Click on each picture for a closer look! . With our miniature railroad track construction moving along quickly in Roundhouse Park the need to check out our new steam locomotive on an existing railroad with a real load became a priority. On Sunday morning we loaded out from the museum

Click on each picture for a closer look! . We had a great turnout of TRHA volunteers yesterday. It was pretty hot and sunny outside but everyone worked hard from 8:00 a.m. right through to 3:30 p.m. so a lot was accomplished. In the picture at the left above, we

Click on each picture for a closer look! . Now that the contractors have prepared some of the roadbed for the miniature railway, TRHA crews have now begun to install the railway track itself. After some planning and preparations on Thursday, the crew laid about 80 feet of track include

Click on each pictures for a closer look! . As noted in earlier news items, Tom Murison is charged with restoring Cabin D. Tom hired McCulloch Moving, the firm that moved #6213, to to lift the lever frame out of Cabin D. In the photo at the left above, we

Click on each picture for a closer look! . With the arrival of #6213 at the John Street Roundhouse, access to the cab is much easier. In the two pictures at the left above, we find volunteers working in the cab and also experiencing what it felt like to be

Click on each picture for closer look! . Recently, TRHA teams tackled the task of moving the service racks out of the Roundhouse in order to allow the renovations to proceed without impediment. These service racks were used to access the sides of engines for light maintenance work. In the

Click on each picture for a closer look! . It was a miserable wet day at the roundhouse but with a little juggling of the priority list and fourteen of us on hand on Saturday and three briefly on Sunday, we got plenty done anyway. In no particular order here

Click on each picture for a closer look! . The recent movement of steam locomotive No. 6213 from the Exhibition Grounds to Roundhouse Park echoes one of the most important events in Toronto’s early railway history. Construction on the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron, Toronto’s first railway, began in 1852. Since

. Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the past day or so, we expended considerable time and effort to do a trial-fit of #6213 in the three stalls allocated to the museum. The result was somewhat surprising against our expectations. The track we used was stall

Click on each video to watch it!.Here is a video by Dave Wetherald showing #6213’s tender being moved to a radial track at the orundhouse…Here is another video of #6213 on the turntable as found at YouTube..Finally, click here to watch a very innovative video produced by the Toronto Star