20241112. To facilitate work on the Ontario Line (ET Seton Park south of Science Centre). new transmission lines are being added. Note that the transmission towers only have arms on one side to fit into the hydro corridor.
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20220525. The Toronto Hydro-Electric System Windsor Station shadow font.
20220523. Give me more juice!
20220402. The typical Etobicoke Hydro Substation was available in various colours of brick. These buildings use transformers to step down the voltage of electricity for home use.
20211108. Toronto Transmission Tower Tops. Minimal Aesthetic 160.
20210928. The Wiltshire Transformer Station (Edwardian Classical) is looking great after $22 Million in upgrades.
20201215. The vacant Toronto Hydro transformer substation at 281 Cherry Street is a modest example of Edwardian Classical styling from 1928.
20201014. Looking up an old electricity pylon in the most likely abandoned Warden hydro corridor. North of Hwy 401, the towers have been removed and filled in with linear housing developments.
20201008. Fancy Transformer Substation.
20200922. Ventilation at the Copeland underground transformer station. Minimal Aesthetic 152.
20200503. Toronto Hydro’s Windsor Station was built in 1950, uses equipment past its useful life but puts out a maxed out 300 MW of power for the area west of the downtown core.
20190814. A transmission tower framed in a transmission tower.
20190803. Transformer-less Transformer Home 7 awaits demolition.
20190802. Derelict Transformer House 7 awaits demolition.
20190715. Transformer Home 6. A residential electrical substation that steps down voltage for home use. Humber Heights.
20190618. Transformer House 5. This transformer-containing #modernist shell structure in Bayview Village doesn’t really look like a house as it has no door or windows.
20190611. Transformer House 4. This shell house containing a stepdown transformer features a garage and a garden.
20190420. The bronzed weathervane-equipped exhaust vents on the 1926 Danforth Avenue Transformer Substation designed by A.E. Salisbury.
20150831. Does this Toronto Hydro Substation have a heritage designation? 18 Portland Street.
20150827. Toronto Hydro Electric System sub-system D. City Architect Robert McCallum, 1910.
