As mentioned in earlier updates on this website, we have a new initiative to animate the Railway Village at the Toronto Railway Museum by opening up to visitors Cabin D, Don Station and the newly restored Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo caboose. This past weekend even more visitor experience was enhanced

Click on the image for a closer look! Each year on Labour Day Weekend, I make it a point to visit the Steam Era event held in Milton, Ontario (about an hour west of Toronto) on their fairgrounds.  The major draw for me is the magnificent array of machinery that

A favourite pursuit of our intrepid band of photographers among our TRHA volunteers is to take pictures after dark when the lights of the city which surrounds us add to the allure of the photos.   Click here to explore those earlier photos. With our recent move of equipment to new

Recently, we decided for a number of reasons to reposition our engines and other rolling stock displayed within the park.  As described in this earlier posting, the major reason for doing so was to position the caboose so that we could open up both Cabin D and the caboose for

One of the ongoing concerns of the Toronto Railway Museum now that we’re entering our fourth year of operations is the interpretation of what we call the Railway Village, our collection of four historic wooden buildings located at the centre of Roundhouse Park. We seldom have enough volunteers to open

Barry Silverthorn has been a part of our TRHA adventure for many years now and is the donor of TRHA’s CN F7 Diesel Cab which he saved many years ago from the wreckers. On November 10th, 2010 in an earlier post (click here to read it!), we showed pictures of

Heather Meger, one of our TRHA volunteers, reports as follows on her family’s visit to Roundhouse Park on Sunday, July 21st: “I can vouch that it was a lovely day for a visit! I had my nephews down for the day from Barrie (hooray for the weekend GO trains!) and

Here we continue to bring you the action at the Montreal Live Steamers Annual International Meet in Les Cedres, Quebec on the July 1st long weekend.  The top three photos below show their welcoming poster which describes their facility and outlines their safety rules.  The last two photos are of

The Montreal Live Steamers are a miniature railway club who have built and operate a track in the small town of Les Cedres, Quebec near the Ontario/Quebec Border on the St. Lawrence river. They have traditionally held an International Meet over the July 1st Canada Day weekend.  I had the

One of our practices at the Museum is to rotate different pieces of equipment onto the turntable for display periodically.  This provides visitors with the opportunity to capture photographic images of the the equipment from excellent vantage points around the turntable. Stephen Gardiner recently took the opportunity to capture what