page_title: Heritage streetcar
section_title: Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Heritage streetcar / Around the world / North America / Canada
caption_attribution_description: A Peter Witt streetcar in the 1921 livery of the Toronto Transit Commission, at the Halton County Radial Railway museum. The rollsigns are set as they would be if the car was operating on the Bathurst route as far as St. Clair Avenue, once its northern terminus.
context_page_description: Heritage streetcars or heritage trams are a part of the efforts to preserve rail transit heritage. In addition to preserving street-running rail vehicles, heritage streetcar operations can include upkeep of historic rail infrastructure. Working heritage streetcars are closely related to the growing global heritage railway movement and form a part of the living history of rail transport.
  As with modern streetcar systems, the vehicles are referred to as trams or tramcars in the United Kingdom, Australasia and certain other places, but as streetcars or trolleys in North America. The last two terms are often used interchangeably in the United States, with trolley being preferred in the eastern US and streetcar in Canada and the western US. In parts of the United States, internally powered buses made to resemble a streetcar are often referred to as "trolleys". To avoid further confusion with trolley buses, the American Public Transportation Association refers to them as "trolley-replica buses".
context_section_description: Heritage streetcar lines:
  Downtown Historic Railway, in Vancouver, B.C. Closed in 2012.
  Nelson Electric Tramway, in Nelson, B.C.: a single streetcar (#23) operating since 1992 on a 1.2 km route from City wharf to Lakeside Park
  High Level Bridge Streetcar, in Edmonton, Alberta
  Whitehorse trolley, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Closed in 2019.
  Museums with operational heritage streetcar lines:
  Halton County Radial Railway, in Rockwood, Ontario
  Canadian Railway Museum, in Delson/Saint-Constant, Quebec
  Heritage Park Historical Village, in Calgary, Alberta
  Fort Edmonton Park in Edmonton, Alberta
  Transit systems operating heritage streetcars:
  Toronto Transit Commission: operates 3 heritage streetcars (2 PCC and 1 Peter Witt) on regular streetcar tracks, on a private-rental basis as well as for special events. The TTC often operates a PCC streetcar on route 509 Harbourfront on Sundays during the summer.
caption: Peter Witt streetcar at the Halton County Radial Railway
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