The late Howard Moore was a long time member of the Golden Horseshoe Live Steamers (GHLS). His sons, Brian and Steve Moore, also members of the GHLS have kindly donated a drill press and a oaken desk and chair which were owned by Howard. The chair and desk would have
Click on the video to watch it! For over 70 years, the Toronto Model Railroad Club have been developing their magnificent O-Gauge railway layout in the basement of a building in the area now known as Liberty Village in Toronto, Ontario. They are the closest model railway club to our
Click on the image for a closer look! In his daily Toronto Railway History blog, Derek Boles, our TRHA historian, offers the follow on February 1st, 2013: “Grand Central Terminal (GCT) in New York City was completed when the keys were turned over to the New York Central Railroad; the
Our volunteers were busy again this past weekend working on various restoration projects. Lance Gleich and Michael Guy took a break from these tasks to pursue the opportunity to snap some photos of Roundhouse Park in the winter. Below we feature their photos. Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Lance
One of the great locomotives in the collection at Canada’s national railway museum, Exporail in St. Contant, Quebec is the Dominion of Canada, one of the famed Gresley-designed A4 Pacifics. Recently it was sent on loan to England for a cosmetic restoration and for the 75th anniversary of one of
On January 12th, 2013 over 50 people turned out for our TRHA Annual Christmas Party. Michael Guy and a crew of volunteers have been working hard for several months to clean up the three stalls and rearrange rolling stock and other artefacts to open up enough space to allow us
Click on the image for a closer look! This past Saturday, 17 volunteers turned out and did a fantastic job in continuing the clean up of the three stalls. The facilities are now in great shape. In the attached photo, we find the crew relaxing after a hard day’s work.
Further Research Further research revealed that in 1903, the Grand Trunk had opened a downtown Detroit ticket office a few blocks northwest of the Brush Street depot. The office was located in what was originally the Traub Brothers Jewellery Building, a four-story wood-frame brick building at 612 Woodward Avenue, built
Acquiring the Print The print belonged to Mr. & Mrs. Henke, a retired couple who reside in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the sale to the TRHA was brokered by their son, Jim. Given their brief description of the print having been obtained in Detroit, my initial interpretation of its provenance
In a remarkable coincidence, another Titanic passenger was Paul Chevré (IMAGE #9), the French sculptor who created a bust of Laurier that would grace the lobby of the Chateau Laurier. Unlike Hays, Chevré was able to get into a lifeboat and survived the disaster. Probably the sculptor’s most famous work