The Fort Wayne (Indiana) Railway Society sent out a very different Christmas card this year featuring the poignant sound of the whistles of the Nickel Plate Road #756 steam engine which has been featured in many excursions in the past few years. Click on the video above, make it full

On this occasion, we chose to share with you the video above as a very special Holiday treat as it captures so well the magnificence of the massive steam locomotives that were so instrumental in the development of our country.  It features the “Empress”, CP’s magnificently restored Royal Hudson, as

Our volunteers continue their exterior work on CN Caboose #79144. We were concerned that the Tongue and Groove siding be straight and square to the van body. It is very easy to align almost right but not quite straight and then we have to live with an unattractive restoration. So

The Holidays are now up on us and opportunities beckon for the train enthusiast young and old.  In this series of TRHA News postings, we will highlight several opportunities for we and our families to satisfy our love of trains in this festive season. Dream Machines: The Art of Rowland

We are making excellent progress in the restoration of the CN caboose as the four attached photos show. The interior clean out is 98% done and we are ready to begin interior repairs. The interior photo is slightly out of date as the old, thin, deteriorated plywood ceiling is now

With the CN caboose now safely housed in Stall 15 of the Roundhouse and undergoing exterior restoration, what do we know about the history of this caboose? CNR Caboose #79144 The caboose was the CN’s Caboose #79144 and was first built by the Eastern Car Company in 1920 as a

Once our newly acquired CN caboose was safely moved to Roundhouse Park, we moved our CP #7020 switcher out of Stall 15 and moved the caboose into that stall.  We decided to remove both the secondary cladding and the original wood siding on the caboose as the original siding had

Further to our last news posting, the owners of the CN caboose generously donated it to the Museum and also contributed to the cost of moving it. In the images below, we follow the process of loading the caboose body onto a flatbed trailer and moving it off the property.

Over the past couple of years, it was brought to our attention that a CNR caboose, which had been used as living quarters at  a garden centre in Woodbridge, Ontario would become available as the property was redeveloped.  The images below, taken over the past couple of years, show the

The TED talk above is both very humorous and eye opening.  A fascinating 17 minute video of a revolutionary new TV programming approach.  Well worth watching! Posting by Russ Milland http://www.trha.ca