Click on the image for a closer look! Greg Mcdonnell is very well known for the impressive series of railway books which feature his great railway photography accompanied by brief background stories. I have a number of them which I treasure. Click here to see his recently posted set of

In a recent TRHA New posting, we revisited the restoration project of the 1880’s vintage London, Ontario roundhouse which began a moth or two ago.  As is our practice, they are attempting to preserve as much of the structure as possible but they do note that they have had to

Much of the focus of our restoration team for the past few months has been on restoring the Cape Race windows and applying a weatherproof membrane to the roof.   The project is nearing completion.  The goal, of course, is to be able to move the Cape Race out of the

One of my favourite railway museums in the O. Winston Link Museum  in Roanoke, Virginia.  I visited there in 2010 and reported out on the experience in a two part TRHA News Posting which you can read by clicking here.   The museum is devoted to chronicling the life of O.

Our Sweet Creek Steam Locomotive is one of the bigger miniature locomotives that run on this gauge of track.  It is scaled down to 1/3 of a full size 2 foot gauge locomotive.  But others have built locomotives that are even larger, at least in some dimensions.  the Brighouse and

Stephen Gardiner recently visited the museum on a grey foggy day in January.  A few of his photos of this different winter perspective on the Park can be found below. Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Stephen Gardiner Click on each image for a closer look! http://www.trha.ca

Our Roundhouse Park miniature railway is almost the smallest size gauge used for giving rides to passengers. Our gauge is 7 1/2″. With few exceptions, commercial and tourist railways are usually at least 2 foot gauge or more. But here is one of the exceptions documented on the Internet as

In an earlier TRHA News posting, we took you to the “Miniature Wonderland” in Hamburg, Germany which could possibly be the largest model train system in the world. In Flemington, New Jersey in the U.S.A. there is another model railway system called “Northlandz” which also could lay claim to being

  As we reported in an earlier TRHA News Posting, an old roundhouse in London, Ontario has survived from the 1880’s to today.  Researchers believe, based on the earliest known insurance fire map of the area (show below) that it was built by the Michigan Central Railway. However, some still