Comments on: 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.

Comments on: 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. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 18:15:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1