……… Click on each picture for a closer look! . Exceptionally cold weather on the last day of February didn’t stop our work crews from making some serious progress yesterday. The sun blazing through the roundhouse windows warmed us up sufficiently to allow this to happen. . As the sun

… Click on each picture for a closer look! . As one can see in the picture at the upper left, the roundhouse has a vast expanse of roof. Roughly half of the roof is being re-waterproofed as weather allows. . The three museum stalls will rely on a pair

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . Recently, the watchman’s shanty was returned to Roundhouse Park after being fully restored by Tom Murison. The three pictures above are some close up views of the exterior and interior of the completed shanty. In the pictures below, we see

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . The TRHC’s miniature steam locomotive was moved into the newly cleaned and painted roundhouse blacksmith’s shop today. In the picture at left, we find Dave using the newly installed chain hoist to lift the locomotive from a rolling stand onto

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . The museum’s collection of railway equipment includes Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Caboose #70. Currently it is being stored outside while renovations to the roundhouse are underway. The protective coverings have been temporarily removed allowing us to bring you these pictures

On June 17th 1990, from his vantage point high atop the Gardiner expressway, which was closed for the occasion, photographer Norm Betts recorded the demolition of the two smoke stacks of the Toronto Central Heating plant. This coal-fired plant produced steam to heat much of the downtown core including Union

……… Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at upper left we find (from left to right) Richard, Michael G., Jason P., James and Dave them grouped around our miniature steam locomotive which is of course now relocated to the machine shop in the roundhouse.

We wrap up this series with a list of the passenger train arrivals and departures from Union Station in June of 1868. . ARRIVALS . . DEPARTURES Railway Companies GWR = Great Western Railway (trains terminated at the GWR’s Yonge St. Station) GTR = Grand Trunk Railway NRC = Northern

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . Today, our steam engine was successfully moved today from our assembly shop space in Markham, Ontario, Canada to our machine shop space at the roundhouse. In the picture at left above, we see the engine and the cab in Dave