Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . Progress continues to made on the restoration of the roundhouse and the turntable. Western Mechanical continues to fine tune the turntable and the track in the pit as we move towards making the turntable fully operational. . Yesterday,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . This week we had to remove a 39 foot track panel from in front of the CLC Whitcomb to allow Steam Whistle Brewing to take delivery of several new beer tanks. Today, the TRHA’s contractor re-installed the missing
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . At the above left, we see the team of Russ M., Dan G., Michael G. and Dave W. who assembled last Saturday at 9:45 a.m. to pretty much complete the salvaging of artefacts and other useful materials before
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . . Each year, The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) has Holiday Trains which hit the rails on December 1st visiting over 100 communities in seven states and six provinces to raise food, money and awareness for local food banks.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . As announced earlier in the news column, the TRHA was there last weekend at the Christmas Train Show, the largest annual railway themed event in the Toronto Area. Derek Boles updated our traditional display of historical pictures with a new
Click on the centre button above to watch the video .The turntable should have moved this morning but did not solely due to a lack of the correct centre bearing lubricant. A five-gallon pail of “the right stuff” is expected to arrive tomorrow. Once it does arrive, we will move
Click on each picture for a closer look! . It was a dark and stormy night – no wait, wrong fairy-tale. It was a wet and muddy day at the John St Roundhouse as work continued on the turntable restoration, roundhouse interior renovations and a little track-work off
The largest train show by far held annually in the Toronto area is the Christmas Train Show to be held this year on Saturday, November 24th (noon to 5:00 p.m.) and Sunday, November 25th (10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) at the International Centre on Airport Road just north of the
Click on the picture for a closer look! . This picture from the Toronto Public Archives shows Union Station under construction prior to its opening in 1927. . On Wednesday, November 14th, Toronto Mayor David Miller publicly unveiled the city’s new plan for the restoration and redevelopment of Union Station.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . As the Eastern Finals prior to the Grey Cup next week were being played across the street, the Raptors played a block away and the Santa Claus parade wended its way through Toronto a few blocks away, a TRHA