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‘Super Burger’ Toronto PCC car to be scrapped
You can get a good burger anywhere. You can’t have lunch in a PCC anywhere else. People won’t go out of their way to go there anymore.
The article is here and has a picture: http://www.orangeville.com/news-story/5813726-super-burger-s-antique-ttc-streetcar-to-vanish-from-shelburne-intersection/
I remember that Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, had back in the seventies built a mockup of a New York City Transit Authority subway car. It was located on fifth avenue and fifty-eighth street. It was called, “Where the posh go to nosh”. It didn’t last long.
Hopefully significant portions of the tram contents can be saved for posterity. Fortunately the Halton County Radial Railway Museum has several Toronto PCCs in good order and the TTC kept a couple from special services.
Two PCC tid bits:
-Two Toronton PCCs are in the process of being restored for operation on the McKinney Avenue Trolley Association line in Uptown Dallas, TX.
-In NW Philadelphia there is a PCC being used as an ice cream shop. It is simply called “Trolley Car Ice Cream Shoppe” located at: 7619 Germantown Ave Philadelphia, PA 19119.
I’ve eaten there, the burgers are good, but the PCC is pretty crummy. It’s been cut into in the front end, concrete has been used to mould other parts into it. Not worth saving. There used to be a PCC used as a farm stand north of Toronto on Bathurst street and Major Mackenzie? but that was scrapped (by a bulldozer) when the property was sold. There may still be one on Highway 6 north of Hamilton in a farmer’s field.
Maybe a good hot dog (hint: Sabrett’s) could be served from that NYC subway car in Queens. It failed as an information booth, but Sabrett has lots of experience with mobile hot dog stands. Just put some Goodyears on it…