Click on each image for a closer look! Further to Derek Boles’ article in yesterday’s TRHA News posting, we travel the web in search of coverage of the anniversary of this great event. From Driving The Last Spike to Driving The Digital Railway by the CPR The Canadian Pacific Railway’s
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . November 7, 2010 marks the 125th anniversary of the driving of the Canadian Pacific Railway Last Spike at Craigellachie, British Columbia in 1885. Nowhere else in the world has a private railway company been so inextricably linked to nation building as
Click on each image for a closer look! . Barry Silverthorn has been a part of our TRHA adventure for many years now and is the donor of TRHA’s CN F7 Diesel Cab which he saved many years ago from the wreckers. But that is not the topic of this
Click on each image for a closer look! Derek Boles, who has coordinated our weekend operations at the Toronto Heritage Railway Centre (TRHC) all season long, provided this update on the Halloween Eve event which was the fianale to our operating season for 2010. “We had been operating the mini-Whitcomb
Click on each image for a closer look! . This weekend was the last of the season for the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre. Sunday was a chilly day in Roundhouse Park and we even saw snow falling as captured in the picture of Cabin D at the upper left. Despite
Click on each image for a closer look! . As we move into our winter projects season, one of our priorities was the cleaning up of the machine shop area to allow us to use more of that space for upcoming projects. . Saturday, Jim, myself, and Bob spent the
Click on each image for a closer look! The Maritime Railway was a 12 mile steam powered line which operated in Nova Scotia from 1887 until 1961. The line ran between the coal mines in Joggins and the Inter Colonial Railway (IRC) mainline at Maccan. The line began operation as
Click on the image for a closer look! . A number of us have visited Exporail (as reported here) which can legitimately lay claim to being Canada’s National Railway Museum. Last summer I visited the site of this monumental event in Canada’s history as documented in this TRHA News Blog
Click on each image for a closer look! . Railfanning, described in an earlier TRHA News post) is a popular pastime pursued by many railroad enthusiasts. Brian Switzer is an avid railfan who shares the images and stories of his excursions on the Internet. His latest adventure involved the pursuit
Click on each image for a closer look! . The past few weeks at Roundhouse Park have been very colourful as the leaves respond to the cooling temperatures. Last Saturday, James Rasor made a special effort to capture the fall colours as our miniature railway train ran through the park’s