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TTC PCC 4756 (A14-class, secondhand from Kansas City MO) is paused at the light before making the right turn onto Weston Road for the short jaunt up to Keele Loop. Either the streetcar is broken down or the operator has hopped off to attend to something, but it has caused traffic to back up coming out of the railway underpass (CN Weston Sub & CP MacTier Sub) and motorists are diverting into the right lane to get by.

On top of the underpass are a few freight cars (including a green-door double-door CN or DW&P lumber service boxcar), probably overflow from the nearby CN West Toronto yards. Webster & Sons Ltd Building Materials had a siding just to the north, one of many small industries in The Junction area to receive rail service.

TTC 4756, originally built as Kansas City 749 by St. Louis Car Co. in 1946 and acquired secondhand by Toronto in late 1957, was retired by the TTC in 1976 and was part of a group of PCC's sold to SEPTA in Philadelphia as their 2242. They were purchased to replace some of the cars SEPTA had recently lost in a carhouse fire, but were in poor shape and only lasted a few years in service for their third owner.

Original photographer unknown (possibly a C.G. Parsons original), Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.
Copyright Notice: This image ©unknown, Dan Dell'Unto coll. all rights reserved.



Caption: TTC PCC 4756 (A14-class, secondhand from Kansas City MO) is paused at the light before making the right turn onto Weston Road for the short jaunt up to Keele Loop. Either the streetcar is broken down or the operator has hopped off to attend to something, but it has caused traffic to back up coming out of the railway underpass (CN Weston Sub & CP MacTier Sub) and motorists are diverting into the right lane to get by.

On top of the underpass are a few freight cars (including a green-door double-door CN or DW&P lumber service boxcar), probably overflow from the nearby CN West Toronto yards. Webster & Sons Ltd Building Materials had a siding just to the north, one of many small industries in The Junction area to receive rail service.

TTC 4756, originally built as Kansas City 749 by St. Louis Car Co. in 1946 and acquired secondhand by Toronto in late 1957, was retired by the TTC in 1976 and was part of a group of PCC's sold to SEPTA in Philadelphia as their 2242. They were purchased to replace some of the cars SEPTA had recently lost in a carhouse fire, but were in poor shape and only lasted a few years in service for their third owner.

Original photographer unknown (possibly a C.G. Parsons original), Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.

Photographer:
unknown, Dan Dell'Unto coll. [930] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/14/1975 (search)
Railway: Toronto Transit Commission (search)
Reporting Marks: TTC 4756 (search)
Train Symbol: St. Clair (wbnd Keele Loop) (search)
Subdivision/SNS: St. Clair Ave W. & Weston Rd. (search)
City/Town: Toronto (West Toronto) (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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  1. This takes me back to my boyhood in the late 1950′s and early 1960′s growing up in Pgh, PA. Pittsburgh phased out the most trolley service for buses except in the South Hills. We have super trolleys but they are just longer trolleys and can be connected. Washington has a trolley museum that is very nice. Thank you for the memories. https://pa-trolley.org/

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