Comments on: A warm summer’s day out finds TTC PCC 4503 (an A8-class car built by CC&F in 1951, the newest PCCs in the fleet) heading southbound on Oakwood Avenue in service on the Rogers Road route, passing a young woman waiting at the stop opposite for a northbound Rt.63 Ossington trolleybus. The Rogers Road streetcar service had but weeks until its final day of operation on July 19th, and subsequent replacement with trolleybuses. The US-based Electric Railroaders Association held their convention in Toronto on July 5-6-7th 1974, and many visiting and local transit/rail enthusiasts (including Tom Dorsey, a US-based transit photographer) attended a series of fantrips organized over the three day period, including one using two TTC trolleybuses (on July 5th), a GO Transit fantrip over parts of CN (July 6th), and a multiple TTC PCC streetcar fantrip (July 7th). Tom Dorsey photo, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide. (A photo by Robert McMann along St. Clair on the same day: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment

Comments on: A warm summer’s day out finds TTC PCC 4503 (an A8-class car built by CC&F in 1951, the newest PCCs in the fleet) heading southbound on Oakwood Avenue in service on the Rogers Road route, passing a young woman waiting at the stop opposite for a northbound Rt.63 Ossington trolleybus. The Rogers Road streetcar service had but weeks until its final day of operation on July 19th, and subsequent replacement with trolleybuses. The US-based Electric Railroaders Association held their convention in Toronto on July 5-6-7th 1974, and many visiting and local transit/rail enthusiasts (including Tom Dorsey, a US-based transit photographer) attended a series of fantrips organized over the three day period, including one using two TTC trolleybuses (on July 5th), a GO Transit fantrip over parts of CN (July 6th), and a multiple TTC PCC streetcar fantrip (July 7th). Tom Dorsey photo, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide. (A photo by Robert McMann along St. Clair on the same day: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=40006). http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:12:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1