#1925
Peter Witt (Toronto streetcar)
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Canadian Car and Foundry· from 1921· TTC version built from 1921 to 1923
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. The TTC's Peter Witt streetcar 2766 -a: Danielle Scott· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. HCRY-Peter-Witt-TTC-2984: DavidArthur· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Toronto version of the Peter Witt streetcar was designed by Peter Witt, a commissioner of the Cleveland Street Railway in the United States. Between 1921 and 1923, the Toronto Transportation Commission ordered a total of 350 Peter Witt motor cars. 225 trailers would be ordered from three companies in Canada: Canada Car and Foundry of Montreal, Ottawa Car Company and Preston Car Company (Brill).
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 105 years ago, in 1921.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1921
- in service from
- 1921
- number built
- 575
- kind
- tram / light rail
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Canadian Car and Foundry
- operators
- Toronto Transit Commission
- top speed
- —
- power
- 37 kW
- length
- 14.3 m
- weight
- 32.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7671938, Wikipedia: Peter Witt (Toronto streetcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.