Continuing with your field trip to watch snow plows in action, in the video above, we find the Illinois Live Steamers have constructed a simple “rotary snow plow”. Here, they use their 4-8-4 Northern Steam Engine to clear theack for some winter operations! In the video below, we see two
With the wicked winter we are continuing to experience, it is an appropriate time to enjoy some videos of the dramatic visuals that can be captured by photographing diesel engines with their mutli-thousand horsepower engines pushing snow plows at high speed into drifts of snow. Click on each of these
Now that the preparations for our recent Volunteer and Staff Christmas party are behind us, our restoration team has turned its attention back to the Cape Race passenger car. As most of our community knows, we had the roof professionally rebuilt a couple of years ago. Now, our near term
Among miniature railway enthusiasts, one railway modeler on the west coats in Oregon is quite famous for the 11,000 foot miniature railways he has developed personally, rather than as part of a club. In an online posting he has noted that as he grows older and spends half the year
Toronto Hydro has just announced that a The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) will arrive on-site tomorrow (Saturday, February 1) in Roundhouse Park. Over the next three months, this 176 ton machine will dig its way north until it meets the existing tunnel beneath the intersection of Lower Simcoe and Front
Despite frigid conditions this past weekend, the Winter Craft Beer Festival still drew substantial crowds to Roundhouse Park. To accommodate the crowds, the festival used our Watchman’s Shanty to sell tickets and Don Station as a warming pavilion to take the chill of patrons. A diesel-powered heating system pumped in
Railroads were so important in the early part of the last century that Railroad Fairs were held to celebrate the important role of the railway in society. The Chicago Railroad Fair was organized to celebrate and commemorate 100 years of railroad history west of Chicago, Illinois. It was held in
Much has been published recently about drone technology and the imminent explosion of their use for commercial freight traffic in the air in the next few years. Drone technology in the form of radio controlled “quadcopters” is even available to amateurs for an investment of a couple of thousand dollars.
On Saturday, January 18th, the TRHA held its annual post-Christmas party to celebrate our progress and success in 2013. 65 guests turned out for the evening and relaxed in both the Nova Scotia and the Cape Race as we relaxed in the “TRHA Hot Stove Lounge” where we lounged on
Our volunteers continue to be very busy on weekends both operating the museum but also in tackling the many tasks involved with our restoration efforts. Here are summary reports on the efforts undertaken on this particular weekend. Saturday, January 11th, 2014 Around 11:00 a.m. this morning, we began to free