PCC 3510 has just turned back onto the private right-of-way alongside Decarie Boulevard, starting another downtown-bound trip from Garland Terminal in the Snowdon neighborhood.

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Montreal Tramways Company | Montreal Transportation Commission

PCC 3510 has just turned back onto the private right-of-way alongside Decarie Boulevard, starting another downtown-bound trip from Garland Terminal in the Snowdon neighborhood. Garland Terminus, which featured two loops, opened in 1949 replacing Snowdon Junction loop less than a mile ahead of 3510 to the south. The Decarie family had a large farm in the area. They donated a strip of land in the 1890s for a right-of-way on the condition that there would always be a rail rapid transit line on it. When a depressed expressway was built here along the former streetcar right-of-way, the family's descendants objected in the courts saying it was against their ancestors' wishes.

Courtesy the Bill Volkmer collection; caption data from Joe Heckenast

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