Today, we reached another milestone. our volunteers completed the installation of our working crossing gates. As you can see from the video, they are effective at clearing visitors from the crossing!.Posting by Russ Milland; Video by Wilson Lau.Click on the video below!. http://www.trha.ca
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In 1996, when Ralph and Eugenia Bangay discovered that the Brighton Grand Trunk station (built in 1857) was up for sale, they decided to buy it and preserve the structure for future generations. The resulting 3 acre site was opened as
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Here are some images from the last two weekends’ activities. In the images above taken on Labour Day we find the Snow Birds performing over the waterfront at the Canadian Exhibition Grounds and providing some interesting backdrops for Roundhouse Park. .
Click on each image for a closer look! . This Saturday, September 11, at 1:30 PM, Heritage Toronto is sponsoring the Marlborough/Summerhill walking tour. TRHA members Derek Boles and Ed Freeman will be leading the walk. Although the walk is not exclusively geared towards railways there is much of rail
The railway enthusiast has lots of choices this coming weekend. Some of these are as follows:.Visit the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre.We continue to be open this weekend from 12:00 to 4:00 on Saturday and Sunday..Participate in the Marlborough/Summerhill Walking Tour.Derek Boles and Ed Freeman will be leading a Heritage Toronto
Click on the images for a closer look! . Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major railway oriented events that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: . “September 8,
Click on each image for a closer look! Most of Derek Bole’s report has been serialized in the previous 6 postings. In his full report, Derek has included many more images of the Buffalo Central Station (especially the interior) and other points of interest in the Buffalo area. Some of
Click on each image for a closer look! As we came to the end of our trip, we visited Fellheimer & Wagner’s 1933 Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo station, now the Hamilton GO Centre. F&W used the Art Deco architectural style which came into vogue in the late 1920s. Unfortunately few
Click on each image for a closer look! The highlight of the trip was a tour of the Buffalo Central Terminal, opened by the New York Central Railroad in 1929 and abandoned by Amtrak in 1979. BCT was familiar to many Torontonians, who changed trains there to reach various destinations
Click on each image for a closer look! A day-long drive north from Altoona brought us to Buffalo, New York, once the second busiest railroad center in the United States after Chicago. In 1927 there were 13 different railroads serving Buffalo, including the CPR, CNR, Grand Trunk and TH&B. All