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Toronto Trolleys In Color By Kenneth C. Springirth Morning Sun Books w/DJ
Toronto Trolleys In Color By Kenneth C. Springirth
Hardbound With Dustjacket 128 Pages
Copyright 2010 Morning Sun Books
TableofContents
Trolley Roster
Toronto's Tour Trams
Queen - Trolley Car Route 501
Long Branch Trolley Car Route 507
Kingston Road
-Trolley Car Routes 502 and 503
King -Trolley Car Route 504
Bathurst -Trolley Car Route 511
Exhibition -Trolley Car
Routes 521 and 522
Dundas -Trolley Car Route 505
Carlton -Trolley Car Route 506
St. Clair -Trolley Car Route 512
Rogers Road
Bloor
Harbord
Dupont/Bay
Coxwell
Parliament
St. Clair Carhouse
Lansdowne Carhouse
Roncesvalles Carhouse
Russel Carhouse
Hillcrest Shops
Work Equipment
Introduction
The land on the north shore of Lake Ontario between the Humber and Don Rivers was called Toronto by the Indians, which means "place of meeting." The area was later called York, but on March 6, 1834 it was incorporated as a city and renamed Toronto. It is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario with the greater Toronto area having a population of 5,555,912 in the 2006 census. Toronto's first public transit service was the Williams Omnibus Bus Line using horse drawn stage coaches to carry passengers on Yonge Street from Lawrence Market (Front Street) to the Village of Yorkville (between Bloor Street and Yorkville Avenue) in 1849. On March 26, 1861 the Toronto Street Railway received a 30 year franchise to build, operate, and maintain a street railway. The franchise required that the track gauge would accommodate wagons. Horse car was step rail. Horse cars, equipped with iron wheels with flanges on the inside, ran on the outer or upper step of the rail. Wagon wheels were wooden with an iron tire. Wagons would use the inner, or lower step of the rail. The upper step of the rail guided the wagons on the track. To accommodate the wagons the track gauge had to be 4 feet, 10 7/8inches. This gave wagons a stable roadbed, as the streets were not paved. That continued and today is still the track gauge for Toronto's trolley cars. In 1861, the first year of operation, the horse drawn street railway had 6 miles of track, 11 cars, 70 horses, and carried 2,000 passengers a day. By 1891 the system had 68 miles of track, 361 vehicles, 100 sleighs, 1,372 horses, and carried 55,000 riders a day. The city took over the expired franchise of the Toronto Street Railway. Toronto City Council granted a 30 year franchise to the new Toronto Railway Company which took over operations on September 1, 1891. The first electric trolley car was operated on Church Street on August 15, 1892. When the company refused to extend its one fare service beyond city limits, the city under the Toronto Civic Railway began in 1911 to construct new lines. On January 1, 1920 Toronto citizens voted to take over the private company. The Toronto Transportation Commission (TTC) began operation on September 1, 1921.
Between 1921 and 1923 the TTC ordered 575 Peter Witt type trolley cars (350 motor cars and 225 trailers) which had a large passenger capacity and able to haul a trailer. Ottawa Car Company built 50, Preston Car Company built 50, and the remainder came from Canadian Car & Foundry. These steel body front entrance center exit "Pay as You Enter" cars were named for the designer Peter Witt, commissioner of the Cleveland Street Railway. During 1923 the TTC took over all the city routes of the Toronto Suburban Railway. By 1927 all Toronto trolley car lines were operated by the TTC.
The TTC was an active participant in the Presidents' Conference Committee, headed by Dr. Charles Hirshfield, and organized during 1929 to design a new and improved trolley car which
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