While I was in Toronto recently, I had the opportunity to take a few shots of light rail vehicles / trams / streetcars / trolleys. Who knows what to call these?
The Spadina Avenue / King Street area was a great place to see trams. Look at that web of tracks and wires!
Grand River Transit serves the Kitchener-Waterloo area with buses and the Ion light rail system. Ion is a long single line running roughly north-south through the region, with numerous bus connections.
I took the LRT from Kitchener to downtown Waterloo to visit The Bakery by Ce Food Experience. They have a lot of great gluten free options and I left with an armload of baked goodies.
Generally speaking in the Toronto or Ontario area
If it predominantly runs on the street (call it legacy) like the TTC stuff you took pictures of it is called a Streetcar (Europeans and potentially other non-North American places tend to call them trams)
The LRT is basically a PR driven rebranding of the Streetcar where the main location is a dedicated right of way separated from traffic
further, the LRT rebranding isn’t always perfect – the Spadina, Harbourfront and St. Clair routes for example are still called streetcars because originally their tracks were in the middle of the street but in recent times they have been upgrade to having dedicated right of ways.
Toronto is a fun place for a railfan/tramfan to visit. They have an interesting variety of vehicles and you can buy a daypass and travel all around . Seeing different types on different routes; I enjoyed the Queens Quay. I’m in Quebec, south shore Montreal. They got rid of their streetcars (yes they called them trams) and I’ll bet they wish today they hadn’t. I never got to ride them or the south shore electric M & SC .
The iON and TTC cars look like Maglev to me. They seem to be hovering.