radial cars Archives - Birch Cliff News

Digging up old ties

October 18, 2021
By Hedy Korbee
Kingston Road, radial cars, reconstruction, streetcar

Construction workers on Kingston Road have started digging up fascinating pieces of Birch Cliff’s past - the old streetcar tracks that were laid in 1928. Large excavators have been rumbling down the centre of the...

Birch Cliff P.S. History Part 2

December 9, 2012
By Hedy Korbee
Birch Cliff Public School, history, radial cars, Scarboro Heights, St. Nicholas Church

This is part two of our series on the history of Birch Cliff Public School, written by an unknown author in 1966 for the school's 50th anniversary. A first-day pupil at Birch Cliff Public School...

Photo of the Day Aug. 29, 2012

August 29, 2012
By Hedy Korbee
buses, radial cars, Scarborough

Here's a fabulous photo depicting the transition from radial cars to buses in Scarborough. It's 1936 and workers are removing the radial car tracks while a bus passes by in the foreground. Electric radial cars started...