DV Transit Media

26/03/2021

Hello Everybody, long time no post. Unfortunately, this will be the last post I make as "DV Transit Media".

Starting next week this page will be known as the "Kodachrome Transit Museum" and be strictly slides or other artifacts from my transit collection shared every week. I hope to move on to a website soon as well.

Just like how "DV Transit" was inspired by the "Mini DV" tape format, the new name was inspired by the former "Kodachrome" film format which was produced from 1935-2009 which is what most of the slides in my collection were shot on.

I will no longer make content under the "DV Transit Media" brand, all video/photo content will be moved over to "Transit Toronto".

I thank you all for the support for the last few years. It's been great, but I hope to do better with my new project.

23/02/2021

Fanning while going to work.

17/02/2021

Snow Day!

16/02/2021

Quick shots of the New Union Station Bus Terminal while waiting for the train home.

A video for Transit Toronto is in the works!

15/02/2021

Arrival

08/02/2021

Got me a plane ticket so I can travel when this pandemic ends.

This airline still operates right...?

Jokes Aside: This is the newest addition to the DV Transit collection. A ticket from the defunct Jetsgo airlines which operated from 2002-2005.

26/01/2021

A Swissair Asia MD-11.

Date: 1999?
Photographer: Unknown

Swissair Asia was a subsidiary set up by Swissair so they can still serve Taiwan while also keeping destinations in Mainland China, similar to KLM Asia.

25/01/2021

Hello again, after a long hiatus I'm back posting slides.

Here is a former Oshawa Transit GM New Look "Fishbowl" bus in a St. Catherines scrap yard.

Date: September 11, 1989
Photographer: D. Chalmers

Oshawa Transit ran until 2006 when it was merged with the transit agencies of Whitby, Ajax/Pickering, and Clarington into Durham Region Transit.

16/01/2021

Nightwalk.

24/12/2020

The Halton County Railway Museum is the premiere site for seeing Toronto's streetcar history, but it only operates for the public between May and October... ...

21/12/2020

This has been one heck of a year.

I have not been able to planespot this year, but I still can make a planespotting video.

Like this one I made for Transit Toronto.
https://youtu.be/JdjfHlCgSeo

Missing planespotting during the pandemic, Transit Toronto videographer Damian Baranowski put together this compilation from 2018 and 2019 to remind us all o...

15/12/2020

In this video, Transit Toronto editor James Bow puts together a video essay (edited by Damian Baranowski) on the TTC's bus loops. These facilities are modest...

13/12/2020

Playing some video games to get my mind off public transit for a bit.

03/12/2020

The end of an era is here.

This Saturday, December 5, 2020. The current Union Station Bus Terminal will close and be replaced with a new facility just south of the tracks at CIBC Square.

GO Bus service started in 1970 and used the Toronto Coach Terminal until the 1990s. It then moved in front of Union Station on Front Street, before getting its own terminal at Union Station in 2003.

Transit Toronto Photographer Damian Baranowski (Me) took some shots on the way home from work of this soon to be gone terminal that serviced many commuters over the years.

20/11/2020

Newest video produced for Transit Toronto.

In the fall of 2018, transit enthusiast Youngjin Ko chartered VIVA NewAG300 bus #7202 for a celebratory trip through York Region, including a visit to York's...

19/11/2020

Tomorrow!

18/11/2020

New video being worked on.

12/11/2020

Remember the "Tide Pod" TTC Subway Train?

10/11/2020

An Cleveland "Red Line" car at Mayfield Road.

Date: 1986?
Photographer: Unknown.

09/11/2020

PCC passing a coach bus.

Date: 1980
Photographer: Richard Glaze

05/11/2020

YDHR Photos from the early 2000s, taken by Peter Mumby.

One of the photos is taken south of the current Lincolnville Station which was not built until 2008.

04/11/2020

A Interflug il-18.

Date: 1990
Photographer: Unknown

03/11/2020

A Interflug A310.

Photographer: Unknown
Date: 1989

Interflug was the flag carrier of the GDR also known as "East Germany", for most of its life it flew Soviet built aircraft, however as other Eastern European Airlines like LOT and Malev acquired western aircraft from Boeing, this paved the way for other Eastern Bloc airlines to get Western planes.

The A310s arrived in June 1989 however their stay was short lived, after the Fall of the Berlin Wall later that year and German Reunification the following year, the airline could not survive and was liquidated in 1991.

The A310s arrived in June 1989 however their stay was short-lived, after the Fall of the Berlin Wall later that year and German Reunification the following year, the airline could not survive and was liquidated in 1991.

03/11/2020

Air Transat Timetable from the year 2000.

03/11/2020

I'm back, the the new computer is up and running and I'm back with your daily dose of old school transit slides and memorabilia.

Starting off today with a Crossair MD-83 in a McDonalds livery.

Photographer: Unknown
Date: Sometime from 1996-2000.

From what I read about this "McPlane" was that it was painted like this to celebrate McDonalds 80th Birthday and the flights were operated by Swiss tour operator "Hotelplan" who worked with the fast food chain.

Burgers and McNuggets were served on the flights, but you could not have fries with that, as reportedly they could not make them to the McDonalds Standard quality in the cabin.

15/10/2020

Setting up the new office!

09/10/2020

Starting off the day with something that's not really transit-related, but it is nostalgic.

I always like Famous Players Theaters better than Cineplex or AMC, I used to watch a whole bunch of movies at the Oshawa Centre location before it closed in 2007. The photo down below was taken in November 2015 at the Pickering Town Centre location, which was closed in 2018.

Sadly the only Famous Players left in the GTA is at Yonge and Eglinton above the Eglinton Subway Station, inside of the Canada Square complex. It's mainly a 2nd run theater but I really wish Cineplex would make it more of an independent and arthouse theater, but with the fallout from COVID, I don't know if the theater would even last the next year.

All we can do is hope...

08/10/2020

ONR TEE train in Timmins.

Date: July 2, 1977
Photographer: Keith Hansen

08/10/2020

I was going to show these off at a TTS meeting last year, but I left them at home. So here they are now.

Some OC Transpo fishbowl bus photos to start off this Thursday.

Photographers: Unknown
Dates: Unknown

07/10/2020

Using an Amtrak photo to end the day again.

An Amtrak "Maple Leaf" train in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Date: June 1984
Photographer: John Maggio