User:Geo Swan/Eglinton Carhouse
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The Toronto Transit Commission stored a large fleet of its Peter Witt streetcars at it Eglinton Carhouse from 1922 until 1954.[1][2][3] The vehicles were used on the Yonge streetcar line, the TTC's busiest streetcar route, until the opening of the TTC's first 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) Yonge subway.
According to historian Mike Filey the Eglinton Carhouse was built only ten years after the intersection was annexed into Toronto, and when there were farmer's fields nearby.[2]
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[edit]- ^ "Toronto's Streetcar Network". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
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Mike Filey (1997). "The TTC Story: The First Seventy-Five Years". Dundurn Press. p. 77. ISBN 9781770700796. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
It was here, on the southwest corner, that the Commission had opened its first new carhouse in December 1922, erected to replace the antiquated ex-Toronto Railway Company facility on Yorkville Avenue.
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John F. Bromley, Jack May (1973). "Fifty years of progressive transit: a history of the Toronto Transit Commission". Electric Railroaders' Association. p. 29. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
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