YouTube has become a treasure trove of great video viewing for rail fans. The hard part is sorting through the incredible number of railway videos for the truly great ones. Here is a 36 minute long video produced likely in the 1940’s by the Great Northern Railway to train railway

Yesterday, November 14th 2013 is another significant day in the extended life of Don Station. For several years now, we have been searching for the right signal boards to complete our restoration of Don Station. Today the station received its crown jewels, identical train order signal boards. A couple of

  Reinhart Vinegar Car at Harbourfront Museum   On the TRHA website, we only briefly speak to the vinegar car in our collection as follows: “This rare vinegar tank car was constructed for Reinhart Vinegars in 1938. It has a steel frame atop which ride wooden tanks specially designed to

At last, an inspirational video dedicated to we railfans!  This video was produced by one of the major producers of railway simulation software. Only two minutes long and a joy to watch! Posting by Russ Milland

St. Thomas, Ontario was a major railway centre and had four major railways both passing through it as well as having local servicing facilities. Today, the city and Elgin County are very active in developing historical railway attractions in the community. They also host railway themed events several times a

CRHA Niagara is the Niagara division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association who own and operate Exporail, the national railway museum of Canada in Delson, Quebec. Our members often travel across the continent to capture railway history as it happens.  Dave Howard, one of our most active members recently shared

Last Saturday, the TRHA hosted a Town Hall meeting for our volunteers and staff in order to continue our ongoing and discussion of current activities, issues and future plans.  Our last such meeting was held last July.  The TRHA Executive team presented: Our most recent financial results Proposed new logos

This weekend was a bit cold, wet and blustery but there was a steady stream of visitors to the museum and riders on our train.  One couple even came to Roundhouse Park for photographs despite the weather. A crew of volunteers also executed a number of equipment moves to prepare

Exporail is our national railway museum located just south of Montreal, Quebec. It is owned and operated by the Canadian Railway Historical Association (CRHA). Exporail took delivery on Saturday, October 19, 2013, of CPR GP-9 locomotive #1608 to replace one of the two operating switching locomotives at Exporail. The locomotive

With October 31st and Halloween now upon us, last weekend we once again celebrated the occasion at Roundhouse Park with Halloween displays and costumed volunteers.  Eight of our staff and volunteers were in costume – Dave, Elnora, Jay, Rodney, Mark, Bernadette, Lance and Bob. Don Station was decorated and we