The Orangeville Brampton Railway (OBRY) is a 55-km short-line railway operation between Orangeville and Streetsville Junction in Mississauga.  It  involves a partnership between the Town of Orangeville, the local rail customers, CP Rail, and the railway operator – Cando Contracting Ltd. The OBRY mandate is to provide rail service to

The Freeman Station, now owned by the City of Burlington, has been recognized as a building with  historical and architectural significance by the Ontario Ministry of Culture and by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. This is Burlington’s only surviving Grand Trunk Railway station, built in 1906. It

Do you know that we have a presence on both Facebook and Twitter? Our TRHA News blog and the TRHA Yahoo group is not our only means of communicating with our volunteers and our friends in the world at large. As note in an earlier post, we post links to

Click on the image for a closer look! Susan Forint recently posted to our Facebook page a link to a blog item that she had produced about this fascinating photo from 1945. Here is some of what she shared in that blog item: “While The Canadian is lead by a

Recently,  the plaque shown below was installed in the TH&B Caboose.  It recognizes the large crew of volunteers who contributed their time and energy to the restoration project.  Our thanks go out to all of them for their fine effort. Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Lance Gleich and Stephen

While I was away on vacation back in early August, our volunteers were busy applying lettering to the TH&B #70 caboose. This was the last major step in the restoration of the caboose. The photos below of them carefully doing this work are now part of our history. Posting by

Periodically, we need to redeploy our rolling stock and other equipment in Roundhouse Park.  On Thursday, September 26th we assembled a crew of volunteers to safely make such a series of moves. Michael Guy reports on what happened that day: “Our equipment shuffle got off to a good start at

Over the past few centuries, railway tracks have evolved from being made of wood, then metal and wood and then steel rails on wooden or concrete ties which is what is typically uses today. As railways built larger and heavier engines and rolling stock, the weight of the rail per

The Canadian Railway Historical Association owns and operates Exporail, our national railway museum in Delson, Quebec across the St. Lawrence River just south of Montreal.  They also publish a monthly magazine, Canadian Rail, and you can access decades of these issues online by clicking here. They also have chapters across