Comments on: It’s not the old Dupont streetcar: TTC CLRV 4127 operates on an afternoon run of the 506 Carleton streetcar route short-turning downtown via Bay Street. It’s paused next to the Toronto Coach Terminal southbound on Bay just north of Dundas, awaiting the light to turn westbound onto Dundas (returning to College probably via McCaul St.). When the TTC’s Dupont streetcar line was abandoned in 1963, much of the streetcar tracks on Bay were ripped up except for certain stretches used for short-turning cars, and the Dundas streetcar looping at on-street City Hall Loop. This stretch along Bay from College to Dundas remains today for short-turns. The old Toronto Coach Terminal, opened 1931, served as Toronto’s main intercity bus terminal for decades, with operators such as Gray Coach Lines, Greyhound Canada, Ontario Northland, Penetang-Midland Coach Lines (PMCL) and even GO Transit operating bus services out of the TCT buildings around Edward and Bay Streets. There were talks for many years about relocating intercity bus services out of this aging bus terminal to a location closer to downtown and the Gardiner Expressway. The major blow to its future came during the pandemic in 2021 when it major operator Greyhound Canada announced it would be ceasing all of its Canadian operations. The TCT closed later that year when most remaining coach operators relocated to a new bus terminal shared with GO Transit near Union Station. This site is now being redeveloped with the main terminal heritage building retained. Another neat feature pictures is the concrete smokestack in the background for the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant building (for their DLWC cooling system for downtown office buildings that uses water from Lake Ontario, that also provides steam heating to downtown office buildings). Now mostly obscured by newer highrises.

Comments on: It’s not the old Dupont streetcar: TTC CLRV 4127 operates on an afternoon run of the 506 Carleton streetcar route short-turning downtown via Bay Street. It’s paused next to the Toronto Coach Terminal southbound on Bay just north of Dundas, awaiting the light to turn westbound onto Dundas (returning to College probably via McCaul St.). When the TTC’s Dupont streetcar line was abandoned in 1963, much of the streetcar tracks on Bay were ripped up except for certain stretches used for short-turning cars, and the Dundas streetcar looping at on-street City Hall Loop. This stretch along Bay from College to Dundas remains today for short-turns. The old Toronto Coach Terminal, opened 1931, served as Toronto’s main intercity bus terminal for decades, with operators such as Gray Coach Lines, Greyhound Canada, Ontario Northland, Penetang-Midland Coach Lines (PMCL) and even GO Transit operating bus services out of the TCT buildings around Edward and Bay Streets. There were talks for many years about relocating intercity bus services out of this aging bus terminal to a location closer to downtown and the Gardiner Expressway. The major blow to its future came during the pandemic in 2021 when it major operator Greyhound Canada announced it would be ceasing all of its Canadian operations. The TCT closed later that year when most remaining coach operators relocated to a new bus terminal shared with GO Transit near Union Station. This site is now being redeveloped with the main terminal heritage building retained. Another neat feature pictures is the concrete smokestack in the background for the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant building (for their DLWC cooling system for downtown office buildings that uses water from Lake Ontario, that also provides steam heating to downtown office buildings). Now mostly obscured by newer highrises. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:48:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1