Toronto PCC being rebuilt at McKinney Avenue

The McKinney Avenue Transit Authority has posted an update on its Facebook page with photos of its latest rebuild project, Toronto Transportation Commission 4614. This is a Toronto 4600, a car rebuilt by the TTC in the early 1990s and retired just a few years later. It's one of two identical cars (the other is 4613) acquired by MATA more than twenty years ago, in 1996, and stored since then. It's been an on-again, off-again subject of interest for rebuilding; a few years ago work started but was stopped, possibly in favor of an ex-Dallas double-end PCC which was scrapped last year. But now work has resumed in earnest and the scope is impressive. The car's interior has been stripped out and, more startlingly, a left-hand door has been cut in just behind the motorman's position (see above). This is almost exactly what Mexico City did to the PCC cars they bought secondhand from Detroit. It will be interesting to see 4614 when it emerges from the McKinney workshop.