Click on each image for a closer look! . One of the new additions to Roundhouse Park is a mural on the side of the structure which houses the main stairwell to the underground parking garage of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and opposite the main entrance to Leon’s. This
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . One of the most important things one must do for either a business or a public facility such as the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre is to brand it well so that the public becomes aware of them. In the picture at
Click on each picture for a closer look! . A TRHA track crew has been hard at work on the miniature track loop past Cabin D. This section has a deck like that at Don Station to provide public access to Cabin D and it’s tool shed, the northern part
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at left, team members Lance and Wilson show off TRHA handiwork in the form of a newly-installed but old-and-recycled door hold-open post at the rear of stall 15. The post was previously used to hold a pair of
Click on each image for a closer look! . These pictures show the progress in building a pair of miniature railway tracks on a passenger loading platform in front of Don Station. The wooden platofom is being built flush with the top of the rails to ensure safety for visitors
Click on each picture for a closer look!.As mentioned earlier, the Sweet Creek miniature locomotive had made its first trial runs on the Golden Horseshoe Live Steamers track in Hamilton. Once, we had sufficient track installed at Roundhouse Park, it was time to further test our locomotive on our new
Click on each picture for a closer look! . With the large audience coming to the Roundhouse to participate in Leon’s grand opening, we had a great opportunity to display locomotives in our collection, uncovering some that had been wrapped in white plastic before being moved out of the roundhouse.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As mentioned in a prior news posting, a feature at this event was the triple heading of a train pulled by three steam engines. In the pictures above, we find CP 2-6-2 piloting a CP 2-8-0 ahead of a 2-8-2 with
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Recently, Riverdale Historical Society President Gerald Whyte advised me that there was an interesting item in an old magazine in the Baldwin Room at the Toronto Reference Library. It was a 1906 ad in a glossy magazine supplement to the Mail
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Six of us from the TRHA went up to Richmond Hill Live Steamers (RHLS) today to participate in the 1st GTA International Miniature Railway Meet for miniature locomotive owners. As it turned out a variety of issues prevented any of our