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MSC Train facing East in front of MSC Station on now Marguerite D'Youville and Mc Gill SW Corner.On other side of Intersection is a Montreal Tramways 2-Man car ( Green ) preparing to turn to it's Right/North onto Mc Gill. This loop is end of the line for Tramways Routes using it.
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MSC Train facing East in front of MSC Station on now Marguerite D'Youville and Mc Gill SW Corner
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MSC train spotted in spur parallel to Soeurs Grise, looking South to Harbour. Two Marker Lamps indicate 'Rear of Train' in Train Order Operation. MSC Trains operated on Schedules and Train Orders as 'Real' Trains did, unlike most Tramways cars in City operations.
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MacKayville. Car 8 leaves Wye facing towards St Lambert. Note brass whistle above front windows.
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Northbound Blue Bonnets streetcar just past the crossover the Southward Track and the curved spur into Blue Bonnets Raceway to the West/ Right..Jean Talon/Harold Cummings/Namur is just to the South with a road entrance to B B off West end of street just West of Decarie, the latter out of frame to left.
The Tramways Trestle over the CPR to Vezina can be seen in distance.
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Soutbound streetcar having just crossed road at West end of Jean Talon/Namur into Blue Bonnets. Crossover for streetcars into BB can be seen behind, with spur diverging to West/Left in distance.
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MTC PCC cars piled up for scrapping at St. Lawrence Iron and Metal South of Dickson in the East End. There are some autobusses and Work Equipment, also, in 1963.
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No 4 Westbound car on Rte 91 Lachine at St Pierre ( Bascule Bridge )
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Youville Shops near the end.
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Route 17 Cartierville Terminus
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Tram southbound on trestle over CPR tracks west of Decarie
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PCC streetcar with Garland Terminus powerhouse to the right (6310 Decarie
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M&SC trolley near McGill Street, Old Montreal
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Lachine 91 Streetcar at Stoney Point Terminus 5, the streetcar is facing South on 44 th. Ave in the tail of the Wye at Lachine, with Broadway crossing East/West in front of car. The post 1951 crest is visible on car side. The car will then 'leave', turning left/East onto Broadway and thence back to downtown Montreal. This part of the Lachine line was discontinued in Nov. 1954, the service then being cut back to Notre Dame and 6th. by Dominion Bridge.
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-Streetcar at Mount Royal Blvd. and Hutchison, camera facing west.
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-Streetcar route 40 at l'Archevesque stop, Montreal North
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MSC train spotted in spur parallel to Soeurs Grise, looking South to Harbour. Two Marker Lamps indicate 'Rear of Train' in Train Order Operation. MSC Trains operated on Schedules and Train Orders as 'Real' Trains did, unlike most Tramways cars in City operations.
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Soutbound streetcar having just crossed road at West end of Jean Talon/Namur into Blue Bonnets. Crossover for streetcars into BB can be seen behind, with spur diverging to West/Left in distance.
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MTC PCC cars piled up for scrapping at St. Lawrence Iron and Metal South of Dickson in the East End. There are some autobusses and Work Equipment, also, in 1963.
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No 4 Westbound car on Rte 91 Lachine at St Pierre ( Bascule Bridge )
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Lachine Extension line ran near 56th and Stoney Point Park and was replaced by a bus in May 1952.
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Hochelaga Car bar 1911.55
Golden Chariot observation car launched in 1905, outside the Place Viger Hotel56
New line starts on Sherbrooke West from NDG to Montreal West, August 13, 1908.57
New line opens on Westmount Avenue, 1904.
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Victoria and St. Catherine February 9, 1904.
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Bleury Street 1904.
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High tech snow clearing c. 190061
Clearing snow for the tram on St. Catherine 1902.62
Hochelaga Car Barn 1899.63
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Streetcar exclusive right-of-way facing south between Queen Mary Road and Cote St. Luc Road. A few maps erroneously show this as "Girouard" since it does connect directly to it.
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Streetcar passes Forum night of 1955 hockey riots
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Two Man Car. Rte. 58 Wellington.
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Northeast from the corner of St. James West and Little Craig. Little Craig was a short one-block diagonal street connecting St. James with Craig. Until about 1953 it had streetcar tracks. The street itself eventually disappeared as University was extended southward. The westbound streetcar in the photo was one of the ones bought second hand from the U.S. by the Montreal Tramways Company to augment their fleet during the Second World War. The cars were known for having leather upholstered seats instead of the usual rattan seats in Montreal streetcars.
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Outside the Grand Trunk Railway's Bonaventure Station near Peel and St James, August 1907.
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Wow brings back many memories of my younger days in Rosemont
ReplyDeleteReminds me of my younger days living in Rosemont and montreal
ReplyDeleteThe colors are sharp and vivid. Great collection.
ReplyDelete67 and 76 are the same photo.
ReplyDeleteHow well I remember #97 The white and gold-trimmed excursion car on which my mother used to take me! It felt so special and luxurious, with its open top and raised, graduated seats. I remember it ran alongside the mountain on Park Avenue, but where else is a blur.
ReplyDeleteNostalgia: The regular ones took us to a frequent pleasure spot, Belmont Park, for a whole day and evening of food treats, rides, games, music, concerts and much more.
Fond memories, indeed!
ReplyDeleteOdd, isn't it, though, how Montreal's transit seating has "progressed" from wood planking, to rattan, to leather, to thin vinyl padding, but has regressed in our brand new Bombardier Azure Metro cars to solid, uncomfortable plastic.
Our bus seats (and so-called suspensions) are not much better when dealing with our wretched, pot-holed streets!
Is padded-seat vandalism as pervasive as it might have been in the past? But hard plastic is easier to clean, you say?
I wonder who (or what stingy committee) at the STM decided that Montrealers' rear-ends deserve Bombardier's most uncomfortable Metro seats when that same multi-national company provides Sweden's Stockholm C20 and C20F Metro cars with a nice padded arrangement and for a city with a virtually identical population. Gee, thanks, STM!
See this and envy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WK-qXX-kM
Hur orättvist!
My father Derek R sold machine parts to J. Wiselberg machinery back in the 50's which is behind car #501 in picture #35 , corner Grey Nun's ( soeurs grises) and Wellington St. Close to the old terminus. I used to go with dad there on Saturday morning's and hang around whilst they talked business.
ReplyDeleteRegarding photo number 33 of the streetcar overpass crossing the CPR lines, a similar one downunder still very much in service today brought back memories when I visited there some years ago. See YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4NHd_WeFp0
ReplyDeleteSome additions and corrections to a few of the photos above:
ReplyDelete50 - Route 17 tram heading south on Decarie Blvd. just south of the former CNR level crossing (now an underpass to the south of St. Louis Ave.). Note the black and white striped safety barriers. The brown-bricked building in the right rear background was Smith and Stone - Canadian Pittsburgh Paints at 255 Decarie, which closed many years later. However, the structure is still in place though significantly re-modeled.
69 - Chaboillez Square, corner of Windsor and Notre Dame W. (Windsor later to become merged with Peel Street). The photographer is facing west and standing on Notre Dame W., the then Dow Brewery building at his back which as of 2019 is currently awaiting re-purposing. The brown-bricked building in the right rear background is the former CNR Cartage Services/Local Freight Office at 550-600 Windsor--a building only demolished relatively recently. A small parking lot exists on the property until such time as it is inevitably built upon. Incidentally, that former CNR office building was preceded by the original Bonaventure railway station which actually extended somewhat further to the east from the existing sidewalk. That vintage station along with its adjacent freight yards were destroyed in a fire (1948) and the remnants demolished in 1952. In subsequent years, the streets intersecting at Chaboillez Square have been considerably reconfigured to improve the flow of traffic, not to mention the significant urban renewal in and around the area. See the photo in the link below to juxtapose.
http://www.taylornoakes.com/2011/09/06/a-new-planetarium-at-the-big-o-what-will-come-of-chaboillez-square/dow/
72 - Tram route 31 on Notre Dame W. circa 1950s with the CNR viaduct in the background, the steam locomotive 46 and its passenger train having left Central Station. The street immediately on the other (eastern) side of the viaduct is University (that section of which was recently renamed Blvd. Robert Bourassa). The photographer is facing east and standing at the corner of Inspector Street. Google Maps reveal the viaduct hasn't changed much since then, although the maple leaf insignia on the viaduct has faded significantly. The buildings to the left/north side of Notre Dame W. have long since been demolished to be replaced by the present-day (2019) parking lot. The former Royal Bank head office building at 360 St. Jacques can be seen at the top right hand corner. Sadly, this beautiful bank was closed in recent years--the head office relocated elsewhere. Currently the building contains a restaurant and is well-worth walking inside to admire the decorative interior and ceiling design. They don't make buildings like that anymore!
This is the most wonderful collection I have ever seen. Thanks for bringing back so many great memories.
ReplyDeleteThe hochelaga photo is interesting: it is the only known photos of an 863 series car before ww2 (and so without green/cream livery and dash illumination), a series of 10 tramways that are believed to be the first steel built tramways in the world: a fondamental milestone in urban transport history that not many people known was in montreal
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