Click on each image for a closer look! . The Science and Technology Museum is a must for any railway enthusiast visiting Ottawa. It has an excellent collection of steam locomotives from both CN and CP, as well as a selection of rolling stock. . Unfortunately, much of the museum’s
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Click on each image for a closer look! . Over the past few years, we have posted numerous railway oriented night photos. A number are presented here to illustrate how powerful they can be. In an earlier TRHA News posting, we documented a recent initiative by a number of our
Click on each image for a closer look! . On Sunday, the Toronto Argonauts football team played the Wimmpeg Blue Bombers at the Rogers Centre with 19,662 fans in attendance. Toronto beat Winnipeg by a score of 17 to 13. . To celebrate the win, the Argonotes, the official Toronto
Click on each image for a closer look! . On Saturday, we decided to pull out the caboose and put it on display in the park with the Whitcomb diesel pulling the train and the Fowler boxcar completing the consist. In the picture at the lower left, we find a
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major railway oriented events that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: . “September 19,
Click on each image for a closer look!.From the 1930s until 1987 the Budd Company was a leading manufacturer of stainless steel streamlined passenger cars for a number of railroads including the CPR. In 1953 the CPR placed an order for 155 of these cars. Their famed “Canadian” passenger train
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As we close this series of posts about the Milton Steam Era Show last Labour Day weekend, we are posting some pictures which show the wide variety of equipment on display at this annual show. At the upper left, we see
One interesting “demonstration” at the Milton Steam Era Event on Labour Day weekend was the “teeter-totter” for tractors. It was a big steel platform on a pivot in the centre. The objective was to drive a large steam tractor onto the platform and then carefully move it to a point
Click on each image for a closer look! . As noted in our last TRHA News posting, an intrepid crew of TRHA volunteers led by Michael Guy attended the Milton Steam Era event where they operated the massive steam tractor shown at the upper left photo. At the upper right,
On Labour Day weekend, as noted in an earlier post, an intrepid crew of TRHA volunteers led by Michael Guy attended the Milton Steam Era event where they operated a massive steam tractor for the weekend. In this first part of our report on that event, we present a video