Patrick Smith Reg'd - Montreal 

Niagara Railway Museum - Niagara Falls       

 Electric City Trolley Museum  

Boston Street Railway Association -Boston       

This short video will be released at the Ottawa Train Expo. Details are still very tentative. Featuring a small collection of slides and film by John Mills and Bob Helprin.  Slides show some early history of Ottawa's streetcar system. A short film by John Mills shows the system in operation in the 50s. 

Originally released in 1985, this video focuses on Peter Witts in Toronto in the early 1940s to the 1960s.

When the TTC began in 1921, to combine the system new streetcars were ordered, to help streamline operations of what use to be various different operations. The majority of the cars came from Canadian Car and Foundry of Montreal, which licensed the design from J.G. Brill of Philadelphia. The TTC operated one of the largest fleets, a total of 575 cars, which included 350 motors, and 225 trailers.

The streetcar was designed by Peter Witts, a former Cleveland Street Railway comissioner.

 In 1938 the PCCs arrived and the Peter Witts days were numbered. Streetcar service using Peter Witts was reduced to rush-hour only service in 1952, as they were phased out, and PCCs were phased in. With the opening and expansion of the subway, and introdcution of the PCCs, Peter Witts were phased out over the next decade, until they were completely removed from day-to-day operation in 1963.

The first part of this presentation shows these cars in regular service in the 1950s and 1960s. Take a trip along the Bay Carline in 1942, and in 1963. John Mills & Jack Knowles founding fathers of the OREHA comment on John Mills 1950’s film of the line.  Narrated. 30 Minutes.

Part II focuses on 2766, the TTCs last remaining Peter Witt, and shows 2766 in tour tram service in the 1980s. As well as the 1988 CRHA Farewell charter. Narrated. 30 Minutes.

In Part III,  shows the Halton County Museum’s 50th Anniversary charter of Peter Witt 2766 and PCC 4549 in Toronto, on April 18, 2004. Not narrated. 75 min.

Narrated, color, Video by Ray Neilson. (135 minutes)

This video is a chronicle of 50 years of PCC’s running in Toronto. PCCs were introduced in Toronto in 1938. Multiple Unit operation began in 1949, and helped ease congestion as the subway was being built. By the 1950s, Toronto had the largest fleet in North America. The fleet slowly wethered away from the 1980s until finally being retired in November 1995. 

For 75 years, the TTC has provided safe, reliable, service to Toronto's riding public. Mike Filey introduces this two hour video, which hi-lites, from a fan point of view, the transit events that are the most fondly remembered. This video presentation is based the book of the same name, by Mike Filey.

For the 2010, this video was done almost from scratch. All the footage was re-digitized from John Mill's original film, and substituted over the original audio track. 

For 2011, this video comes with new cover artwork, new DVD artwork, and 8.5 by 14 fold out map of the NS&T system.

"Streetcars of Montreal" - The history and final years of the Montreal Tramways Company

20th Anniversary Edition - Two Disc Set