Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last Friday, PNR Rail Services continued to lay track albeit with a couple of hitches in the program. First the big loader blew a tire necessitating a visit by a large crane-equipped tire repair vehicle after which everything was fine until
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Click on each picture for a closer view! . . . The TRHA need to move some of our collection of engines and rolling stock to new tracks being installed by PNR Rail Services in Roundhouse Park using the turntable. This will allow restoration of the interior of the roundhouse
.Click on the button in the centre of the picture above to watch our CLC Whitcomb in action moving the Baldwin switcher to its new location as we begin the process mentioned in our last news post of moving the rolling stock collection to temporary locations to allow the restoration
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . Today, on a sunny and balmy -10C Toronto day, a TRHA crew, assisted by a PNR Rail Services track crew, moved the Baldwin 7069 to a new temporary home in front of Steam Whistle Brewing. The 1951-built CLC-Whitcomb
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . .On May 27, 1967, GO Transit began its first day of service on the lakeshore corridor serving Toronto and its environs. In the picture at the upper left, provided by John Vincent, we see GP40TC #607 pulling one of that
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . . . In the picture at the left, (from left to right) Knox, Arno and Michael try to figure out “what next” when the cover wouldn’t come out. In the middle photo above, Knox (left) and Arno (right)
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Yesterday, a TRHA crew took on a little industrial archaeological project in the roundhouse. The two remaining wheel drop pits will eventually be filled in so in anticipation of this we decided to document what we could while also salvaging those
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . On December 22nd, two technicians from Western Mechanical mixed cement grout and packed it in under the turntable pivot base to provide the permanent support. That’s Nick mixing and Rob working in the confined space below the turntable centre.
Click on the pictures for a closer look! . . . . Pictured above at the left and in the centre is the Santa Train operating on the Port Stanley Terminal Railway on December 16th 2007 at the height of an early winter snowstorm. At the right, we have a
Click on arrow to view the movie!.Yesterday, Dave W. and Michael G. ran the turntable through a full 360 degree rotation on one air motor – just as it is supposed to run. This clears the way to complete the pivot grout work on the coming weekend..If our dates are