A tweet from Councillor Josh Matlow (Ward 12) early Monday of a derelict Toronto streetcar has inspired interest from a generation which hardly knew them. Mr Matlow’s shot of Peter Witt car 2500 was taken in the Haliburton Highlands apparently on the Haliburton Scout Reserve. There seems little doubt that it was carted up there to serve as accommodation sometime after the Witt cars were retired and either scrapped or sold off in the 1950s. One of the many routes travelled daily was the St. Clair East and Mt. Pleasant line which looped at Eglinton and short-turned down at the site of Loring and Wyle Park at the corner of St. Clair and Mt. Pleasant. It was known then as the Moore Park Loop. Wendy Sisson’s wonderful shot of she and her friends at the site is an absolute treasure. Who has her head stuck through the headlight hole? Origin and history of the Peter Witt.
