512	S T . C L A I R
	TO ST. CLAIR STN
Eastbound, 7 days a week, 18 hours a day
512	S T . C L A I R
	TO KEELE
Westbound, 7 days a week, 18 hours a day

Text by James Bow.

See Also:

• The Battle of St. Clair and A Chronology of the St. Clair Right-of-Way Project.
• The Mount Pleasant Streetcar.
• The Earlscourt Streetcar.
• St. Clair (Wychwood) Carhouse.
• Townsley Loop.
• Avon/Northlands/Bicknell Loops.
• VIDEO: 512 St. Clair Streetcar Ride Along, July 10, 2019, by James Bow.

The Route

The 512 ST. CLAIR streetcar begins at St. Clair Station, in a loop just east of Yonge Street. Travelling west on private right-of-way in the centre of the street, it dives underground just past Spadina to loop through the St. Clair West subway station interchange. Passing track switches at Bathurst and Vaughan, and short-turn loops at Oakwood and Lansdowne (as well as abandoned tracks at Wychwood and Old Weston Road (Townsley Loop)), the line finally turns back at Gunns Loop, a block west of Keele Street. There, passengers can transfer onto the 71 RUNNYMEDE bus for service along St. Clair to Runnymede.

The route has two branches; the main branch, from Keele to Yonge, operates whenever the subway is open, while additional morning rush-hour service is provided between Earlscourt Loop (at Lansdowne) and St. Clair station. Buses on the 312 ST. CLAIR NIGHT route serve the street, running from St. Clair station west to Jane and south on Jane to Jane station. ST. CLAIR streetcars can also be seen entering service from Roncesvalles Carhouse via King and Bathurst and, if you ask politely, some drivers may pick you up on Bathurst Street and take you to St Clair West station.

A History of Streetcars on St Clair

From the beginning of the twentieth century, St Clair Avenue developed as a major arterial road at the edge of the City of Toronto. The settlements of College Heights, Wychwood, Silverthorn, Earlscourt, Fairbank and Forest Hill were quick to spring up along the street, but public transit service didn’t follow. This was also the case in other, newly-annexed parts of the city, including East Toronto along the Danforth, and Bloor Street in Bloor West Village.

The reason for the lack of service was because Toronto was late in annexing the area into itself. The Toronto Railway Company, a private corporation now well into its thirty-year license to operate streetcars within the city, argued that their original charter only covered land within the Toronto City Limits as they were in 1891. The probable reason behind their use of this legal technicality was a reluctance to spend money on new lines when it was uncertain whether or not the Toronto Railway Company would be reaping their benefits a decade later. Ironically, the TRC’s intransigence served only to convince Toronto City Council that the TRC’s license shouldn’t be renewed past 1921.

But the year was 1911, and the city of Toronto resolved that they were not going to wait ten years before a new company would expand streetcar services into the annexed parts of the city. Instead, they went it alone, and formed the Toronto Civic Railway which started construction on five lines, the second of which was St. Clair.

Construction began in September 1911. A temporary material and supply yard was built at the west end of the line, near Davenport Road and the Grand Trunk (now Canadian National) tracks. Work on the line started at Yonge Street, and continued west. Despite the fact that St. Clair was a very straight street, the many hills and valleys created an undulating character that required a considerable amount of earthmoving, slowing down the project considerably. In particular, the Nordheimer Ravine just east of Bathurst Street gave the engineers nightmares, proving near impossible to fill before the decision was made to bridge it instead. After two years, the residents were getting restless; with the entire line complete except for the gap at the Nordheimer Ravine, the TCR built a temporary bridge to the north of the street and ran the tracks across it gauntlet fashion. Service finally began on Monday, August 25, 1913, with no fanfare; officials were doubtless glad just to be done with the route. Work continued on the permanent bridge, which opened for streetcar traffic on Saturday, June 20, 1914.

The cars were stored at the newly opened St. Clair Carhouse on Wychwood Avenue, and the line boasted fine private right-of-way down the middle of the street. Track was laid on a deep gravel bed, with two inches of crushed stone around the rails. Cars began operating at 6 minute intervals during the day, but by 1918, service was increased to 2 minutes during rush hours. ST. CLAIR was also the only line in the Toronto Civic Railway to offer transfers; it just so happened that the LANSDOWNE route, constructed later, made a connection with the line at Lansdowne Avenue; the only case of a TCR route connecting with another.

CLRV 4178 departs St. Clair Station for its westbound run to Keele.

The TTC Takes Over

The transfer of all streetcar services to the Toronto Transportation Commission brought significant changes on the route. Starting Monday, December 26, 1921, ST. CLAIR streetcars were cut back to crossovers between Yonge and Avenue Road, while the single-ended AVENUE ROAD cars operated along the rest of the route to a newly constructed Caledonia Loop at Station Street. This was only a temporary revision; by July 1, 1923, ST. CLAIR cars were operating along the full route again, to Lawton Loop at Yonge Street and Lawton Avenue (now a parkette). AVENUE ROAD Cars continued to provide additional service west of Avenue Road, and this line was later renamed BAY. Finally, on December 1, 1924, the ST. CLAIR streetcar was extended east along St. Clair to Mount Pleasant Road, looping at Moore Park Loop (also now a parkette). On November 4, 1925, after official opening ceremonies had taken place the day before, the second phase of this extension brought the route up Mount Pleasant to Eglinton Avenue, replacing most of an experimental TTC trolley bus route.

On the western end, the termini shifted around as the TTC contended with a grade crossing over Canadian National railroad tracks. Cars continued to loop at Caledonia Loop, forcing people who wanted to travel further west to cross the tracks on foot to DOVERCOURT cars waiting at Prescott Loop; these took them to Old Weston Road. This gap was eventually bridged and, on October 29, 1931, service was extended to Townsley Loop (Old Weston Road) and on to Keele Loop on May 14, 1932.

The ST. CLAIR streetcar and its BATHURST and BAY companions would use no less than three different western loops, all in close proximity to each other. Keele Loop, just north of the Keele Street, St Clair Avenue intersection, saw most of the service, but many cars travelled north on Keele Street and onto Weston Road, to Northlands Loop at the Toronto City Limits. Starting September 1, 1943, rush hour service continued further north on Weston Road, to Avon Loop, at Rogers Road; this service continued until February 25, 1966, almost two decades after the WESTON ROAD streetcar was abandoned in 1948.

In 1928, the TTC began to remove the central private right-of-way, replacing it with paved trackage instead. The first section to go was between Bathurst Street and Dufferin. In 1929, the section between Dufferin and Lansdowne was paved over. Lansdowne to Caledonia went in 1931, while the last section, between Bathurst and Yonge, fell in 1935. The TTC would later come to regret this decision; in 1974, the TTC attempted to keep the automobiles off the streetcar tracks by painting yellow stripes across them. Continued problems with congestion would lead the TTC to invest millions in reinstating a private right-of-way starting in 2005. More on that later.

The surprising number of short turn loops on this line today says much about the number of streetcar lines that shared trackage with St. Clair. BAY cars provided additional service from the western loop to Avenue Road, before heading downtown. BATHURST cars also picked up passengers along St. Clair Avenue before turning south at Vaughan Road. OAKWOOD and ROGERS ROAD streetcars connected with the line at Oakwood Loop, and ROGERS ROAD provided a rush-hour connection with the Yonge subway when it opened in 1954. DOVERCOURT and, later, HARBORD cars would connect with the line at Old Weston Road; today, the only legacy of this service is the rarely used Townsley short-turn loop, which lost its streetcar tracks in 2008 (after having them blocked off a few years previously). Finally EARLSCOURT Cars shadowed the St. Clair route, sometimes bolstering St. Clair service between Earlscourt (Lansdowne) loop and Yonge, while other times handling the Mount Pleasant section while St. Clair concentrated on Yonge Street and points west.

One by one, these lines all fell, until St. Clair stood alone. The DOVERCOURT cars were replaced by an extension of the Harbord streetcar in 1941, and then the Lansdowne streetcar transformed into a trolley bus route in 1947. WESTON ROAD fell in 1948, followed by YONGE and BAY (and tracks along Avenue Road) with the opening of the subway in 1954. OAKWOOD fell to an extension of the OSSINGTON trolley bus in 1961. HARBORD cars pulled back from St. Clair in 1957, leaving behind Townsley Loop before disappearing entirely in 1966. That same year, the BATHURST streetcar was cut back to Bloor Street only, although the tracks on Bathurst between Bloor and St. Clair remained. Finally, [ROGERS ROAD]/streetcar/4119.shtml) disappeared in 1974 so that the TTC would have enough streetcars to staff the fleet while it looked for the next generation. In 1975, the section of the St. Clair streetcar east of Yonge was lopped off to form an independent MOUNT PLEASANT route, but politics intervened, and the line was converted to trolley coach operation in 1976.

With only three routes operating out of St. Clair Carhouse on Wychwood Avenue (a truncated BATHURST, EARLSCOURT and ST. CLAIR), it wasn’t long before the TTC decided to consolidate its operations and moved its off-duty streetcars to Roncesvalles.

St. Clair Carries On Alone

Finally, in 1978, things stabilized. St. Clair West station opened as part of the SPADINA SUBWAY, accomplishing what the first engineers failed to do - stabilizing the crossing over the Nordheimer Ravine. In the early 1980s, the line’s faithful companion, EARLSCOURT, disappeared as an independent operation, killed by the route-name restructuring brought about by the new CLRV streetcars. There was no reduction in service, however; EARLSCOURT’s legacy continued as a rush-hour branch of the ST. CLAIR service.

Despite all of these changes, ST. CLAIR is one of the healthiest routes on the system. It’s well travelled, and passes through some of the most interesting neighbourhoods in the city. The width of the street has allowed the TTC to take some measures in keeping the automobiles off the tracks, enhancing reliability of the service. ST. CLAIR operates in isolation, connected with the rest of the system by a set of tracks on Bathurst Street that don’t see revenue service. This hasn’t stopped ST. CLAIR from seeing some expansion, however. On Monday, July 27, 1981, the old Keele Loop was closed, and service began on an additional 1100 feet of double track laid down further west to the new loop on Maybank (now called Gunns) Avenue.

Night service on the ST. CLAIR streetcar ended in February 2000, when buses took over the route. The change allowed the TTC to extend night service west of Keele to Jane and south on Jane to Jane Station with no increase in operating costs due to the long layovers St. Clair streetcars had at St Clair Station when the line operated only as far as Keele. That same month, the TTC announced that St. Clair streetcars leaving service would enter Bathurst Station and pick up passengers there in the hopes of increasing service on Bathurst, making use of the long deadhead runs the St. Clair cars already experience.

Private Right-of-Way and the Future

After the success of new streetcar services operating on private right-of-way on Spadina Avenue and Queen’s Quay, the TTC looked at ways of expanding private rights-of-way elsewhere in the system. Quickly, its gaze fell on St. Clair Avenue.

Unlike other streetcars operating in downtown Toronto, ST. CLAIR streetcars plied a street that was significantly wider. Until the 1930s, the line had been operating on private right-of-way. More importantly, the tracks on the route were nearing the end of their design life, and needed rebuilding anyway. The TTC estimated that, if they upgraded the tracks to a private right-of-way, they could upgrade the line into a Spadina-style operation for just $7 million more than had already been budgeted to simply repair the tracks.

As this was a significant enhancement of transit service, requiring changes to the street, the proposal had to go through an environmental assessment process. Despite being supported by the majority of residents who came out to speak at the meetings, the proposal ran into spirited opposition by a group of merchants who referred to themselves as Save Our St. Clair. City council approved the proposal early in 2005, and construction began, only to be stopped by a court injunction, leaving St. Clair Avenue torn up around the Yonge Street intersection.

SOS argued that council’s decision was illegal, since while the St. Clair right-of-way proposal conformed to the 2002 official plan, that plan still had to be ratified by the Ontario Municipal Board, pending appeals. The 1994 official plan made no mention of higher-order transit for St. Clair. The court decision was overturned on appeal, and, while the case was re-heard, the 2002 official plan was ratified by the Ontario Municipal Board. The appeal court found in favour of the city, and construction resumed in May 2006, months behind schedule. The project was originally projected to be complete by the end of 2008. Further delays, problems in coordinating the work crews of the TTC, Toronto Hydro, the Toronto Roads Department, among others, as well as plain bad luck pushed this date back to the end of 2009. Service was only able to resume to Lansdowne Avenue on December 20, 2009, with service to Gunn’s Loop west of Keele unable to start until June 30, 2010.

In spite of the fancy new boarding platforms, the 512 ST. CLAIR route was not initially going to be the first place for the new Flexity LRV streetcars to operate. The platforms, which had been built before plans for the LRV streetcars could be finalized, had to be modified slightly to allow for smooth operation of the vehicles, and St. Clair West station remained a non-accessible station. However, delays to the delivery of the Flexity LRVs and the completion of elevators connecting the bus terminal to the subway platforms at St. Clair West station caused the TTC to rethink this, and the first service Flexity LRVs began operating on Sunday, September 3, 2017. This required some changes to the loading arrangements at St. Clair West, with westbound LRVs now detraining and boarding at the old unloading platform, and the eastbound LRVs taking all of the old loading platform.

Now that work on the St. Clair right-of-way is done, the next extension to the Toronto streetcar network could take the ST. CLAIR streetcar to Dundas and Runnymede, to St. Clair and Jane, or possibly even to St. Clair and Scarlett Road. If the Runnymede arrangement is chosen, cars will turn back at a loop that, before 1968, used to see Dundas cars beginning their runs into the city. The TTC believes that with the major redevelopment continuing on the former slaughterhouse lands, the demands for transit will increase. Already, St. Clair west of Runnymede has increased from no service to a branch of the 79 SCARLETT bus. The TTC has asked the City of Toronto to take steps to protect the right of way along St. Clair Avenue and have suggested that if any developer were to pay for the construction of these tracks, they would be happy to run streetcars on them.

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512 St Clair Image Archive

	Crowds gather on May 14, 1932 to celebrate and watch the first TTC streetcars to pass through the new underpass beneath the Canadian National Railroad tracks that had previously blocked ST. CLAIR streetcars from going west of Old Weston Road. Service was extended on this date from Townsley loop to Keele loop. Photo courtesy the Toronto Archives. Thanks to crash8668 for the correction.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4528 prepares to pull off of St. Clair at Wychwood on June 1, 1953. Photo by Richard Glaze.
	TTC A9-class ex-Cincinnati all-electric PCCs #4559 and 4568 lay over at Moore Park Loop northeast of the Mount Pleasant/St. Clair service. This photo was taken by Richard Glaze on July 4, 1954.
	When the Yonge subway opened, four different streetcar services used the single track platform at St. Clair station: Earlscourt cars running westbound to Lansdowne, St. Clair cars running eastbound to Keele, Rogers Road rush-hour cars running westbound to Bicknell, and St. Clair cars running eastbound to Eglinton and Mount Pleasant. To alert riders arriving on the platform where the waiting streetcars were heading, the TTC had signs which lit up, telling riders the streetcar's destination. This photograph is courtesy the Toronto Archives.
	On August 31, 1957, a TTC bus in service on 71 RUNNYMEDE heads south on Runnymede Road, approaching the CPR Underpass. The streetcar tracks had been laid down Runnymede from Dundas to St. Clair in the late 1920s, to link to a carhouse at St. Clair and Runnymede that never materialized. The tracks were torn up with roadwork a few years after this shot was taken. Now, nearly 60 years later, there's a possibility tracks may be laid down again for an extension of the ST. CLAIR streetcar. Photo by James Victor Salmon, courtesy the Toronto Public Library.
	TTC A14-class ex-Kansas City all-electric PCC #4751 has met the switch to Keele loop and is about to bypass it, turning up Weston Road for a rush-hour run to Avon Loop on June 26, 1965. Note the "NORTHLAND" destination sign. Howard Wayt took this photograph.
	TTC A14-class ex-Kansas City all-electric PCC #4767 loops through old Keele loop (located on the east side of Keele Street, north of St. Clair) on July 5, 1968. Photo by Doug Grotjahn, from the collection of Joseph Testagrose.
	TTC A14-class ex-Kansas City all-electric PCC #4765 loads passengers at old Keele loop on July 15, 1968. Photo by CGP, from the collection of Joseph Testagrose.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4537 heads westbound on St. Clair Avenue West, passing the Timothy Eaton church and approaching the site of today's St. Clair West station on December 29, 1968. This photograph is by John F. Bromley.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4541 has just turned from southbound Mt. Pleasant onto westbound St. Clair, in ST. CLAIR service. A GM New Look on the 88 SOUTH LEASIDE route follows behind. This shot was taken in August 1971. The photographer is unknown and the image is courtesy of the Pete Coulman collection.
	TTC A14-class ex-Kansas City PCC #4757 heads eastbound on St. Clair, approaching Bathurst in ST. CLAIR service in this August 1971. The photographer is unknown.
	TTC A14-class ex-Kansas City all-electric PCC #4757 crosses Moore Avenue northbound on Mount Pleasant in ST. CLAIR streetcar service in this May 1972 shot by Richard Glaze.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4506 operates southbound on Mount Pleasant, approaching the north end of Mount Pleasant Cemetery. This June 1972 photograph was taken by Richard Glaze.
	TTC A14-class ex-Kansas City all-electric PCC #4766 heads westbound on St. Clair, crossing Oakwood in ST. CLAIR service. This photo was taken by Richard Glaze circa June 1973.
	TTC A15-class ex-Kansas City all-electric PCC #4777 picks up passengers at St. Clair station's loading area on June 28, 1973. This photograph by Steve Zabel is from the collection of Joseph Testagrose. Nineteen years after the opening of the subway, multiple streetcar services still use St. Clair station, giving the indicator sign a reason to exist.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4529 prepares to cross Oakwood, westbound in ST. CLAIR service. This shot was taken circa September 1973 by Richard Glaze.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4556 trundles west on St. Clair, past Russell Hill, in this May 1975 shot by Ian Folkard. Note the yellow lines that have been painted over the tracks in the TTC's attempt to keep the cars off. The experiment would prove to be unsuccessful.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC 4518 has just left Keele Loop, turning on St.Clair Avenue West. By the end of the century, industrial buildings were redeveloped into a residential neighbourhood and streetcar operations moved to Gunns Loop further west on St.Clair. Photo by W.N.Carr, December, 1975.
	TTC A14-class ex-Kansas City all-electric PCC #4759 drops off passengers at St. Clair station in this February 1976 shot. Richard Glaze took this photo. The streetcar is on a charter, explaining the slightly unusual rollsign exposure.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4547 heads westbound on St. Clair Avenue, towards Deer Park in this September 1976 shot by Richard Glaze.
	TTC work crews, including a overhead line car, work on the temporary tracks around St. Clair West Station in this November 1976 shot by Richard Graze. This photo was taken on St. Clair and Tweedsmiur, looking northeast.
	TTC A8-class PCC #4530 pulls onto the temporary bypass around the construction of St. Clair West station. This shot sees the car heading westbound at Tweedsmuir. This photo was taken by Richard Glaze circa April 1977.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4524 pulls out of the newly-constructed underground terminal at St. Clair West station, approaching Bathurst Street, on September 26, 1977. Photo by Richard Glaze.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4535 heads westbound on St. Clair through trackwork, passing Pinewood in ST. CLAIR service. This shot was taken by Richard Glaze on September 26, 1977.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4539 heads westbound on St. Clair Avenue, approaching Christie Street in ST. CLAIR service. This photo was taken by Richard Glaze on September 26, 1977.
	A TTC all-electric PCC heads eastbound on St. Clair, entering St. Clair West station as crews remove the temporary track around the station entrance. This photo was taken by Richard Glaze on September 26, 1977.
	TTC A8-class PCC #4514 heads eastbound on St. Clair, crossing Bathurst towards St. Clair West station while TTC GM New Look #3569 follows in 90 VAUGHAN service in this 1980 shot. The photographer is unknown.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4527 sits at St. Clair West subway station, ahead of the opening ceremonies for the SPADINA subway on January 28, 1978. The photographer is unknown and the image is courtesy the Bob Eisthen collection.
	TTC A9-class ex-Cincinnati all-electric PCC #4552 heads westbound in ST. CLAIR service near Deer Park on April 26, 1978. Photo by Bryce Lee.
	TTC A9-class all-electric ex-Cincinnati PCC #4554 prepares to cross Bathurst Street, westbound in ST. CLAIR streetcar service. This shot was taken circa May 1978 by Richard Glaze.
	TTC A9-class ex-Cincinnati all-electric PCC #4574 stops at the passenger pick-up location at St. Clair West station in this shot taken by Richard Glaze circa June 1978.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4514 pauses at St. Clair West station in ST. CLAIR service in this August 1978 shot by Richard Glaze.
	TTC CLRV #4020 departs Keele Loop on July 14, 1980, before it would be redeveloped and replaced by Maybank Loop later that year. The paved-over tracks leading to Avon Loop can be clearly seen poking up from the pavement. This photograph was taken by John F. Bromley.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4514 slips out of a short stretch of private right-of-way and southbound onto Keele Street in this July 14, 1980 scene caught by Joseph Testagrose. The loop would be demolished soon thereafter and replaced with a new loop at Maybank Avenue (now Gunns) further west. The tracks seen here are in poor condition.
	TTC A6-class all-electric PCC #4391 turns from St. Clair onto Keele, with CLRV #4004 pulling up behind, both in 512 ST. CLAIR service on July 17, 1980. The photographer is unknown and the image is courtesy the Bob Eisthen collection.
	Brand-new CLRV #4087 exits the tunnel entrance at St.Clair West station, on its way to Keele Loop. Photo by W.N.Carr in September 1980.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4546 turns from St. Clair onto Keele Street to head to Keele Loop. The days of this loop are numbered at this point, as work is starting on the construction of Maybank Loop further west. This shot was taken on May 23, 1981, by Richard Glaze.
	TTC CLRV #4132 rounds Keele Loop at the west end of the 512 ST. CLAIR route. This shot was taken by Richard Glaze on May 24, 1981, one of the last days of service.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4543 and a CLRV pause at Keele Loop in ST. CLAIR service. This shot was taken on May 24, 1981, by Richard Glaze.
	TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4524 pauses at newly-opened Maybank Loop (today's Gunn's Loop) on August 31, 1981. Photo by L. Swanson.
	TTC A8-class PCC #4531 in service on 512 ST. CLAIR meets GM New Look bus #7357 in service on 71 RUNNYMEDE at the newly-opened Maybank Loop on October 3, 1981. This photo was taken by Harvey R. Naylor.
	TTC CLRV #4011 heads westbound on St. Clair approaching Robina in 512 ST. CLAIR service on July 1, 1983. Photo by William J. Madden.
	TTC ALRV #4223 approaches the entrance to St. Clair West Station from the west, during a charter in 1998. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC ALRV #4223 enters Oakwood Loop via Robina Avenue. Back then (in 1998), railfans were treated to a rare sight: cobblestone insets! The loop was almost as it was when Rogers Road cars last operated, in 1974. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC ALRV #4223 poses at Oakwood Loop in 1998 while charter passengers break for lunch. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC ALRV #4223 poses in Townsley Loop during a 1998 charter. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC ALRV #4223 waits behind a revenue CLRV laying over at St. Clair Station in this 1998 scene. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC A15-class rebuilt PCC #4549 pauses in Earlscourt Loop at the southwest corner of Lansdowne and St. Clair. Earlscourt Cars used to make their home here. The last remnant of this service is a meagre morning rush-hour branch. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC A15-class rebuilt PCC #4549 poses beside CLRV on the passing track of St. Clair West Station, on a 1999 charter. Photo by James Bow.
	Three CLRVs gather at Gunns Loop at the start of day on January 2000. Gunns Loop replaced old Keele Loop in the mid 1980s but may be made obsolete in coming years if service is extended further west. Currently, connections are made with a branch of the Runnymede bus. Photo by Rob Hutchinson.
	TTC A15-class rebuilt PCC #4500 sits in the tailtrack of Gunns Loop during an August 2002 fan trip. The loop would be completely rebuilt, eliminating the tail track, seven years later. Photo by Ian Folkard.
	The finishing touches were still being put onto the new right-of-way on March 15, 2007, but already it's effective in getting cars out of the streetcar's way. TTC CLRV #4067 heads west towards Avenue Road, passing cars along the way. Photo by Ian Folkard.
	TTC CLRV #4181 heads eastbound on St. Clair, as seen here at Oakwood Avenue, before the installation of private right-of-way. Despite the clear width of the street, a car has managed to get in the streetcar's way. This 2009 photograph is by Rob Hutchinson.
	Westbound CLRV 4166 enters a tunnel at St. Clair West Station on December 19, 2009, the last day of the streetcars' short-turn operation between two subway stations. Starting the next day, they would return west of Bathurst, looping at Earlscourt Loop. Photo by Roman Fomin.
	TTC CLRV #4038 poses at Earlscourt Loop on December 29, 2009. The rest of the 512 Route (from Earlscourt to Gunns Loop) is being served by shuttle buses. Snapped by Roman Fomin.
	TTC CLRV #4190 picks up passengers at the newly rebuilt Gunns' Loop on the morning of September 17, 2010. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC CLRV #4193 picks up passengers at the newly rebuilt Gunns' Loop on September 17, 2010. The new shelters and landscaping were added and the loop was completely realigned (changed from clockwise to counter-clockwise operation) as part of the TTC's conversion of the line to private right-of-way. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC CLRV #4193 pulls into the westbound Old Weston Road stop on the newly rebuilt 512 ST. CLAIR line in the morning of September 17, 2010. Note the new shelter. Photo by James Bow.
	Caught by Roman Fomin, CLRV #4183 heads west on St. Clair Avenue towards Gunns Loop. The photo was taken on April 24, 2011.
	TTC CLRV #4175 is joined by sister #4120, headed east to the Yonge Subway. This 2012 photograph is by Eliot Rossi.
	TTC CLRV 4175 lays over in the St. Clair West passing track. This 2012 photograph is by Eliot Rossi.
	TTC Flexity LRV #4436 sits behind a CLRV as it waits for passengers at the St. Clair station loading bay in 512 ST. CLAIR service. This shot was taken by James Bow on September 28, 2017.
	TTC Flexity LRV #4436 pulls into Earlscourt loop on a short turn for 512 ST. CLAIR on the afternoon of September 28, 2017. Photo by James Bow.
	TTC Flexity LRV #4445 heads eastbound on St. Clair towards Yonge Street in 512 ST. CLAIR service on November 11, 2017. Photo by James Bow.

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References

• Bromley, John F., and Jack May Fifty Years of Progressive Transit, Electric Railroaders’ Association, New York (New York), 1978.
• Filey, Mike, Not a One-Horse Town: 125 Years of Toronto and its Streetcars, Gagne Printing, Louiseville (Quebec), 1986.
• Hood, J. William, The Toronto Civic Railways: An Illustrated History, The Upper Canada Railway Society, Toronto (Ontario), 1986.

Thanks to John Bromley and Ray Corley for their corrections to this web page. Thanks to New York City Subway Resources for the use of their images for this page.