Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Horsecar meets the future


  Queen St West at Gladstone, view west in 1893. A horsecar full of passengers passes the new electric streetcar track construction. It's about to pass under the multi-track railway underpass, now CN, GO and the UP express.

Mike Filey, Victor Russell, From Horse Power to Horsepower, Toronto 1890-1930, Dundurn Press, 1991

 Same view 1993. An articulated LRV replaces the horsecar, and a natural gas-fueled bus is making the Gladstone jog around the break in Dufferin St. A warehouse replaces the CPR ticket office. 
Below, 2018. Yet another generation of streetcar heads eastbound past new condo buildings. 

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