Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . . . On Tuesday, October 23rd, workers work to prepare the turntable pit for the imminent installation of the restored turntable bridge in the days to come. As of the end of the day. the pitrails had been
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . . A TRHA team is working hard to bring the CLC Whitcomb diesel back into operating condition as it will be needed to move engines and rolling stock out of the roundhouse in order to allow the interior of the roundhouse
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Yesterday, the new B.C. fir ties and the white oak decking timbers to be used to complete the restoration of the turntable arrived at the roundhouse. Next week, we expect the restored turntable to make the journey back to the roundhouse
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . On October 15th, Western Mechanical sent a truck with two forklifts to assist in getting the turntable pit ring rails out of stalls 31 and 32. After an hour of their working on this task with their small forklift,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . The turntable restoration process nears completion in Barrie. Western Mechanical has completed work on the major components and is now working on final assembly of the air motors, drive bogies and control platforms. The workmanship is first class throughout and
. . . . . . . Click on the pictures for a closer view! . Our crews of volunteers have been busy restoring the surfaces of the locomotive and applying the grey primer paint to it. Once this has been completed, we will move on to painting and lettering
The Locomotives and the Freight Car sections in the Collections area of the TRHA website have been updated. Biographies and pictures of the CLC Whitcomb and the CPR Baldwin have been added to the Locomotives area. Click here to read them. The biographies of the TH&B Caboose and the Fowler
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The Toronto Railway Historical Association is pleased to announce the acquisition of a significant new artifact for the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre Archives. It is a hand coloured architectural rendering of Toronto’s 1890s Union Station expansion and was acquired through the
September 12, 2007 marked the fifth anniversary of the ToRyHeritage Yahoo group and, no, it’s not about the current leader of the provincial Conservative party..The Toronto Railway Heritage group was created in 2002 to provide a forum for the discussion of the history of Canadian railways, with a focus on
. . . . . Click on the pictures for a closer look! . . This past week a TRHA team got started on repairing and repainting the CLC-Whitcomb locomotive. Over Friday and Saturday we fixed all the broken or missing windows, cleaned the mouse nests out of the cab