After visiting St. Anthony and the L’Anse Aux Meadows Viking settlement site on the Northern Peninsula. we traveled back across the province, stopping at Grand Falls-Windsor. It was a brief stop as my sole objective was to visit the only other preserved steam locomotive on the island. It was on

  Continuing with our exploration of the Railway Museum in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, we explore the preserved train set that perhaps best lays claim to being the Newfie Bullet. It is led by one of only two preserved steam engines in Newfoundland (the other is very old but very small

Our next stop on our adventure was in Corner Brook on the west coast of Newfoundland. Corner Brook is the home of one of the very few railway museums in Newfoundland.  Operated by the Railway Society of Newfoundland, the building is a former freight shed rather than a station and

As we approach the end of another great year at the Toronto Railway Museum thanks to the efforts of our staff and our many volunteers who have made it such a success, we would like to wish each and every one of our staff, volunteers and supporters a Merry Christmas,

Given all of the many things in Roundhouse Park which can catch a visitor’s eye, it is important that we have signage which directs the attention of visitors .. especially to our museum exhibit.  To this end, Leon’s at the Roundhouse has generously funded the development of multiple  small signs

After spending several days exploring the Twillingate area and especially Moretons Harbour where my wife’s father was from, we finally set off for the west coast of Newfoundland.  As we passed through Lewisporte, my wife suddenly exclaimed – “Look Russ, a train!”.  What a navigator she turned out to be!

  Our first adventure in search of Newfoundland railway history found us in Carbonnear, an outport on the north central coast of Newfoundland.   The railway did not reach this outport until 1898. I rushed into the railway station without reading the sign out front, bought my way in and

This past summer, my wife and I spent three weeks in Newfoundland as her father was born in a small outport there and she had never been able to visit until this summer. Naturally, I dug in and did as much research as I could about the famed Newfoundland Railway

Following up on our recent TRHA News item announcing the CP Chrsitmas Train special special concert in Gage Park in Hamilton on November 30th, we bring you three videos in case you missed the train and the concert. In the video above, a pair of local railfans captured the train

This 15 minute YouTube video is mostly a slide show collection of some of the strange and unique railway vehicles produced over time.  It makes for fascinating viewing as well as being a tribute to the engineering innovation of decades and centuries past. My favourite “strange” locomotive of those featured