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Scarborough RT car donated to Toronto Zoo One of the 28 cars that was once part of the decommissioned Scarborough rapid transit line will soon have a new life as a station for the Toronto Zoo\u2019s new train ride. (TTC\/photo) <\/p>\nOne of the 28 cars that was once part of the decommissioned Scarborough rapid transit (RT) line will soon have a new life as a station for the Toronto Zoo\u2019s new train ride.<\/p>\n
The station with the former RT vehicle will be located within the zoo\u2019s Tundra Trek area, which has polar bears and arctic wolves, a zoo spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will for sure be the coolest station on site,\u201d Katie Gray said in an email to CP24 on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Toronto Transit Commission spokesperson Stuart Green said when the six-station, 6.4-kilometre Line 3 was decommissioned following the derailment of a southbound train near Ellesmere Station on July 24, 2023, the TTC considered options for its 28 cars, ranging from \u201cselling to scrapping them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSelling for parts or scrap or donation is how we dispose of all our old\/decommissioned vehicles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In the end, 24 of the vehicles were sold to the City of Detroit, which Green said \u201cexpressed a need for parts and made the best proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two cars were donated to the Halton Region Museum, while the other one was donated to the Toronto Zoo.<\/p>\n
The one train that was severely damaged in the derailment was scrapped, Green noted.<\/p>\n
Gray, of the zoo, said the blue RT vehicle won\u2019t likely be installed and open there for about a month. <\/p>\n
Its exact final spot is also still being determined, she said.<\/p>\n
Scarborough RT car donated to Toronto Zoo One of the 28 cars that was once part of the decommissioned Scarborough rapid transit line will soon have a new life as a station for the Toronto Zoo\u2019s new train ride. (TTC\/photo) <\/p>\n
The car destined for the Toronto Zoo departed from a TTC yard earlier today, the TTC said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last UTDC\/Bombardier\/Alstom Scarborough RT car (#3008) left the premises this morning and arrived at its new home…a place where many rare and exotic beasts dwell: the Toronto Zoo,\u201d a post on X read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the 28 cars that was once part of the decommissioned Scarborough rapid transit (RT) line will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-70439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}