Click on each image for a closer look! One of our projects for our temporary museum is the development of a display which will show the relative size of a model of a F7 Diesel locomotive in each of the popular model railroading scales. This weekend, we disassembled and prepared
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Click on each image for a closer look! There were a large number of volunteers on hand both days this weekend and a lot of work got done. Here are a few reports from the Roundhouse. Michael Guy reports as follows on the work on the miniature railway facility: “Outstanding
Click on each image for a closer look! The Canadian Association of Railway Modellers (CARM) is a national organization of railway modellers with chapters throughout the country. On Saturday March 10, 2012, the TRHA played host to the Toronto CARM Chapter. We took the opportunity to give them an extensive
Click on each image for a closer look! As the West Donlands are redeveloped in the next few years, our primary concern should be the preservation of the Cherry Street interlocking tower (Cabin A) after it’s taken out of service (IMAGES #31 and #32). This is one of three towers
Click on each image for a closer look! West of Cherry Street was, of course, the Gooderham & Worts Distillery, a firm first established in the 1830’s, now a National Historic Site. In 2003, the area was reborn as the popular Distillery District retail, dining and tourist area with what
Click on each image for a closer look! To the east of the passenger station was the freight house. There are no known photographs of any of the GTR facilities at this location but IMAGE #22 is a segment from an 1896 bird’s eye view of Toronto. The GTR Don
Click on each image for a closer look! Concerns over the hygienic preparation of meat products at other smaller slaughterhouses encouraged the City of Toronto to establish the Municipal Abattoir just west of Bathurst Street in 1914. IMAGE #18 shows this facility looking north from the Fort York ramparts. The
Click on each image for a closer look! On the southeast corner of Front and Cherry streets are two attached buildings that will also be preserved. The best known of these was the Canary Restaurant on the corner, a legendary local diner that moved into the building in 1965. (IMAGE
Click on each image for a closer look! On Thursday, January 12, 2012, a press conference was held by Waterfront Toronto to unveil plans for the $514 million Athlete’s Village at the 2015 Pan American Games. The Village will be located on 35 acres of property centred on Front Street,
Click on each image for a closer look! This weekend our TRHA volunteers continued to work on the TH&B Caboose as well as other smaller tasks. They also worked up a plan to include the U33C Diesel Cab simulator into the plan for the temporary museum space in Stall 17.