Caption: Lined up and ready to be dispatched for evening rush hour duties, TTC 4441 and a bunch of her sister PCC cars crowd the yard tracks outside Lansdowne Carhouse under cloudy afternoon skies in August of 1955. The route display rollsigns (front, right side) on the closest cars show Carlton for their last assignment, while the destination rollsigns (front, left side) say Lansdowne, for when they short turned and headed back to the carhouse at the end of morning service. Note some still have the front silver headlight ring that was being removed from all of the cars.

Eventually peaking at a total of 745 new and secondhand cars, by this time in the 50's Toronto's PCC streetcar fleet was the largest in North America (and by extension, the world). The opening of the Bloor-Danforth subway and its extensions in the mid-late 60's saw many of the older cars retired and disposed of, and some secondhand cars were sold off in the 70's to other transit agencies. The bulk of the PCC fleet were phased out in the 80's by new CLRV and ALRV streetcars, with a select few rebuilt and living on in harbourfront service before being retired and sold off in the late 90's. Two PCC streetcars, 4500 & 4549, were kept and are used on occasion for special event and charter service.

Original photographer unknown (Al Chione duplicate slide), from the Dan Dell'Unto collection.