Old Time Trains

Dundas Street West looking eastward.
Runnymede Road was the City Limit

Service continues while work goes on.

Not in fact a crossover, it is the point where line goes from single to double track.

Note ad for Tuckett's Orinoco tobacco and smaller Player's cigarette ad above it at right on corner of Beresford Avenue.

Tracks allow Lambton cars to return west and Dundas cars to return east from Runnymede Loop.

Complicated trackwork produces a very usual layout with a deadend wye track between the loop tracks on Runnymede Road for some unknown reason even though there are tracks to loop cars from both directions as well as permit straight movements.

Note Guffin's (Cash) Hardware on the north east corner which sold Imperial Oil's Premier gasoline from a pump on sidewalk at curb to left of sign, something common at the time. Rexall Drug store next door relocated to that corner location and operated into the 1960's as Runnymede Pharmacy. Guffin later relocated on the south side next to the bank on the east corner. The name and location continues to this day. (April 2007) Ten days later (below) it was winter!

TTC 2136 operates on temporary track a year earlier. Note The Dominion Bank at right.

Cross Over to permit double-ended cars to reverse direction. It may have been temporary until Runnymede Loop was built.
Note 2 in 1 Shoe Polish advertisement painted on side of building at Fisken Avenue,
long a popular product as well as a popular method of advertising.

Five earlier views of construction with temporary track at side of the road east of Gilmour Avenue.

St. John's Road (lower right at an angle) and Clendenan Avenue at right (south) and to the left after a jog.
Note the gas pump on the sidewalk at the curb, a common practice at the time when hardware stores sold gasolene.

Mc.Murray Avenue is behind the camera. High Park Avenue at the right.
Branch of the recently (August 17th.) failed Home Bank of Canada on the far corner.

East of Mavety Street towards Keele. Lewis's ladies wear at the left where my mother once worked.

Note: Cut Rate Drug Stores at left near north west corner.

Streetcar service is still being maintained inspite of the very disruptive construction work.
Far left at 2874-76 (Later renumbered 2886) Dundas is F.W.Woolworth Co.Ltd. 5-10-15 Cent Store, today's dollar store! They even had a lunch counter (menu for 1960) long before Mc.Donald's was inside Wal Mart! There were lots of other choices of places to eat including next door. LUNCH always open, say their signs.

Note Tamblyn drug store's unique curved sign at the right easily identified the chain.
A. May (later, May Bros.) hardware store to the right.

The Bank of Toronto sits on the north east corner its solid stone construction was common for banks to reassure customers of their stability. While the bank is long gone by merger (Toronto-Dominion) the building itself still stands.

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Dundas Street West looking eastward.
Runnymede Road was the City Limit

Service continues while work goes on.

Not in fact a crossover, it is the point where line goes from single to double track.

Note ad for Tuckett's Orinoco tobacco and smaller Player's cigarette ad above it at right on corner of Beresford Avenue.

Tracks allow Lambton cars to return west and Dundas cars to return east from Runnymede Loop.

Complicated trackwork produces a very usual layout with a deadend wye track between the loop tracks on Runnymede Road for some unknown reason even though there are tracks to loop cars from both directions as well as permit straight movements.

Note Guffin's (Cash) Hardware on the north east corner which sold Imperial Oil's Premier gasoline from a pump on sidewalk at curb to left of sign, something common at the time. Rexall Drug store next door relocated to that corner location and operated into the 1960's as Runnymede Pharmacy. Guffin later relocated on the south side next to the bank on the east corner. The name and location continues to this day. (April 2007) Ten days later (below) it was winter!

TTC 2136 operates on temporary track a year earlier. Note The Dominion Bank at right.

Cross Over to permit double-ended cars to reverse direction. It may have been temporary until Runnymede Loop was built.
Note 2 in 1 Shoe Polish advertisement painted on side of building at Fisken Avenue,
long a popular product as well as a popular method of advertising.

Five earlier views of construction with temporary track at side of the road east of Gilmour Avenue.

St. John's Road (lower right at an angle) and Clendenan Avenue at right (south) and to the left after a jog.
Note the gas pump on the sidewalk at the curb, a common practice at the time when hardware stores sold gasolene.

Mc.Murray Avenue is behind the camera. High Park Avenue at the right.
Branch of the recently (August 17th.) failed Home Bank of Canada on the far corner.

East of Mavety Street towards Keele. Lewis's ladies wear at the left where my mother once worked.

Note: Cut Rate Drug Stores at left near north west corner.

Streetcar service is still being maintained inspite of the very disruptive construction work.
Far left at 2874-76 (Later renumbered 2886) Dundas is F.W.Woolworth Co.Ltd. 5-10-15 Cent Store, today's dollar store! They even had a lunch counter (menu for 1960) long before Mc.Donald's was inside Wal Mart! There were lots of other choices of places to eat including next door. LUNCH always open, say their signs.

Note Tamblyn drug store's unique curved sign at the right easily identified the chain.
A. May (later, May Bros.) hardware store to the right.

The Bank of Toronto sits on the north east corner its solid stone construction was common for banks to reassure customers of their stability. While the bank is long gone by merger (Toronto-Dominion) the building itself still stands.