Click on the image for a closer look! . Norm Betts is a professional photographer who has been documenting the development of Roundhouse Park. Michael Guy posed for Norm to allow this artful image of work at the roundhouse set against a dramatic night time view of the Toronto skyline.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In this seres of pictures, we get successively closer looks at the mural on the wall of the pedestrian entrance to the Metro Convention Centre underground parking garage. As reported before, this mural is a reproduction of a painting by David
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the pictures at the upper left and middle above, we see a gigantic concrete pump being used to fill the foundation forms of the miniature railway depot building. In the picture at the upper right above, we see the same
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The main entrance to Leon’s new store in the John Street Roundhouse is a foyer which runs the width of the roundhouse as shown in the picture at the left above. In the middle picture above we see one of the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . This past Saturday, our TRHA teams continued to lay track on new roadbed completed by Pine Valley only the day before. We finished the day on even newer right-of-way compacted just a few minutes before we dropped ties and rails in
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The pictures above were taken last Friday and show that progress has been rapid on the development of the depot and turntable for the minaiture railway. Here we see that the forms have been constructed for the foundation walls for both
In our daily news postings we have been documenting the tremendous progress being made on many different fronts in developing the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre. However, we have not posted an overview of what we have done and where we are headed. In the report below, Derek Boles, our TRHA
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Our TRHA team has begun to work on our CP Switcher #7020 to stabilize any deterioration and to perform some cosmetic restoration. In the above pictures, we can see her current condition as our volunteers begin the restoration effort. One of
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at the upper left, we witness a derailment in Roundhouse Park! A bit of enthusiatic pushing over a mud-clogged crossing resulted in our speeder work car hitting the ground. It took the combined efforts of four of us
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Many years ago, the old iron bridge at West Toronto (also called the Junction) was an excellent spot to view and photograph trains working around the diamond. In these four pictures taken from that bridge, we find CP switchers doing what