Click on each picture for a closer look! . Despite forecasts of a rainy day, our work party had sun all morning and it didn’t rain until after they were finished. . As we see in the pictures above, the major project was the installation of the crossing signal mast
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Click on the image for a closer look! . Don Loucks, heritage architect with IBI Group, has been awarded the 2009 Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) award for adaptive reuse of a heritage building for his work on the John Street Roundhouse. The award was presented to Loucks at
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As mentioned in earlier TRHA News postings, 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. In today’s
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the images at left, our restoration contractor, Tom Murison, has begun replacement of the doors and windows in the coaling tower. These are new-built replicas of the original steel-framed pane windows. . Posting and pictures by Michael Guy http://www.trha.ca
Click on the image for a closer look! . Further to the first part of this posting where we shared John Mellow’s pictures of #1057 in the 1970’s with you as well as Derek Boles’ posting of the anniversary of her first steaming up again at the South Simcoe Railway,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at the upper left, we see that progress continues on the restoration of Cabin D and it begins to return to its former glory. . The next two pictures above capture a meeting held to discuss the restoration
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As mentioned in earlier TRHA News postings, 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. In today’s
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . We hope to be able to re-occupy our three museum stalls soon as the renovations get much closer to completion. Contractors have completed installation of a new wooden roof purlin above stall 15 as we see in the picture at
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The Huntsville and Lakes of Bays Railway is a wonderful small railway which operates in Huntsville, Ontario. Among its rolling stock are the steam locomotives and open passenger cars used by the original railways to move passengers from one set of
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Modern diesel-electric engines are essentially powered by very large diesel motors driving a massive generator. This power plant provides electrical power on demand as needed by the locomotive to pull a train. The electric motors which drive the engine are an