With the operating season for the miniature railway coming to an end as winter approaches, our Sweet Creek steam locomotive is now scheduled for a major inspection which occurs every five years. In the photos below, we find the locomotive being disassembled by a group of volunteers. Posting by Russ
The painting of Cape Race has now been completed. On Monday, November 10th, 2014, our Whitcomb diesel switcher (see video above) pulled it out onto the turntable. The roof has yet to be washed down to rid it of sanding dust but it still looks magnificent. We congratulate all of
In a recent TRHA News posting, we updated you on our project to repaint Cape Race. In this posting we provide additional photos of the progress on the painting. Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Stephen Gardiner Click on each image for a closer look! http://www.trha.ca
For the last six or seven weeks, I’ve been restoring the rusty hardware attached to the lower third of Cape Race. Nine areas of concern were attacked: three ice boxes, two battery boxes, two vestibule traps and two stairs. With the use of three welders, two grinders, ten pounds of
The primary reason that the Museum is closed until November 12th is to allow for the repainting of the exterior of Cape Race. While much of our restoration work is done at a more placid pace by our enthusiastic community of volunteers, we do contract some work when we either
On September 12th, 2014, Ron Pullano, a CRHA Niagara Division member, spotted the locomotive shown above switching at the Oxy Vinyls plant on Thorold Town Line road in the Niagara Region. As a leased locomotive it carried the LTEX reporting marks, where the X designates it as a leased locomotive.
In previous TRHA News posting, we featured a series of images by David Howard of the CRHA’s Niagara Division of CNR #6060 in excursion service. We also featured the inaugural run of #6218 in excursion service in this TRHA News Posting. The CNR in conjunction with local railway societies hosted
Recently I purchased a photo of 6213 that I had never seen before. According to the vendor, the photo was taken in 1944 in Toronto although there isn’t enough detail to indicate where in Toronto. This would make it the earliest photo I’ve seen of the locomotive, taken just two
The Agawa Canyon is a shallow canyon located deep in the sparsely populated Algoma District in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created 1.2 billion years ago by faulting along the Canadian Shield and then enlarged by the erosive action of the Agawa River. The Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park
Recently, a CN passenger car was rebuilt to serve as a library in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The goal was to improve low literacy rates in the north end of the “Keith” neighbourhood “Every child deserves an even chance to be educated,” said local builder Jeff Paikin, son of the library’s