50 Years of Public Operations at the Streetcar Museum
Our museum, the Halton County Radial Railway, has entered it’s 50th year of public service!
On June 25th, 1972, the Official Opening ceremonies were held at the west end of the property with crane car C-1 being used as a podium. Early arrivals to the event saw the last adjustments being made to the overhead wire in front of Rockwood Station, after which M-5 pulled line car #45 back down the mainline towards Barn #1. Two hours later at the time of the opening ceremonies, the first car to arrive was C-1, moving under its own power for the first time in 5 years. L&PS #8 then arrived over at Rockwood Station, with TCR #55, and #327 behind it.
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Speakers for the event stood on the deck of Ex-Toronto Railway Company crane car C-1. This photo was taken by Brian MacDonald.
Standing on C-1 was R.H. Johns, President of the OERHA, E.E. MacPhail, TTC representative, J.N. Lowe, CNR representative, R. Whitting, Member of Parliament, N. MacGuiness, area candidate for Parliament in next election, Mrs. McArthur, Reeve, Nasaagaweya Township, and John Mills, Author and one of the founding members of our museum.
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London & Port Stanley Railway (L&PS) interurban #8 out front of Rockwood Station. This photo is from the Dick Vincent Collection, which is now in our museum’s archives.
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The TTC’s 1934 replica of 1893 Toronto Railway Company streetcar #327 was out for the event. This photo was taken by Brian MacDonald, who still volunteers for our museum to this day!
Keep scrolling to see more photos of our museum over the decades since it opened to the public!
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000 to Present
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One of the horse-drawn omnibuses was donated from the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa to our museum in April of 2019.
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