4/8 The aging infrastructure's dangers became clear in July 2023 when the Scarborough RT derailed, sending five people to hospital. Meanwhile, Line 2 subway cars reach their 30-year service life in 2026, but replacements from Thunder Bay won't arrive until 2030.
#ScarboroughRT #AgingInfrastructure
Our very own Damian Baranowski will have his Scarborough RT photos presented in the East Streets: Scarborough exhibit at the Worth Gallery this week.
Be sure to check it out!
#TTC #Scarborough #ScarboroughRT #ScarboroughSpots #Line3 #Toronto
Two RT Cars, sitting on the outside of McCowan yard.
#TTC #taketheTTC #TransitToronto #Scarborough #ScarboroughTransit #ScarboroughRT #Line3 #RIPLine3
Work cars on the RT track near Kennedy Station.
📷Edward Wickson
⌚November 11, 1989
#TTC #Scarborough #ScarboroughRT #ScarboroughTransit #Line3 #TakeTheTTC #TransitToronto #ScarboroughSpots #OldTTC
Scarborough RT train doing a test run at Midland Station 11 days before opening.
📷 Edward Wickson
⌚ March 11, 1985
#TTC #Scarborough #ScarboroughRT #ScarboroughTransit #Line3 #TakeTheTTC #TransitToronto #ScarboroughSpots #OldTTC
Car #3007 near Kennedy Station on a test ride.
RT train leaving Kennedy.
Signage pointing attendees to where the preview ride is.
RT at Kennedy with line queue set up for attendees.
Before it opened officially, the Scarborough RT held free preview rides for the general public, between Kennedy Station and Lawrence East Station in the summer of 1984.
📷 L.Swanson, Edward Wickson
⌚Summer 1984
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S-Series (Mark I) car #3012 at UTDC's Millhaven plant.
📷 Unknown
⌚ July 4, 1984
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Kennedy Station (1980).
Just north of Kennedy Station (1982). Kind of sad, how it currently looks like this again.
Kennedy Station (1983). Tracks starting to be laid inside of the station.
3 photos showing construction of the Scarborough RT at Kennedy Station.
📷 L.Swanson.
⌚ 1980, 1982, 1983
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UTDC ICTS Prototype at Millhaven.
📷 Edward Wickson
⌚ September 29, 1978
This would later evolve into the S-Series (Mark I) car that ran on the system for it's entire lifetime.
#TTC #Scarborough #ScarboroughRT #ScarboroughTransit #Line3 #TakeTheTTC #TransitToronto #ScarboroughSpots #OldTTC
Happy 40th birthday to the former Scarborough RT (Line 3)!
On this day in 1985, the Scarborough RT would started operations.
The line closed on July 24, 2023 after a derailment south of Ellesmere Station.
#TTC #Scarborough #ScarboroughRT #Line3 #Line3Scaborough #OldTTC #ScarboroughSpots
A pair of ICTS vehicles pass through Kennedy Loop at the west end of Kennedy station above the kiss'n'ride.
📸 Ted Wickson
⏰ June 25, 1988
#TTC #TakeTheTTC #TransitToronto #Scarborough #Line3 #TTC #ScarboroughRT
The Lawrence East RT/Line 3 Station sits empty and disused (yet still illuminated) with its tracks torn up, after service stopped running in July 2023.
Trackless.
#Toronto #Scarborough #ScarboroughRT #Abandoned #BlackAndWhite #Photography
20 Cliffside moving north past the RT level #toronto #scarborough #ttc #scarboroughrt #line3 #20cliffside #bus #night
Looking up to Line 3 track level by moonlight #toronto #scarborough #kennedystation #ttc #scarboroughrt #line3 #night #moon #moonlight
Memories of the Scarborough RT #toronto #scarborough #kennedystation #scarboroughrt #closed #masstransit #lightrail #photography #history
A Scarborough RT car about to pass under the Moorgate Bridge.
📷 D. Chalmers
⌚ August 8, 1994
#TTC #Scarborough #ScarboroughHistory #ScarboroughSpots #Line3 #SRT #ScarboroughRT #TakeTheTTC
The Line 3 (Scarborough RT) section of Kennedy Station under construction.
📷 L.Swanson
⌚ September 6, 1980
#TTC #TakeTheTTC #ScarboroughRT #Scarborough #ScarboroughTransit #Line3 #ScarboroughSpots #ScarboroughHistory
The Scarborough RT (Line 3) Mark I cars at their new home at the Halton County Radial Railway Museum.
📷 Chris Edwards
#ttc #toronto #hcrr #halton #line3 #scarborough #srt #scarboroughRT #line3 #scarboroughHistory #torontohistory #publictransit
The Scarborough RT passes in front of the Bell Canada office at 100 Borough Drive in Scarborough Ontario in October 2018
The Scarborough Whizzer.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHistory
#Scarborough #Toronto #ScarboroughRT #BellCanada #Photography
