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A sunny Summer's day in 1970 finds TTC PCC 4503 (A8-class, CC&F 1951) departing Eglinton Loop at the northernmost point of the St. Clair streetcar route, just north of Eglinton Avenue East along Mount Pleasant Road. The peaked building in the background is St. Peter's Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (opened 1955), and beyond that the Northern Secondary School (built 1930). Two women wait at the streetside bus stop for the northbound Route 61 Nortown trolleybus service (Avenue Rd-Eglinton-Mount Pleasant).

St. Clair and then later Mount Pleasant route streetcars turned at this quait little loop until streetcar service up Mount Pleasant was discontinued in July 1976, and the loop turned into a trolleybus loop. Today, Eglinton Loop is still in use for Route 74 Mount Pleasant diesel buses, but enclosed by the Moore Park apartment building development. The opening of the Eglinton Crosstown line and its Mount Pleasant Station across the street may increase the loop's importance in coming years.

Original photographer unknown (possibly a John H. Eagle photo), Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.
Copyright Notice: This image ©unknown, Dan Dell'Unto coll. all rights reserved.



Caption: A sunny Summer's day in 1970 finds TTC PCC 4503 (A8-class, CC&F 1951) departing Eglinton Loop at the northernmost point of the St. Clair streetcar route, just north of Eglinton Avenue East along Mount Pleasant Road. It will make its way down Mount Pleasant (past George's Trains), and across St. Clair to Keele Loop in the Junction area at the route's westernmost end. The peaked building in the background is St. Peter's Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (opened 1955), and beyond that the Northern Secondary School (built 1930). Two women wait at the streetside bus stop for the northbound Route 61 Nortown trolleybus service (Avenue Rd-Eglinton-Mount Pleasant).

St. Clair and then later Mount Pleasant route streetcars turned at this quait little loop until streetcar service up Mount Pleasant was discontinued in July 1976, and the loop turned into a trolleybus loop. Today, Eglinton Loop is still in use for Route 74 Mount Pleasant diesel buses, but enclosed by the Moore Park apartment building development. The opening of the Eglinton Crosstown line and its Mount Pleasant Station across the street may increase the loop's importance in coming years.

Original photographer unknown (possibly a John H. Eagle photo), Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.

Photographer:
unknown, Dan Dell'Unto coll. [1094] (more) (contact)
Date: Summer 1970 (search)
Railway: Toronto Transit Commission (search)
Reporting Marks: TTC 4503 (search)
Train Symbol: St. Clair (wbnd) (search)
Subdivision/SNS: TTC Eglinton Loop - Mount Pleasant Rd. & Eglinton Ave. E. (search)
City/Town: Toronto (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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