steveintoronto
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My slip-up, of course, the Goodyear sign.7up was on the south side of Bloor; a bit of an oblique vista-finisher for Jane St. It's Goodyear that stood atop the Odeon Humber.
It did, but I continue to have doubts. The 'playing field' that the 'St Clair Carhouse' was built on was being rapidly developed at that time, and some of the southern tracks were sold off after the demise of the double-ended cars which were stored on the un-looped tracks.There appears to be a huge amount of housing (to the left and background) in the photo dated only 1 year later.
Does that present a problem with the certainty of identification?
Still researching...
Edit to Add: Getting a lot of pics, none definitive, but found an excellent map and description of the Eglinton Yards, and my hunch appears correct. Eglinton Yards storage track was aligned north-south, not east-west. Note the pic in question refers to "looking W". That may be a trifling error, or it may be the wrong picture...or the right pic of another yard.
Old Time Trains website:
Excellent text continues following in detail...
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/TTC/Eglinton_Car_House.htm
One of the more curious details leaning towards the pic being the Eglinton Yard is the trailers to the left of the pic, and on the far left, tow-motors, which were used for freight on the inter-urban to the north on Yonge, and at one time, down to the St Lawrence Market, TTC gauge track permitting, an era of history I'm only vaguely familiar with, but it must have been interesting times. Re-gauging, IIRC, took place all the way up to Sutton. Roncesvalles Yard also hosted tow-motors at one point, (I remember seeing one a few decades back, ostensibly used for track maintenance) so doubts still persist as to the details typed on that pic.
Toronto Public Library:
T.T.C., #Y 10 & Y 12, shunters, at Eglinton carhouse?
Salmon, James Victor (Canadian, 1911-1958)
Picture, 1940, English
Note the pantographs! Due to the short length of the 'shunters' the use of poles, one for each direction, would have been prohibitive. But the pantographs must have caused problems of their own...
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