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 The Toronto Transportation Commission was formed September 1, 1921, when the City of Toronto acquired the Toronto Street Railway Company and the Toronto Civic Railways. During the period between 1921 and 1927, the Toronto Suburban Railways and the Toronto and York Radial Railway & Metropolitan Lines were also taken over by the T.T.C. The Toronto Transportation Commission ceased to exist December 31, 1953, being replaced on January 1, 1954 by the Toronto Transit Commission. This was brought about because of a change to a metropolitan system of government which expanded the Commission's area of responsibility from 35 to 240 square miles. Transit Toronto Web Site Early Days in Richmond Hill Ken Heard, Consultant Museologist, Coordinator, Technology and Transport Museums Sector, Canadian Museums Association, explains: "On 26 March 1861 the new Toronto Street Railway received from the City of Toronto a thirty year franchise to build, operate and maintain a street railway. On 18 June 1861 a similar franchise was received from the Village of Yorkville. One of the terms of these agreements was that the track gauge was to accommodate wagons. As horse car rail was step rail, the horse cars, equipped with iron wheels with flanges on the inside, ran on the outer, or upper step of the rail. Wagon wheels naturally did not have a flange. They were made of wood, with an iron tire. Wagons would use the inner, or lower step of the rail. The upper step of the rail guided the wagons on the track. In order to accommodate this arrangement, the track gauge had to be 4 feet, 10 7/8 inches. As the streets themselves were not paved, this arrangement permitted wagons carrying heavy loads a stable roadbed."
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Toronto Transit Commission TROLLEY LINKS======
City of Toronto Homepage (Official site)  PHOTO GALLERY====
MIKE'S RAIL PHOTOS - MOSTLY PCC's. Toronto Transit Commission  ALL-TIME TROLLEY COACH ROSTER PRESERVED EQUIPMENT======Delson/St-Constant, PQ, Canada [working museum]
Fort Edmonton Park, Edmonton, AB, Canada [working museum]
Milton, ON, Canada [working museum]
(formerly National Museum of Science & Technology) Ottawa, ON, Canada [static museum]
Tucson, AZ, USA [working museum]
East Haven, CT, USA [working museum]
MODELLING THE T.T.C.======
P.C.C. Cars - Railroad Model Craftsman May 1972 page 47 BEC-KITS Great Britain, produces an HO model of a PCC car built by St. Louis Car Co. 1936-1944. It is quite similar to TTC's A-1 class, 4000-4139 and A-2 to A-5 classes, 4150-4299 inc. A picture of the model appears on their web site. Corgi Toys released an 'O' gauge model of a PCC car in 1998. These were available powered and un-powered. The TTC version is decorated as class A-8 #4500 and #4549. These are excellent models but require some modifications to accurately portray a Toronto PCC. MTS Imports Inc., P.O. Box 50, Middletown, NY 10940 has a custom painted and an undecorated model of the 4300-4399 series PCC available in HO scale. Go to the MTS web site for more info and a picture. C-D-S Lettering Ltd., P.O. Box 65074, Nepean, Ontario, Canada, K2G 5Y3, produces dry transfer lettering sets in O, S and HO scales for the TORONTO TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION. The set is #291 TTC Street Car. Scale Transport Models
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