[4][5] An article in a 1978 issue of the TTC's internal magazine, The Coupler, asserts that the carhouse is named for T.A.

[9] A separate traffic office building was constructed at the corner of Queen Street and Connaught Avenue.

[10][11] In August 1928, the ladder tracks at the south end of the Russell yard were moved 15 feet (4.6 m) to the north in order to widen Eastern Avenue to 4 lanes.

[13][14] The site chosen for the Leslie Barns carhouse was only a few hundred yards away from the Russell facility.

Eastern Avenue at that location was narrowed to build a fence to keep road and pedestrian traffic off the ladder switches.

The ladder area at the south end of the carhouse building was regraded to reduce the effect of sharp curves on a grade.

[18] In September 2015, Russell Carhouse serviced about half of the system's CLRV and ALRV streetcar fleet.

[19] In January 2020, after retirement of the CLRV and ALRV fleet, the Russell Carhouse served only 501 Queen using Flexity Outlook streetcars.

Tracks will be replaced and the carhouse building will be extended and its interior modified to service low-floor streetcars.

[27] In a review of the effectiveness of Doors Open as an educational tool, Allana Mayer, of the association of Art Libraries of North America, listed the Russell Carhouse as one of four "crowd favourites".