One of our volunteers, Stephen Gardiner, paid a visit to the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre (CBHC) in Sault St. Marie, Ontario. Their mandate is: “To preserve and tell the story of Canada’s bushplane and forest fire protection heritage and how it has shaped life in northern and remote parts of
For the last few weeks, Bob Merriam and a team of volunteers have been busy preparing #6917 for painting. In case you haven’t yet heard, #6917 is an LRC locomotive acquired and owned by the Toronto Railway Historical Association. The LRC is a uniquely Canadian locomotive and ours is only
The Toronto Railway Historical Association presents a series of three illustrated lectures by Toronto Railway Museum historian Derek Boles. Each of these fast-moving presentations is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, original animations, maps, diagrams, railway documents, advertising and other ephemera collected over the years by Mr. Boles and combined with
One of our TRHA volunteers, Lance Gleich was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time and captured images of the first revenue run of the new TTC streetcars. In the photos below, we find car #4400 surfacing at Sussex Avenue yesterday on its first run. Lance
The Age of Steam Roundhouse is a massive new development underway in the state of Ohio within a day’s reach of us here in Toronto. We have reported on it several times before. It is not a museum and is not open to the public as it is heavily under
Each year on Labour Day Weekend, I make it a point to visit the Steam Era event held in Milton, Ontario (about an hour west of Toronto) on their fairgrounds. The major draw for me is the magnificent array of machinery that comes to the fair to be operated and
In earlier TRHA News postings (click here to read them) we told the story of Barry Silverthorne’s saving an F7 cab decades ago (see his pictures above) and subsequently donating it to us at the Toronto Railway Museum.. Our volunteers have been working over the past few years to restore
Here is an unusual sighting by a railfan in Northern Ontario. The CP railway hosted the Women’s Open Golf Tournament in London, Ontario which ends on August 24th, 2014. CP brought out their Heritage Train pulled by an A-B-A set of vintage EMD FP7 diesels to journey from Calgary to
Every year, the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) holds an annual convention somewhere in North America. The NMRA is the largest model railroading association in North America. This year, their convention was held in Cleveland, Ohio in mid-July. Since it was an easy day’s drive from Toronto, I and TRHA
The Niagara Division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association has a tradition of an all day event on the Friday nearest to the Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year. Our conviction is that this is the best train spotting day of the year as we have the