Click on each picture for a closer look! Stephen Low is a gifted producer of IMAX films and we have known for some time that his company, The Stephen Low Company, is working on the production of an IMAX film starring CP’s #2816 Royal Hudson steam engine. The film, titled
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Click on each image for a closer look! This week a crew of TRHA volunteers are making great progress in resurrecting the old right of way from under its gravel covering where it rested while the Railway Children Production was underway. The original track was in very good shape so
Click on each image for a closer look! In the attached images, we find our Saturday crew out on the deck of the flat car celebrating its completion. Congratulations to the intrepid crew of volunteers who persisted in working on the car for many weeks now to get the job
With this TRHA News posting, we complete our coverage of the Railway Children production which happened in Roundhouse Park this past summer. The video below was taken in June of 2011 during one of a number of Open Houses held to let the public learn more about the production. In
Click on each image for a closer look! Continuing our report on the departure of the Heritage train set from the Railway Children production for the U.K., we find the Adams T3 Steam engine being tied down to the float and then finally departing Roundhouse Park with one serious police
Click on each image for a closer look! With the successful conclusion of the Railway Children production the heritage train set consisting of the Adams T3 4-4-0 steam engine and the Director’s Carriage were loaded onto truck transports this past week and will subsequently be taken by train to the
Click on each image for a closer look! Work also continued this past weekend on the replacement of the wooden decking on the flat car. In this series of images we get a closer look at how this is done. TRHA volunteers are seen building heavy metal clips which are
Click on each image for a closer look! Weekend operations of the miniature railway continued as other TRHA volunteers addressed other tasks at hand. We disassembled a temporary structure inside the Roundhouse used with one of the portable simulators, recycling the wood for other purposes. In the images below we
Click on each image for a closer look! A flurry of news postings in the press in August documented the plans by Ripley’s Entertainment (famed for their “Believe It or Not” roots as a corporation) to build an aquarium at the foot of the CN Tower between it and Bremner
Click on each image for a closer look! Continuing my reporting on what I learned from visiting the West Coast Railway Associations terrific museum in Squamish, B.C., I now turn to their collection of passenger cars many of which are used as museum display cars. A few are in great