Click on each image for a closer look! . I recently came across some slides I took of the roundhouse area on July 22, 1993. The roundhouse had been closed for five years at that point. Numerous proposals for turning the site into a railway museum had been put forward,
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . While vacationing in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts two weeks ago, I took the opportunity to visit the Western Gateway Heritage Park museum in North Adams. This museum is in a restored railway station right beside a working railway line that
Click on each image for a closer look! . Last Friday, the following press release was issued marking another milestone in the project to renovate Union Station. . “Aecon awarded $196 million contract for Union Station Platform Renewal . TORONTO, Oct. 30 /CNW/ – Aecon Group Inc. (TSX: ARE) announced
Click on each image for a closer look! . NOW Magazine is published weekly as one of the major voices of the Toronto news and entertainment scene. It is distributed free across Toronto every Thursday. They also have a strong online presence here. On their website they prominently feature a
Click on each image for a closer look! . As work finishes on Cabin D and winter closes in, work by Tom Murison and his team on restoration of the exterior of Don Station has accelerated. At the above right, we see his team dismantling the roof around the turret.
Click on each image 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 events in Canadian history that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: “November 3,
Click on each image for a closer look! . Sunday turned out to be a good dry work day, cloudy with some sun later in the day. Work on the TH&B caboose continued, notably removal of the heavy steel ash box adjacent to the wood stove. The last of the
Click on each image for a closer look! . Before reporting out on weekend progress, we are pleased to report that the fencing around much of Roundhouse Park’s construction areas has now been removed. The pictures above show what these areas now look like. Only the areas around the “village”
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at the above left, we find our CLC Whitcomb Locomotive #1, awakening on the turntable at sunrise with the moon looking down as preparations begin for another milestone event at Roundhouse Park. . As mentioned in earlier TRHA
Click on each image for a closer look! . Thursday afternoon was another productive effort by a TRHA team who spent the afternoon building track. By the time we finished about six o’clock, the second switch at the platform crossover/wye exit location was in place and 2/3 connected. The south