Definitions

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  • noun US A garage attached to a house
  • noun US, dated A storage area for streetcars

Etymologies

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car +‎ house

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Examples

  • If the TTC and City decide to extend the current 3 Scarborough rapid transit line and convert it to light rail, this carhouse would serve that line, too.

    Transit Toronto - Weblog 2010

  • The new carhouse will let the TTC store and maintain the vehicles that it needs to operate the Sheppard East light rail Transit City line that it recently started to build.

    Transit Toronto - Weblog 2010

  • You can find out more about the future Ashbridges carhouse here and here.

    Transit Toronto - Weblog 2010

  • Sheppard: Cut back from Meadowvale to Conlins Road (the carhouse site), a relatively small change.

    Steve Munro's Web Site 2010

  • Who knows when or if the Jane line (another user of the Finch carhouse) will ever connect Finch to the rest of the network?

    Steve Munro's Web Site 2010

  • Riverdale and Beach area residents dropped by the site of the Ashbridges carhouse - the future streetcar maintenance and storage facility at the southeast corner of Lake Shore Boulevard East and Leslie Street - to check out three proposals to landscape the public area of the site.

    Transit Toronto - Weblog 2010

  • And four years later, the building was torn down by the Boston Elevated Railway Company and rebuilt into the carhouse that eventually became Accardi's work space.

    Boston.com Most Popular 2010

  • Bradley H. Clarke, president of the Boston Street Railway Association, said the space was originally used for horse-drawn streetcars, before the subway era, as a carhouse and stable in

    Boston.com Most Popular 2010

  • But even as generations of stock clerks have come and gone, the carhouse lore has not been forgotten.

    Boston.com Most Popular 2010

  • Finch West is an isolated route with its own carhouse to support one line only slightly longer than than SRT.

    Steve Munro's Web Site 2010

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