Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture series shown here, we find a typical small railway crane. This one belongs to the Toronto Terminal Railways (TTR) who are responsible for the maintenance of the rail corridor in downtown Toronto. It is now surplus to their
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Click on each image for a closer look! . In this final chapter of our report on the Christmas Train Show, we will highlight a number of exhibits which may be of interest to our readers as follows: #1: At this booth, Jon Hull, Tom Landers and Russ Milland of
Click on each image for a closer look! . Our Sweet Creek locomotive was appropriately displayed in the display area hosted by the Golden Horseshoe Live Steamers (GHLS), one of the three miniature railway clubs in the Toronto area. Our locomotive was assembled and tested by a team of miniature
Click on each image for a closer look! . As mentioned in our last posting, our Sweet Creek locomotive was displayed at the Christmas Train Show just across the aisle from our TRHA booth. Michael Guy, Arno Martens and Mike Salisbury of the TRHA participated in numerous discussions with visitors
Click on each image for a closer look! . Many of us TRHA folk were busy this past weekend manning the TRHA booth and otherwise participating in the Christmas Train Show as described in an earlier posting. Saturday was quite a busy day with a good number of visitors while
Next TRHA Union Station Tour on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 . Click on each picture for a closer look! . The TRHA offers tours of Union Station on the last Saturday of each month at 11 a.m. Cost is $10 each payable on arrival for the tour. Reservations are not
Click on each image for a closer look! . In a news posting earlier this fall, we announced that on Saturday, October 17th, the Simcoe County Museum (just North of Barrie, Ontario) and the Historical Construction Equipment Association of Canada (HCEA) were presenting their last event of the year –
Click on each image for a closer look! . Earlier this week, the electricians working on the miniature railway depot building installed the mains transformer and the fume extractor fan (see image at upper left). In the spirit of reuse and recycle, we are using an older floor-model type transformer
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The roundhouse has been fitted for many years with powered fan-type “Robertson” ventilators. Most of these are no longer used and are blanked off. But the museum stalls 15 and 17 will retain working units of this type. The ventilator above
Click on each image for a closer look! . In the Toronto area, there is only one major Train Show annually and it is held at the end of November at the International Centre across from Toronto’s International Airport. . The TRHA will once again be present with our booth