With October 31st and Halloween now upon us, last weekend we once again celebrated the occasion at Roundhouse Park with Halloween displays and costumed volunteers.  Eight of our staff and volunteers were in costume – Dave, Elnora, Jay, Rodney, Mark, Bernadette, Lance and Bob. Don Station was decorated and we

If you don’t recognize the name – Aberfoyle Junction Railway – you are in for a real treat if you visit it as obviously you have not done so! This railway was built by a small very dedicated group of expert modellers first  in a building at the Aberfoyle flea

Over the recent Thanksgiving Holiday, I had the privilege to have breakfast on board a local tourist train that runs from Quebec City all the way to La Malbaie, Quebec – 140 kilometers in length. The train operates on the old CN Murrybery Subdivision. The culinary experience on board was

The Mum Show as most people refer to it is an annual flower show started in 1920. The Chrysanthemum Show is an amazing floral display created by some of Hamilton’s finest horticulture staff.  The display is a breathtaking feature of over 200 varieties of Chrysanthemums, and more than 75,000 blooms!

The Severn Valley Railway was opened as a Heritage Railway in 1970 and is one of the most successful heritage railways in the U.K. It is almost entirely volunteer developed and operated.  Wikipedia describes the railway as follows: “The Severn Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire,

TS2014 is a competitor to the Railway Simulation Software that we use in our simulators.  The vendor of TS2014 made this neat two minute video titled “We are railfans – TS2014”.  Since most of our readers are likely railfans, we thought you would enjoy it. Posting by Russ Milland http://www.trha.ca

Danny Vrekalic from DronesToronto.com recently dropped by Roundhouse Park and used one of his camera-carrying drones to take these photos of the park from some very different perspectives as we were moving equipment around. Posting by Russ Milland; Photo by Danny Vrekalic http://www.trha.ca

Saturday Saturday was a brilliant summer day in Toronto, not bad at all for mid-October. Being a long weekend the city seemed typically quiet with not much traffic and I was really surprised to turn onto Bremner Blvd in late afternoon to find this cute little park full of people with

The Facebook social media system is one of the great places on the Internet to share historic photos and information.  At the Facebook page called: “Chatham Kent County Ontario – Pictures of Our Past” we found these pictures plus an image of a newspaper article which described an altercation between an early automobile and a steam engine about

Click on the image for a closer look! As described in an earlier TRHA News posting, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) took delivery of the first prototype of its new Flexity Outlook streetcars on September 25th, 2012. The new vehicles are built by Bombardier Transportation in Thunder Bay and several