Our volunteers continue to be very busy on weekends both operating the museum but also in tackling the many tasks involved with our restoration efforts. Here are summary reports on the efforts undertaken on this particular weekend. Saturday, January 11th, 2014 Around 11:00 a.m. this morning, we began to free
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Being a passionate enthusiast for small scale narrow gauge railways, my favourite such railways in England are the Ffestiniog and the Welsh Highland Railways in Wales. Michael Guy brings to our attention to two YouTube 4 minute videos below which provide eye-catching experiences showing fast-tracked versions of normally slow 15mph trips
The Track Plan Andy Panko, a long time member of the CRHA Niagara Division, had ambitions to build a very large HO scale model railroad where he could faithfully duplicate mainline operations in the Niagara region in years past. After successfully negotiating with his good wife, he has proceeded to
Canadian snowbirds love to spend as much of the winter as they can in Florida. The state of Florida has a fascinating railway history but there are very few railway museums which capture that history. A brief history of Florida railways can be found by clicking here and in more
Goderich, Ontario on the shore of Lake Huron has a long railway history. Wikipedia tells us: “The Goderich-Exeter Railway (GEXR) presently operates freight service to Goderich. The line was originally built by the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway in 1859. The railroad was soon taken over by the Grand Trunk
The two images shown here were taken in April of 1976 by Dave Howard, an avid railway photographer who is a fellow member of the Niagara Division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association (CRHA). The image above was taken looking northward across John St. at a small yard on
As we wrap up this series of News postings about our search for the Newfie Bullet, a few closing comments are in order. The Newfoundland railway system was born in 1881 and died in 1988, aged 107! It was built as a private venture by the Reid Newfoundland Company and
Continuing our visit to the Coastal Railway Museum in St. John’s, we bring you some photos of the train sets on display outside the museum. They consist of yet another diesel, a pair of passenger cars in the classic green and gold CN colours and a speeder with a trailer.
Our return to St. John’s, the capital of Newfoundland, brought us to the end of our three week trip to the province. St. John’s is the home of the Railway Coastal Museum which is housed in a magnificent stone railway station appropriate to the capital of the province. It is
As our trip was coming to an end, we came across two further remnants of the Newfoundland Railway. Newfoundland’s history includes a long period where wealthy merchants in the capital, St. John’s, pretty much controlled the lives of the fishermen in the outports by providing them credit to buy supplies