Click on each picture for a closer look! . . On Wednesday this week, a team of TRHA volunteers undertook to clear a big chunk of the roundhouse machine shop floor space. Mostly this consisted of using a forklift to move skid loads of “Heritage Bricks”, saved from the demolished
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Over the past few weekends, we have been training a number of our volunteers to operate the turntable as is shown in these two photos. . As the TRHC moves closer to opening there will be training opportunities in additional areas
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . . This week Dave, Wilson, James R., Lance, Ron and Arno joined the Saturday work team. As a result of their collective efforts – the lorry is finally done and on its wheels, we have electric light in
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . A major challenge for the TRHA in the development of Roundhouse Park was the design and development of a railway crossing to allow two tracks to cross. What was unusual in our case was the fact that one of the
Click on the picture for a closer look! . TRHA is pleased to thank our Toronto Railway Heritage Centre neighbours, Cam and Greg at Steam Whistle Brewing, for the generous donation of a Bio-Diesel fill-up for our workhorse locomotive, the CLC-built Whitcomb industrial switcher . by Michael Guy, TRHA http://www.trha.ca
Click on the picture for a closer look! . Today, with the wood repairs complete and the steel guide shoe bolted back in place, a TRHA crew replaced the boxcar door. Dave is touching up some screw heads with red primer. The entire Fowler boxcar will eventually undergo a complete
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Today at the roundhouse a TRHA restoration team lifted one of the doors from the Fowler boxcar for a little remedial woodwork. The middle photo shows the back of the door, generally in good shape except for the lower edge where
.As mentioned in the last news item, the TRHA, working with the Toronto Live Steamers and the Golden Horseshoe Live Steamers (http://www.ghls.ca/) installed the TRHA’s portable miniature railway track and offered steam train and diesel riding experiences to everyone attending. Over 1,400 people rode on the train making this a
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . Each year, the TRHA, in partnership with the Toronto Live Steamers and the Golden Horseshoe Live Steamers, brings a miniature railway operation to the fabulous Milton Steam Era event over Labour Day weekend at the Milton Fairgounds in the heart
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . In our final installment of this “tale of five bridges”, we visit a bridge which is a road bridge BUT involves the use of rails and once again the innovative folks at Western Mechanical. . As a young