Click on each picture for a closer look! . This weekend, progress was amde on several fronts with the team of Dave W., Jason P., James R. and Michael G. forming the work team. Dave and James did a great job finishing off the new work bench. It now sports
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In this video by Michael Guy, a pit jack was hooked up last Monday to check its condition and measure the height to confirm it can be used in the museum to service locomotive 6213 in the future. Clcik on the arrow to watch it in action.by Michael Guy, TRHA
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The high work platform looks nice in new yellow paint in this photo taken by Dave Wetherald. The platform will assist us in maintaining our CLC-W locomotive. The second photo shows a wheel set from locomotive #136 atop a pit jack
Click on each picture for a closer look! , , . . Last week, work proceeded on the removal of unneeded work platforms in the roundhouse. In the picture at left, we see the new museum locomotive work platform with the CLC Whitcomb awaiting servicing. The centre picture shows stalls
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . The date is January 23rd 1995. Skydome is up and running. The Metro Toronto Convention Centre is yet to be built. Bremner Boulevard does not yet fully exist and it is moving day for the John St Roundhouse coaling
Click on each photo for a closer look! . . . Today a TRHA rigging crew salvaged a compressed-air powered cable hoist from high above stall 21 for future use in the museum. Previously used by the CPR for diesel locomotive maintenance, the hoist was mounted on an “L” shaped
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . . . . Today, Dave W and I spent close to six hours at the roundhouse removing the remaining pit covers, steel work platforms and the bridge rails for stall 28 from the large wheel drop pit. The
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . Today a TRHA crew braved -26C wind chill to start maintenance on the CLC-W locomotive’s rear engine. Inside the roundhouse, with the sun shining through the south windows, the temperature was pleasant and high enough that we could work
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . Today, a TRHA crew, assisted by a PNR track crew, moved four vehicles from the roundhouse via the turntable on to temporary storage tracks in Roundhouse Park. A length of “snap track” was moved from stall to stall to
On a recent trip to Poland to take advantage of the opportunity to drive some of the few remaining steam engines still in daily service, Michael Guy of the TRHA acquired a diesel air horn which he recently installed on our CLC Whitcomb which had been missing its horn. Click