page_title: Toronto streetcar system rolling stock
section_title: Ex-TCR streetcars
hierarchical_section_title: Toronto streetcar system rolling stock / Inherited streetcars / Ex-TCR streetcars
caption_attribution_description: Weston Road streetcar. Note: this is a double-ended car. Original caption: “TTC Niles car #2132 operates on the WESTON car route through Mount Dennis on November 1, 1947. Photo donated from the collection of Martin Proctor.” This image is available from the City of Toronto Archives, listed under the archival citation Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 3524. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Deutsch&#160;| English&#160;| suomi&#160;| français&#160;| magyar&#160;| македонски&#160;| Nederlands&#160;| português&#160;| +/−
context_page_description: In 1921, the Toronto Transportation Commission was created to integrate and operate the Toronto streetcar system. It inherited the infrastructure of two separate streetcar operators: the Toronto Railway Company and Toronto Civic Railways. The TTC immediately embarked on a program to connect the TRC and TCR lines into one network. The TTC had to rebuild most of the track to provide a wider devilstrip so that the wider Peter Witt streetcars it was ordering could pass without sideswiping. Between 1938 and 1945, it placed five orders for air-electric PCC streetcars to replace the old, wooden streetcars of the TRC, and to address rising ridership. Between 1947 and 1951, the TTC placed three orders for all-electric PCC cars, with one order equipped with couplers for multiple-unit operation. Between 1950 and 1957, the TTC purchased PCCs from four American cities. By 1957, the TTC had more PCCs than any other city in North America. After the opening of the Bloor–Danforth subway in 1966, the TTC considered terminating all streetcar service in Toronto.
context_section_description: The TTC inherited the TCR fleet in 1921, and renumbered the cars (using even numbers only) in May 1923. Many of the TRC stayed in passenger service in Toronto until 1948. All TCR cars were double-ended.
  The TTC initially used the four Class I double-truck streetcars (TCR 120–123, TTC 2120–2126) for temporary service on lines being converted from single to double-track. All were scrapped in 1936, with the exception of car 2120, which the TTC converted into a snow scraper and used on the North Yonge Railways until 1948.
  The TTC used the double-truck Class H cars (TCR 100–119, TTC 2128–2144 & 2148–2166) mainly on the Weston route and also on Spadina route until 1948. TCR car 109 (TTC 2146) was destroyed by fire in 1921.
  The Class J (TCR 200–212, TTC 2168–2192) double-truck streetcars, ran mainly on the Spadina route and also on the Weston route until 1948.
  The TTC used the Class F, single-truck streetcars (TCR 50–57, TTC 2200–2214) for rush-hour service until 1926 after which they were converted into snow scrapers. The only three survivors of the entire TCR fleet are from this class, and all three are preserved at the Halton County Radial Railway museum in Milton, Ontario. Preserved TCR car 55 (TTC 2210) was restored to its original TCR condition. The TTC had converted the other two surviving Class F cars into rail grinders and both are preserved as such at the museum. TCR 52 (TTC 2204) became subway rail grinder RT-7, and TCR 57 (TTC 2214) became streetcar system rail grinder W-28.
  Class G (TCR: 60–84, TTC 2216–2264) consisted of single-truck, Birney cars which were used on various TTC routes, such as Davenport and Coxwell, until 1940. The cars were sold in 1927, 1940 and 1941 to run in Cornwall and Halifax until 1949, after which they were scrapped.
  In May 1923, the TTC renumbered all the TCR streetcars with even numbers only. The year retired column refers to retirement from passenger service in Toronto; it excludes cars sold to other operators (Class G) or retirements from work car service after conversion.
caption: Class H streetcar on Weston route in 1947
exif: {}