This T.T.C station is being altered to reflect its connection to the Royal Ontario Museum.


This picture shows the southern-most end of the Museum Station on the University Line.

Interestingly, the bars you see on the left were originally built to temporarily house any people arrested at demonstrations.

It is now used to hold parts and equipment.



The old, 60's era washroom tile design alongside the new terra cotta-like tiles.



The columns are being altered to look like mummies, totem poles and other artifacts.

In this case, they look like roman columns.



It will cost the about $350,000 to renovate the station with the TTC and private donations providing the money.




If you look closely, you can see tiny figures inside the lettering.



In Transit published an article regarding this station in November of 2005.

Here in Toronto, we have "The Red Rocket" - our trolleys, or streetcars, as we like to call them.



Transportation in Toronto was originally a privately-owned service that began in 1849.


In later years, a few routes were operated by the city, but it was in 1921 when the city took over all routes and formed the Toronto Transportation Commission to operate them.
During this period service was mainly provided by streetcars.


In 1954, the TTC opened its first subway line, and greatly expanded its service area to cover the newly formed municipality of Metropolitan Toronto.


There are three subway lines and one rapid transit line with a total of 69 stations, as well as 149 connecting "surface" routes, consisting of buses and streetcars.
One of these days, the folks who plan and operate this system will pull themselves out of the seventies, and expand the system so that it serves more Torontonians.

This is the famous City Hall Loop.

When the TTC took over the transportation, from The Toronto Railway Company (in 1921) it set about connecting the Dundas East tracks with the Dundas West tracks. Tracks were built over the bridge across the Don River to Broadview, and over the gap between Victoria and Bay streets, but no through service was established.

In the west, Dundas cars operated from a loop at Runnymede Road, along Dundas Street, to Elizabeth, looping via Elizabeth, Louisa, James and Albert Streets.

When the massive new Eaton Centre development started construction in the early 1970s, the TTC stopped operation to City Hall Loop on a 'temporary' basis. The TTC claimed that the loop would reopen, providing direct streetcar service to the doors of the Eaton Centre, but that never materialized. The City Hall Loop operations moved east on January 6, 1975 to an on-street arrangement of Church, Queen and Victoria. This branch of the streetcar line faded to a rush-hour only operation, and then disappeared altogether on June 20, 1986.