. The Street railway journal . VIEW IN KING STREET—TORONTO, striut tile old horse rail\va\ lines, and to make exten-sions into new territory and through streets whichwere sadly in need of proper facilities. The presentsystem is seen in the accompanying map. It shows thelines not only of the main system of the TorontoRailway Company within the city limits, but of thetwo suburban lines which have been built in the Till: STREET RAIEWAY JOURXAL SOUVEXIR. OcKJliEK, 189:. suiiie interests, but under separate organizations, theTf)ronto & Mimico Electric Railway Company and theToronto &: Scarboro Elec
. The Street railway journal . VIEW IN KING STREET—TORONTO, striut tile old horse rail\va\ lines, and to make exten-sions into new territory and through streets whichwere sadly in need of proper facilities. The presentsystem is seen in the accompanying map. It shows thelines not only of the main system of the TorontoRailway Company within the city limits, but of thetwo suburban lines which have been built in the Till: STREET RAIEWAY JOURXAL SOUVEXIR. OcKJliEK, 189:. suiiie interests, but under separate organizations, theTf)ronto & Mimico Electric Railway Company and theToronto &: Scarboro Electric Railway Company. The backbone of the entire Toronto system is theQueen Street line, extending from the extreme eastern tothe extreme western part of the city, a distance of overeight miles (and of thirteen miles including the Toronto& Mimico extension). Yonge Street is the important northand south Imsiness thoroughfare of the city, and intothis street turn the cars of many of the other lines. Theprincipal business district is bounded by Front, Sher-bourne. College and McCall Streets, and to this sectioncome nearly all the cars of the city. The railroad sta-tions and steamboat landings are south of Front of the most popular pleasure riding routes of thecity is the Belt Line, running through Sherbourne,Bloor, Spadina, King, York and Front Streets—a com-plete circuit of the city, to make which a single fare onlyis necessary. The gr
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