Click on each image for a closer look! . It was an agreeable day with no rain to dampen proceedings but it was cold and damp enough that our steam engines made spectacular steam effects all day as we can see in these photos. The reassembled smaller steam engine, the
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Click on each image for a closer look! . Today was quite cool and cloudy but thanks to a series of Wiggles concerts durign the day for the wee folk at the Rogers Centre, there was steady visitor traffic all afternoon which kept the miniature railway busy. Meanwhile, inside the
Click on each image for a closer look! . Above, we have a scene captured by TRHA volunteer Lance Gleich from earlier in the summer when it was warm enough for shorts to be worn! A weekend miniature railway crew wipes down TRHA locomotive #3 after a day’s duty of
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Further to yesterday’s images of the John St. Roundhouse in 1985 as it was about to close, Derek Boles, our TRHA historian offers these two images to contrast how the interior looked in 1929 (Toronto Archives image) when the roundhouse first
Click on each image for a closer look! . “Back on February 20, 1985, I had the opportunity to visit the old CPR John Street Roundhouse near downtown Toronto. While Canadian National’s/VIA Spadina Avenue Roundhouse received more notoriety, John Street was an awesome place to visit. CP maintained a small
Click on each image for a closer look! . One of the premier railway museums in the world, the National Railway Museum (NRM) was opened in 1975 as a dedicated museum for the national collection of railway artefacts. This interesting museum is located within a five-minute walk of the busy
Click on each image for a closer look! . Don Station is receiving a number of final touches to complete its restoration. John Mellow reports on recent changes as follows: . “Don station has received new moulding around the waiting room side of the the ticket counter. Based on the
Click on each image for a closer look! . With the acquisition of the Walmsley collection earlier this year, our collection of speeders (also known as railway motorcars) has grown significantly. This past weekend, we began the process of cleaning up the machine shop. In the process of doing so,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . This week TRHA acquired a platform scissor lift for use in the miniature railway depot building. In photo #1 we see (me!) unloading it from a delivery truck. Photos #2 and #3 show it being placed inside the depot door onto
Click on the video above to relive a ride around the miniature railway track after dark on Thanksgiving Day evening. In our last post, we described the circumstances behind our choosing to run in the dark that evening..To return to the first part of this series of postings, click here!.Posting