With the annual TRHA Reception and Dinner behind us, a crew of volunteers cleaned up the “TRHA dining hall” and restored it to a restoration workshop.  Then another team moved the Cape Race out of the roundhouse and brought the recently acquired CN wooden caboose inside for further restoration. The

TRHA Lecture at the Roundhouse The Toronto Railway Historical Association has been presenting a series of three illustrated lectures by Toronto Railway Museum historian Derek Boles. Each of these fast-moving presentations is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, original animations, maps, diagrams, railway documents, advertising and other ephemera collected over the

We conclude this three part series of postings with some photos of the fine dinner catered by Whose Catering.  Whose Catering has toured the world six times with the Stones! The menu was extensive: Hors D’Oeuvres Spring Rolls With Sweet Chili Dip Spanokopikta Mushroom Leek Tarts Beef Wellingtons Thunder Beach

At 6:00 p.m. staff, volunteers and invited guests began to arrive for an hour long reception.  At 7:00 p.m. Phil Spencer spoke briefly about the successful year we experienced in 2013 at the Toronto Railway Museum. The number of visitors was up dramatically over the prior year attesting to the

On Saturday, January 17th the Toronto Railway Historical Association held its annual reception and dinner to celebrate our progress in the past year in developing the Toronto Railway Museum and especially the contributions of our staff and volunteers in making that happen. Again this year, a team of staff and

Our newly acquired caboose was featured in a recent article in the Vaughan Citizen.  The article goes into some depth on the history of the caboose at its most recent Woodbridge location with interviews with the former owners. Click here to read the article. Click here to return to Part

Last September, we alerted our readers to the major local project to develop a massive model of major Canadian landmarks and featuring an extensive model railway as part of it.  The project is called Our Home and Miniature Land. For the past year, they have been developing parts of the

Above: RBC Model Train Exhibit – Last Christmas (2013) A Christmas tradition in many places is to build a temporary model railroad layout to thrill kids of all ages during the Christmas season.  In 2012, The Royal Botanical Gardens (in Burlington, Ontario, Canada) commissioned just such a model railroad from  a U.S.