Click on each picture for a closer look! After six years of successful operation, the Toronto Railway Historical Association is discontinuing the monthly tours of Union Station led by TRHA Historian Derek Boles. The ongoing revitalization of the station has made the tours difficult due to construction noise and increasingly
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Click on each image for a closer look! As promised in our press release, the museum was in full operation on Friday, April 20th in order to allow the media to visit and see the enormous progress we have made in the past few years to turn Roundhouse Park into
Click on the image for a closer look! . TRHA Frustrated by Utility’s Reversal of Promise on Roundhouse Machine Shop . Friday, April 20, 2012 —The Railway Historical Association (TRHA) has appealed directly to the President and CEO of Hydro-Electric System Limited to enter into good faith discussions with the
Click on each image for a closer look! This past weekend also saw lots of action in Roundhouse Park itself with the miniature railway carrying many passengers. It also saw our volunteers beginning to work in both Don Station and Cabin D to prepare them for visitors when we re-open
Click on each image for a closer look! As our volunteers arrived on Saturday morning, we had to manoeuvre around a big crane and the truckloads of new tanks being delivered to our neighbours at Steam Whistle. Once settled in, our volunteers got down to a laundry list of tasks
Click on each image for a closer look! Bill Kaufman is the enthusiast who developed our U33C Diesel Cab Simulator – a 19 year long project! Bill has also generously donated a number of items to help us restore our diesel cabs. This past weekend, we picked up a set
Click on each image for a closer look! We had a very busy Easter weekend in Roundhouse park. Hundreds of riders enjoyed trips on our miniature railway on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. While visitors enjoyed visiting the park, crews of volunteers could be found in the three stalls and the
Click on each image for a closer look! Last month, Via Rail opened a new expanded 6,200 square foot Panorama Lounge for Business Class and Sleeper Plus passengers in Toronto’s Union Station. It features: Free Wi-Fi (high-speed wireless Internet access throughout the lounge) Business Centre (PC and Mac computers and
Click on each image for a closer look! As you may recall from TRHA news posts last summer, one of the two diesel engines in our CLC Whitcomb locomotive failed last summer. This winter we removed the failed engine and order a new reconditioned engine as its replacement. In these
Click on each image for a closer look! This weekend proved to be a very busy one as multiple crews of volunteers worked on many different projects. Among the projects tackled were: Completion of the blue set of miniature railway passenger cars. Running board rubber is repaired where necessary and