Y-2 - TTC Yard Shunter (1922-1954)
For the first half of the 20th century, the Toronto Railway Company and the Toronto Transportation Commission responded to heavy ridership on certain lines by attaching a trailer to large streetcars, creating two-car trains that plied routes like KINGSTON ROAD and, especially, YONGE. As these trailers were unpowered, there needed to be a way to move these trailers through a carhouse and couple them to streetcars. These powered yard shunters were the answer. Here we see TTC Shunter car Y-2 resting on track 17 at Eglinton Carhouse in this shot taken by Richard Glaze on May 30, 1953.
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