Yesterday marked the 3rd anniversary of the launch of the Toronto Railway Heritage Group (ToRyHeritage) on the Yahoo Groups system by Derek Boles, our TRHA historian (pictured at left). In this list, Derek posts each day significant Canadian railway events that occurred on that day in the past. This often
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . We had an early start on last weekend’s work effort thanks to Jason P., Wilson and Bob who came out on Friday. Since it was quiet elsewhere in the roundhouse, we took the opportunity to restore one last large heritage electrical
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Today, we offer a few photos of even more progress around the roundhouse. In the picture at the upper left, we see an airline being installed to connect our compressor to the roundhouse itself. In the next photo, we see frames
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . In the left most picture, we find workers building forming for the repair of the concrete on the Coaling Tower. In the next picture we look upwards within the Roundhouse to see the finish which has been applied to
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In past news items, we have spoken to the “wheel drop pits” in our roundhouse. Major repair work on steam locomotives were normally carried out in the original assembly shops where massive overhead cranes were available to disassemble locomotives. Lesser maintenance
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As you will be aware from earlier news postings, Jon has spent many days painting the loco frames, wheels, cylinders and everything else which is not being powder coated. It all looks very good and reassembly of the painted components has
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . We had a great turn out on Saturday with lots of work being done on the locomotive reassembly after painting. Much progress was also made on switch building. Thanks to Dan, Dave, Arno, Jim G., Bob, Jason P., Lance, Jon
Click on the picture for a closer look! Recently, we published a series of excerpts here from an article by Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, on Pierre Berton’s National Dream books about the development of the CPR. Featured in the TV series associated with the book was CPR steam engine #136.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Traditionally, builders plates have been attached to locomotives which serve to provide key information about the locomotive, its builder and when it was built. In the pictures above we find first the original builder’s plate for our 120 foot turntable which
. . . Click on Each Picture for a Closer Look! . . Drumheads, as seen in the pictures above were usually found on the back of crack passenger trains in the past and featured colorful (often illuminated) logos. Railways were proud of their intercity passenger trains and worked hard