TORONTO — Toronto’s transit agency is preparing to sell the rolling stock from its defunct Scarborough Rapid Transit line to Detroit, the CBC reports.
The Detroit Transportation Corp. has approved purchasing the equipment and parts for up to $1 million and would also cover the transportation costs, DTC General Manager Robert Cramer told the CBC. The equipment would be used on the Detroit’s People Mover, a 2.94-mile elevated, automated downtown rail system. Details remain to be worked out, he said: “We’re not talking about small things.”
Toronto Transit Commission spokesman Stuart Green told the CBC the deal would involve five trainsets. Two other trainsets will be retained for preservation.
The Scarborough line was shut down following a July derailment that saw one car detach from the rest of its four-car trainset and derail, sending five people to the hospital. The line had already been scheduled to close in November — it will eventually be replaced by a subway line slated to open in 2030 — and officials elected not to reopen it, given the amount of time it was going to take to complete a review of the derailment [see “Toronto’s Scarborough RT line will not reopen …,” Trains News Wire, Aug. 24, 2023]. The 6.4-kilometer (4-mile), six-station line was a technological orphan, not compatible with the rest of the Toronto subway system.
Green told the CBC that the rolling stock is in good condition, and that the problem in Scarborough was with the line’s track. The cars had been refurbished in 2015.
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