I also like the looks of the old ones better but the new ones are fine with me!

Yeah, at least they still more or less look like the classic gumball lumes unlike those repro ones.

Well technically this is a repro.

No, they are just new gumballs, they never stopped making them.

Really? Is it confirmed who makes these?

You found they where Coopers, they are made exactly like the old ones unlike repos which are not built the same. Is a new NEMA head a repo? Exactly, no it isn't. Both of these lights are NEMAs.

It's a NEMA, but the optics are a repro. Cooper unfourtunatly discontinued this in 2008. That's why i asked who made these because aren't these still installed there?

They still make them, they are likely now an off catalog item like the OV-15 and OV-25. Toronto is likely the only place the that orders them.

I contacted Cooper earlier on the year and I got the response "We are sorry. Our "gumball" light has been discontinued since 2008 with no current replacment." These must be specially made for Torronto.

I'm pretty sure they are, did you ever ask Cooper about the OV-15/25?

I did. They said "The OV15 and OV25 are still produced today. For further information, please contact our Customer First Center in Peachtree, Georgia." I never called the Customer Service place though.

YAY you took the pic! Now, time for you to take a night shot

By the way the head looks like a Josyln to me...I could be wrong...

The night shot is now posted on this page.

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Oh great, now I need another subway token.

Now Joe.....relamp that old fixture, and rewire and do whatever it needs to get it working again!

I'll do it if you give me a bucket truck!

I bet you that old gumball still works and was probably switched off when the bus terminal that it lights was abandoned.

update: these are mostly gone now, the entire site has been demolished and is now a giant pit for a future underground LRT station.

I see the B2255 at yonge street was taken down too, looked really cool on that pole.

I guess you're talking about this? Yeah those were pretty cool poles. I always found in interesting that section of Yonge had them.

Bloor and Danforth used to have similar poles but aluminium versions. I think they mostly got replaced in 2005 but a few stayed for a couple more years. Anyway I think they're one of the first HPS installs in Toronto, they were installed around 1967.

Too bad they replaced them all, they looked cool, I remember when I was younger seeing all those aluminum poles with GE's. There are still a few of those same poles by Jane st too, only 3 left now. Those poles would probably be steel im guessing because of the brown discoloration

There were also some over the Humber river on Dundas too! They came down in 2008. The GE m250r2 B2255, 125, and 25 im guessing were all spot replacements over the years.