The Copetown Model Railway Show on February 8th, 2015 was a great success despite inclement weather which kept visitor traffic down somewhat. But hundreds of visitors still turned out. The organizers shrewdly placed us in a row of exhibits featuring the TH&B Historical Society, the Toronto Railway Museum, the Freeman
The annual Barrie-Allandale Model Train Show is one of the largest model train shows in Southern Ontario. It is hosted by the Barrie-Allandale Railway Modelers Association. The 45th annual show will be held in Barrie in the Bradford Greenhouses’s Garden Gallery on February 14th (10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) and Sunday, February 15th
Michael Guy is currently away on his annual expedition to Florida where he makes weekend visits to local miniature railways with his small electric locomotive. This past weekend he visited the Big Boots and Western Railway which features over 3 miles of track configured as shown in the track plan
Today we feature a field trip report from Dan Cheer, one of our volunteers who wisely went south for the winter, all the way home to New Zealand. He reports as follows: “Having missed out on the annual Roundhouse party, we decided to get our dose of train talk by
The Canadian Association of Railway Modellers (CARM) was formed in October of 2003 to: to inspire. to foster fellowship among railway modellers throughout Canada. to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and skills between railway modellers. to promote the hobby of railway modelling in Canada. to be inclusive of all
Marilyn Cornwell is a long time friend of mine, who on retirement decide to pursue photography as a hobby to complement her passion for flower gardening. She primarily photographs gardens and the patterns of surfaces in the world around us. Luckily for us, her husband is an avid railway enthusiast
The Saturday of this weekend was an especially busy one in Roundhouse Park as Steam Whistle Brewing hosted its annual Winter Craft Beer Festival with large crowds attending the sold out event. Inside the Roundhouse, work continued on the restoration of the newly acquired CN Caboose. The day concluded with
The West Toronto schedule boards outside the rear entrance to the museum, December 2014. (Continued from Part 1) The information on the two boards dates from the summer of 1971. Years earlier, the boards would have been filled with numerous trains, but by this time there were only four trains
The West Toronto schedule boards outside the rear entrance to the museum, December 2014. Recently the Toronto Railway Museum acquired several significant artifacts to add to our growing collection. These include the Canadian Pacific Railway West Toronto schedule boards that hung on the side of the station until 1971. Wooden
With the annual TRHA Reception and Dinner behind us, a crew of volunteers cleaned up the “TRHA dining hall” and restored it to a restoration workshop. Then another team moved the Cape Race out of the roundhouse and brought the recently acquired CN wooden caboose inside for further restoration. The