
Denotes vehicles specifically designed to be wheelchair-accessible (though level boarding platforms allow a degree of access to all trains).
[edit] Retired
All Gloucester and MLW cars have been retired, as well as most early H-series cars (H1-3).
| Make/Model | Description | Fleet size | Year acquired | Year retired | Notes |
| Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company G1, G2, G3, and G4 | Subway car | 140 | 1953-59 | 1990 | pair 5098-5099 sent to the Halton Radial Railway Museum in Milton, Ontario |
| Montreal Locomotive Works M1 | Subway car | 36 | 1962 | 1999 | pair 5300-5301 sent to the Halton Radial Railway Museum in Milton, Ontario |
| Hawker-Siddeley Canada RT75 H1 | Subway car | 164 | 1965-66 | 1999 | all disposed, but a few became non-revenue cars: RT-9 (ex-5374), RT-10 (ex-5375), RT-38, RT-39 |
| Hawker-Siddeley Canada RT75 H2 | Subway car | 76 | 1970-71 | 2002. | 5500-5505 equipped with experimental Hitachi chopper controls and regenerative braking
and reclassed as H-3 in 1973; converted back to H-2 between September 1984 and April 1985. |
| Hawker-Siddeley Canada RT75 H4 | Subway car | 88 | 1974 | Retired: 5576-5577, 5576-5579, 5582-5583, 5584-5585, 5586-5587, 5588-5589, 5590-5591,
5592-5593, 5594-5595, 5596-5597, 5598-5599, 5612-5613, 5614-5615, 5616-5617, 5618-5619, 5620-5621, 5628-5629, 5634-5635, 5636-5637. |
50 remain in service; of them, 44 are rebuilt. |
| Hawker-Siddeley Canada RT75 H5 | Subway car | 138 | 1976-1980 | 5721, 5755 are retired; all others remain active until next order of trains is in service |
[edit] Future: Toronto Rocket (T35A08)
The "Toronto Rocket" is the official name for the TTC's future trains; "T35A08" is the public codename used. To pick a new name, the TTC conducted a 'Name the New Subway Train Contest', with the winning name announced on October 13, 2006 from over 3,000 submissions. [1] Beginning June 6, 2006, the TTC began displaying a mock-up of the new train at various stations; this ended on July 21, 2006.
For their future fleet of 234 cars, the TTC are considering abandoning their strategy of building their trains from married pairs of identical cars, and purchasing permanent six-segment articulated units similar to the model of Bombardier's Movia metro train used by the Shenzhen Metro. These will have only two driver booths/cabs per train which will be stretching the width of the subway car, The TTC official on duty during the mock-up had reported complaints about the look-out window at the front which will be blocked off. The new trains will feature a visible and automated audible stop/station announcement system, allow passengers to walk between cars to provide increased capacity, reduce noise, and simplify operations. The original plan was to make all seats unpadded, plastic benches that would be parallel to the outside wall; due to the bad reaction from the public on this proposed change, this idea has since been scrapped, and the seats in the new trains will be almost identical to those of the T1 trains. Accessible seats will be doubled in the new cars, allowing for 12 locations per train for special needs commuters. Construction would be welded rather than riveted to reduce building costs and increase aerodynamics. The first of the new trains is scheduled to be delivered in 2009. Deliveries for the new subway trains will be finished by the end of 2011. The new trains will be found on the Yonge-University-Spadina line.[2] A walk through of the new designs released by Bombardier can be found here.
[edit] Scarborough RT trains
| Make/Model | Description | Fleet size | Year acquired | Year retired | Notes |
| UTDC ICTS (CCR) - LRV Mark I | RT car | 28 | 1982-83 | replacement pending on future of line | |
| ST-1 centre-cab diesel locomotive | RT workcar | 1 | |||
| ST-2 non-motored crane and rail maintenance car (ST-2) | RT workcar | 1 | |||
| ST-3, ST-6 non-powered rail grinding trucks | RT workcar | 2 | |||
| ST-5 non-powered power rail cleaner and de-icer | RT workcar | 1 | |||
| ST-4 non-powered snow blower | RT workcar | 1 | installed on a P.C.C. truck |
[edit] Work vehicles
Most subway work cars are painted yellow with the fleet # as RTXX. The exception are converted subway cars, which are not repainted (strips added) and have the RT fleet # replacing their former fleet #.
[edit] Current subway work vehicles
| Fleet # | Description | Year acquired | Year retired |
| RT1 | Rail maintenance car | built 1909 | |
| RT2 | Flat car | built 1997 | |
| RT3 | Overhead maintenance car | built 1922 | |
| RT4 | Track re-insulation car | built 1997 | |
| RT5 | Tunnel leak repair (grout) car | built 1997 | |
| RT6 | Vacuum cleaning car | built 1922 | |
| RT7 | Diesel loco | built 1997 | |
| RT8 | Train of 13 rail delivery articulated bogies | built 1997 | |
| RT9 | Works Services Car, ex H1 5350 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT10 | Works Services Car (ex-garbage car unit), ex H1 5374 | conv. 2000 Hawker Siddeley Canada | replaced old RT10 (Tokyo Rose from Nippon Sharyo 1968) |
| RT11 | Non motored | built 2000 by Arva Industries | |
| RT12 | Electric loco | built 1968 | replaced by new R12 by Arva Industries |
| RT13 | Centre cab crane | built 1968 by Nippon Sharyo | |
| RT14-15 | Mk III snow clearing by Arva Industries | ||
| RT16 | Tunnel washer | built 1996 – used with RT17 by Arva Industries | |
| RT17 | Tunnel washer | built 1996 – used with RT16 by Arva Industries | |
| RT18 | Diesel loco | built 1977 by Anabel Corporation of Houston, Texas | |
| RT19 | Crane | built 1980 | |
| RT20 | Flat car and crane | built 1980 by Niigata Transys Company and crane by Arva Industries | |
| RT21 | Flat car | built 1980 by Niigata Transys Company | |
| RT22 | Flat car | built 1973 by Nippon Sharyo | |
| RT23 | Non motored asbestos abatement car, ex H1 5391 | conv. 1984 | |
| RT26 | Gauge car | built 1980 | |
| RT27 | Beam transporter and crane | built 1986 | |
| RT28 | Flat car w/ crane | built 2000 by Arva Industries | |
| RT29 | Flat car | built 2001 by Arva Industries | |
| RT30 | Non motored grinding truck | built 1988 | |
| RT31 | Non motored grinding truck | built 1988 | |
| RT32 | Non motored grinding truck | built 1988 | |
| RT33 | Non motored grinding truck | built 1988 | |
| RT35 | Grinding train, ex G2 5103 | conv. 1988 Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company | |
| RT36 | Grinding train, ex G1 5068 | conv. 1991 Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company | |
| RT38 | Ex-garbage car unit, ex H1 5422 | conv. 1997 Hawker Siddeley Canada | |
| RT39 | Ex-garbage car unit, ex H1 5423 | conv. 1997 Hawker Siddeley Canada | |
| RT40 | Ballast car | built 1989 | |
| RT41 | Tie tamper car | built 1993 by Plasser American | |
| RT42 | Scaffold car | built 1999 Arva Industries | |
| RT43 | Asbestos abatement crew car, ex H1 5459 | conv. 2000 Hawker Siddeley Canada | |
| RT44 | Asbestos abatement crew car, ex H1 5458 | conv. 2000 Hawker Siddeley Canada | |
| RT45 | Asbestos abatement garbage car, ex H1 5337 | conv. 2000 Hawker Siddeley Canada | |
| RT46 | Asbestos abatement garbage car, ex H1 5336 | conv. 2000 Hawker Siddeley Canada | |
| RT47 | Flat car | built 1999 | |
| RT48 | Motored snow blower | built 2001 by Arva Industries | |
| RT49 | Motored snow blower | built 2001 by Arva Industries | |
| RT50 | Non motored snow blower | built 1999 | |
| RT51 | Non motored snow blower | built 1999 | |
| RT52 | Non motored snow blower | built 1999 | |
| RT53 | Non motored snow blower | built 1999 | |
| RT54 | Flat car | built 1973, previously RT16 or RT17 | |
| RT55 | |||
| RT56 | Vacuum rodder car | built 2004/2005 by Arva Industries | |
| old RT57 | Works Service Car ex H4 5634Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT57 | General Purpose Rail Flat Car Arva Industries | ||
| RT58 | Works Service Car, ex H4 5635 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT60 | Works Service Car, ex H4 5636 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT61 | Works Service Car, ex H4 5637 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT62 | Works Service Car, ex H4 5616 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT63 | Works Service Car, ex H4 5617 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT64 | Works Service Car, ex H4 5594 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT65 | Works Service Car, ex H4 5595 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT66 | Works Service Car, ex H? 5??? Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT67 | Works Service Car, ex H? 5??? Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT68 | Fibre Optics testing, ex H1 5408 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT69 | Fibre Optics testing, ex H1 5409 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| RT70 | Flat car, built 2005 | ||
| 5386 | Fibre Optics testing, ex H1 5386 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| 5387 | Fibre Optics testing, ex H1 5387 Hawker Siddeley Canada | ||
| N/A | Tri-Mode Work Locomotive Arva Industries | ||
| LPC1 | locomotive |
- note* RT35 and RT36 are mixed matched (2004).
[edit] Retired
| Fleet # | Description | Year acquired | Year retired |
| N/A | Duncan’s Dragon - test car for 75-foot subway cars (all subway cars H1-H6 and T1) - built at the Duncan Shops [3] | 1964 | 1965? |
| RT10 - Tokyo Rose from Nippon Sharyo | garbage car unit | 1968 | 2000; replace by current RT10 |
[edit] References
- ^ "Toronto Rocket" A Train With A New Name
- ^ globeandmail.com: Technology
- ^ Coupler - March history - Remembering the fabled Duncan’s Dragon
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