Click on each picture for a closer look! . Early in the fall of 2008, the TRHA was made aware of a supply of small size rail suitable for use in the building of our miniature railway in Roundhouse Park. So we made the trek to Brantford to visit the
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . The historic Don Station was moved early on the morning of December 10, 2008 from Todmorden Mills to its permanent home at the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre at Roundhouse Park. . The structure was divided into six sections to facilitate the
“Love affair with troubled Turbo Train turns into a successful niche business” . These are the headlines as longtime TRHA board member, Jason Shron, was in the news recently, on the front page of the Toronto Star’s Business section. Jason is the proprietor of Rapido Trains, which since its founding
Click on each picture to get a closer look! . . We had a great day Saturday with four teams working at once! . As seen in the picture at left, Richard and Lance seemed to be having fun, properly harnessed and hatted, high atop the scissor lift continuing with
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Work continues on the area between the turntable and the roundhouse. In the picture at left, we find Mike building the re-bar skeleton for the concrete foundation to support the new pit rim safety fence. In the middle picture, we see
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As we can see in these pictures, workers have now raised Don Station onto wooden cribs in preparation for its imminent move to Roundhouse Park. They have also cut it into two pieces for the move as is evident in the
Click on each picture for a closer look . On Saturday, we formed two work crews to tackle jobs both inside and outside the roundhouse. The indoor crew donned harnesses and went up in a scissor lift to salvage a number of original light fixtures with shades and glass globes.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the past week, a number of tasks were completed by those hired to renovate the roundhouse. Let look at some of them in the pictures above (from left to right). . At the left, we see the turntable pit rim
. . . . Click on each picture for a closer look! . Cabin D once stood beside the mainline just west of Bathurst Street and controlled the approaches to the Toronto Rail Lands. . Yesterday afternoon Cabin D was moved from its long time parking spot behind the roundhouse
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Carlos and his team of expert bricklayers have been making repairs to the roundhouse brickwork using original “heritage” brick stored in the roundhouse for many years. In rhe photo at right Stall 21 gets a sweep after the service pit concrete