Click on each image for a closer look! . This past weekend saw steady visitor traffic despite rain showers on both Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday we operated the miniature railway until 6:00 p.m. to accommodate late afternoon visitors. On Saturday morning a TRHA volunteer work crew addressed a number
Click on each picture for a closer link! . On August 5th, we published a quiz question with a number of photos of a pair of mystery stations. Two of these colour photos are repeated here. Stephen Gardiner was quick to respond with the right answer as follows. “The sign
Click on each image for a closer look! . Canadian Railway Observations was founded in 1989 and now has 7,000 readers world wide and many more on Facebook. It focuses on capturing railway events as they happen in Canada but also includes historical information. Their monthly publication is available at
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The Canadian Railway Historical Association headquartered in Montreal at Exporail, is a national organization with local chapters throughout Canada. The CRHA Niagara division has been an active chapter of the CRHA for many decades. Their most popular activity is railfanning, a
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. Two of today’s items are as follows: “August 17, 1927:
The Guiness World Book of records has an entry for the world’s longest train. On June 12th, 2001 a train travelled from an Australian mine for 275 kilometres (172 miles) from Newman to Port Hedland, Australia carrying iron ore. It had eight GE AC6000 diesel electric engines distributed along a
Click on each image for a closer look! . Last Saturday, before we opened at our normal hour of high noon, we trained several more volunteers in the operation of our full size simulator in our General Electric U33C Diesel cab. The volunteers then took shifts in interacting with visitors
Click on each image for a closer look! . This weekend continued to attract streams of visitors to Roundhouse Park. . In addition to the miniature train rides, we hosted tours of #6213 and also taught visitors how to operate our full size diesel simulator (the subject of our next
Click on each image for a closer look! . The two historic images of Cabin D shown here were brought to our attention by readers of this blog. The first image at the left from the City of Toronto Archives shows the top half of Cabin D being lifted after
CONGRATULATIONS! We did it. We have saved #6917. . Thank you very much to everyone out there for your generous help to make this dream a reality. We could not have done it without each and every one of our 90 donors. The total donations we received totalled approximately $42,000.