Click on the picture for a closer look! The Grand Trunk had quickly evolved into the most important railway in Canada, connecting the east coast of the United States with Montreal, Toronto and eventually Chicago. The illustration at teh left is an 1857 handbill advertising the railway’s routes and services

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last Saturday, a team of eight volunteers (James R., Bob, Ron, Richard, James G., Paul, Jason, and Lance) quickly noticed something different in the machine shop–the door to the stalls had been bricked closed (see picture at upper left)! Taking

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . The “tender men” have now completed the cab and will send it off shortly to the shop where the steam engine is being assembled. Once it arrives there it will be test fitted on the chassis before being sent off

Click on the picture for a closer look! 2008 marked the sesquicentennial or 150th anniversary of the first Union Station in Toronto. The railway era began in Toronto in 1853, when the first Ontario, Simcoe & Huron Ry. train departed from the city for Machell’s Corners, thirty miles to the

… … Click on each picture for a closer look! . Now that the Burlington based team has completed their work on the steam engine’s tender, they have been working on assembling the cab which is now almost nearly complete. In the above pictures we find Pat in action fastening

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at the left of the 1873 Union Station, we see its prominent clock tower. The clock in that tower was removed in 1927 after the present Union Station opened. What is truly amazing is the fact that

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . As we see in the photo at the upper left, work continued on building four new doors for two stalls of the roundhouse. The old doors had been modified in the past with upper sections of corrugated fibreglass and didn’t

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . This past weekend, Dave, Arno and Michael G. split their time between the roundhouse work (partly reported in the prior news item) and the shop where we are assembling the steam locomotive. . In the left hand photo above, we

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . One of the major artefacts remaining in the machine shop area of the roundhouse is a large engine lathe as show in the pictures above located near the west windows of the shop. The “Wisegeek” website begins to answer the

….. Click on each picture for a closer view! . The view shown in the picture at the left above through the door from the machine shop to stall 25 will disappear very shortly when the opening is bricked up. In the middle picture, we see the steel reinforcing mesh