Comments on: The Toronto Transit Commission’s “Sand Car” W-26 is pictured at TTC’s Hillcrest Shops complex off Bathurst Street near Davenport. Sand is used by streetcars for extra traction on the rails, and often times an operator would have to top up or add more sand to their car during a shift. The sand car traveled the streetcar system across the city, delivering sand to the various carhouses or barns that the streetcar fleet operated out of. When trucks took over the sand deliveries a few years later, W-26 was retired and scrapped in 1967.

Comments on: The Toronto Transit Commission’s “Sand Car” W-26 is pictured at TTC’s Hillcrest Shops complex off Bathurst Street near Davenport. Sand is used by streetcars for extra traction on the rails, and often times an operator would have to top up or add more sand to their car during a shift. The sand car traveled the streetcar system across the city, delivering sand to the various carhouses or barns that the streetcar fleet operated out of. When trucks took over the sand deliveries a few years later, W-26 was retired and scrapped in 1967. 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