Click on each image for a closer look! . This past Sunday, a small crew of volunteers turned out to work on the U33C Cab and to clean the grab irons which had been removed from the passenger cars. When the roofs of the passenger cars had been tarred, many
Click on each image for a closer look! . This Saturday, our volunteers were hard at work again on the F7 Cab and the TH&B Caboose restorations. The F7 cab crew worked on the laying of a linoleum tile in the cab, did some remedial work on the wall of
Click on each image for a closer look! . As reported in earlier posts here and here, we have spent the last month removing parts from sister LRC locomotive number #6919, which was damaged in a sideswipe accident several years ago. This locomotive was owned by RB Railway Group in
Click on each image for a closer look! . Work continues on the restoration of the passenger car roofs by Tom Murison and his crew. In the image at the upper left, we find the new (painted red) wooden roof beams installed on the Cape. In the other two images,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In 1987, the East Lancashire Railway (a preserved tourist railway) was opened along a stretch of former British Rail line in the north-western county of Lancashire. The line is now 12 miles long and operates between the towns of Heywood and
Click on each image for a closer look! . On January 5th, 2011, the Royal Canadian Mint announced its first series of gold coins. Here is their announcement of one of these coins ….. . “2011 $100 GOLD COIN – 175TH ANNIVERSARY OF CANADA’S FIRST RAILWAY The first of many
Click on each image for a closer look! . Further to our last posting, we complete our virtual field trip to the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio. At the above left, we get a closer look at their 17 stall roundhouse. It is also interesting to note that
Click on each image for a closer look! . While we have not as yet visited this operation, it is timely that we make a virtual visit to this rapidly evolving “operating steam railway museum” which is only a six hour drive from Roundhouse Park here in Toronto. . Some
Click on each image to get a closer look! . Bill Kaufman developed our U33C Diesel cab Simulator over the past 19 years and last year sold it to the museum. Over that period of time, he has developed a network of contacts in the railway parts industry and has
Click on each image for a closer look! . The “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” is a song by Gordon Lightfoot that describes the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Wikipedia article about the song begins as follows: “This song was commissioned by the CBC for a special broadcast on January