Click on each image for a closer look! A day-long drive north from Altoona brought us to Buffalo, New York, once the second busiest railroad center in the United States after Chicago. In 1927 there were 13 different railroads serving Buffalo, including the CPR, CNR, Grand Trunk and TH&B. All
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Click on the pictures for a closer look! . . Steam-Era is the annual show produced by the “Ontario Steam & Antique Preservers Association” held at the Milton fairgrounds in in the heart of Milton, Ontario, Canada just south of their main street every Labour Day weekend. Their members are
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Continuing with our weekend coverage, we are posting more pictures of the “steam punk” group from FANEXO as described in our last TRHA news posting. . Posting by Russ Milland, Pictures by Lance Gleich . http://www.trha.ca
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Hosting conventions where devoted fans of science fiction, comic books, horror films, game heroes and anime turn out to show off their spectacular costumes, participate in workshops, buy from 100’s of vendors and meet stars in their gendres is a big
Click on each image for a closer look! . We had another fine weekend at the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre with a steady stream of visitors all weekend long. Our volunteers did a terrific job despite the City declaring an “extreme heat alert” as temperatures reached the low 30’s Celsius
Click on the image for a closer look! Following Strasburg was an early evening visit to Altoona, where we discovered that Horseshoe Curve is now completely shut down for visitor access after 5PM. The staircase is closed off and you’re not even allowed to park anywhere near the place! We
Click on each image for a closer look! The following day, August 4, I rode various commuter trains around the Philadelphia area. In my opinion Philadelphia is the most interesting city in North America to experience a wide variety of rail passenger transportation and mass transit. I had ridden most
Click on each image for a closer look! . A recent vacation in July of 2010 to visit a friend in the Philadelphia area provided an opportunity to see much of railroad interest. Unfortunately an Amtrak trip to Philly from Toronto was not in the cards since it’s impossible to
Click on each image for a closer look! . We mentioned in an earlier Field Trip Report that the young lad in the famous picture shown here of the driving of the last spike at Craigellachie, B.C. would be the feature of a future post. . Ray Argyle has written
Click on the image 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: . “August 26,