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First Subway Cars Built in
Relative lightweights compared to
the original Gloucester Railway-built cars
Only 27, 700 kilograms (59, 840
pounds)
But they were 17 feet longer
Made out of aluminium at the
Montreal Locomotive Works
Soon the lightweight standard
throughout
Next on this underground agenda, the
six-station University line opened in 1963
Then the Bloor line in 1966, across
the aqueduct, joining the east and west sections of the city
Nine lives lost in the construction
of the third phase of the subway
Can’t find them in the rock or in
the first subway cars built in
Can’t find them in the weight of
light
That turns heavy and
daguerreotype-like
See Sick, decaying love See The SubWay
