We are pleased to announce that the TRHA has acquired the “F7 Park Diesel” to provide backup to our “mini-whit” miniature railway engine. The F7 has seen service in Roundhouse Park before as it was built and owned until now by Michael Guy.  In recent years, it has been used

From CTV’s Breakfast Television Video The fifth artistic performance is focused on the Roundhouse turntable and involves a few of our museum artefacts. Nuit blanche describes this event as follows: 5. The Shifting Space Around Us, 2014 “Megan and Murray McMillan’s work always requires teams of people to execute, a

In the Roundhouse Park area, there will five artistic performances.  Here are the first four: 1. Wild Air Vision Electro: Vehicle Art Installation, 2014 Location: Across the street (Bremner Boulevard) from the Coaling Tower “Creating live for the public during a 12-hour period, 2 artists will transmute the surface of

From the Toronto Nuit Blanche website: “Nuit Blanche was originally conceived in Paris, France in 2002, in an attempt to bring contemporary art to the masses in public spaces. Now universally translated as ‘Sleepless Night’, Nuit Blanche brings more than a million people to the streets of Paris every year.

In a recent TRHA News Posting, we featured “Russia in Miniature”, a miniature model world created in St. Petersburg. In the 2 minute video above, we discovered that a group is also building an ambitious miniature world much closer to home for most of us here in the Greater Toronto

In a recent TRHA News posting we alerted everyone to the CN Railway’s donation of an operational SW1200RSm diesel-electric switcher to  CN “green and yellow” livery and she looks terrific in these two photos.  In the photo above, we see  her posed beside Exporail’s delightful Barrington Station.  In the photo

In past TRHA News postings, we have featured two massive model railroad displays which are open to the public, one in Germany, Miniature Wonderland, and one in New Jersey (USA), Northlandz.  In the Youtube video above, we experience a visit to yet another major such public model railway in St.

As shown in the video above and in the photos below, what may look like a model subway system is in actual fact an expansion of our train storage through the installing a culvert beside the miniature train depot. Michael Guy reports on progress as follows: “For some time we

Click on the image for a closer look! After many years of heavy service and a successful summer season where our rider traffic doubled from the previous year, we are now taking advantage of cool fall weather to aggressively address ongoing maintenance of our track system.  In the photo above,

We continue with our history of the Crystal Beach train ride. When the Amusement Park finally closed around 1989, all of its assets were auctioned off or demolished. The train ride which was privately owned, moved to a private site in Niagara Falls where it ran on 1,200 feet of