TRHA Lecture at the Roundhouse The Toronto Railway Historical Association has been presenting a series of three illustrated lectures by Toronto Railway Museum historian Derek Boles. Each of these fast-moving presentations is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, original animations, maps, diagrams, railway documents, advertising and other ephemera collected over the
We conclude this three part series of postings with some photos of the fine dinner catered by Whose Catering. Whose Catering has toured the world six times with the Stones! The menu was extensive: Hors D’Oeuvres Spring Rolls With Sweet Chili Dip Spanokopikta Mushroom Leek Tarts Beef Wellingtons Thunder Beach
At 6:00 p.m. staff, volunteers and invited guests began to arrive for an hour long reception. At 7:00 p.m. Phil Spencer spoke briefly about the successful year we experienced in 2013 at the Toronto Railway Museum. The number of visitors was up dramatically over the prior year attesting to the
On Saturday, January 17th the Toronto Railway Historical Association held its annual reception and dinner to celebrate our progress in the past year in developing the Toronto Railway Museum and especially the contributions of our staff and volunteers in making that happen. Again this year, a team of staff and
Our newly acquired caboose was featured in a recent article in the Vaughan Citizen. The article goes into some depth on the history of the caboose at its most recent Woodbridge location with interviews with the former owners. Click here to read the article. Click here to return to Part
In the 1 minute video above, we again see a drone being used to capture Pere Marquette #1225 as if charges north toward Ashley, Michigan. Wikipedia reports that: “Pere Marquette #1225 is a 2-8-4 (Berkshire) steam locomotive built for Pere Marquette Railway by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. #1225
Last September, we alerted our readers to the major local project to develop a massive model of major Canadian landmarks and featuring an extensive model railway as part of it. The project is called Our Home and Miniature Land. For the past year, they have been developing parts of the
Above: RBC Model Train Exhibit – Last Christmas (2013) A Christmas tradition in many places is to build a temporary model railroad layout to thrill kids of all ages during the Christmas season. In 2012, The Royal Botanical Gardens (in Burlington, Ontario, Canada) commissioned just such a model railroad from a U.S.
One of our volunteers, Stephen Gardiner, has been building models in HO scale of many our the Museum’s artefacts. Last year, he displayed a model of the CPR’s Cape Race. Recently he completed a model of the second of our passenger cars, the CPR Jackman as shown below. Click here
The Fort Wayne (Indiana) Railway Society sent out a very different Christmas card this year featuring the poignant sound of the whistles of the Nickel Plate Road #756 steam engine which has been featured in many excursions in the past few years. Click on the video above, make it full