CONGRATULATIONS! We did it. We have saved #6917. . Thank you very much to everyone out there for your generous help to make this dream a reality. We could not have done it without each and every one of our 90 donors. The total donations we received totalled approximately $42,000.
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In the video below, we experience riding behind the Sweet Creek Steam Locomotive at the Roundhouse Park Miniature Railway!.Posting & Movie by Michael Guy.Click on the video below to view it! .. http://www.trha.ca
Click on each image for a closer look! . Our new hours were popular with visitors and resulted in our running the miniature railway until 6:00 p.m. one day this weekend due to popular demand. . In the middle picture above, we find John Mellow taking care of business in
Click on the image for a closer look! . Lance Gleich took this photo of Don Station on a quiet day without any crowds in Roundhouse Park and we thought that our readers would enjoy this portrait of the station as restored and in repose. . For more information about
Click on each image for a closer look! . On November 7, 1885, the Canadian Pacific Railway’s trans-continental route to the Pacific Ocean was completed with the driving of the last spike at Craigellachie in British Columbia. Today that spot lies beside the Trans-Canada Highway #1 just west of the
Click on the image for a closer look! . Wood Design and Building Magazine is a high quality magazine published quarterly by the Wood Council of Canada. In their Winter 2009-2010 issue they included an article about the restoration of the John St. Roundhouse. Their article documents the history of
Click on the image for a closer look! . While much of our focus on weekends is the staffing of the museum operation, our volunteers are still making time for further development of our facilities. Last weekend was no exception. . In these pictures we find a TRHA crew trenching
Click on each image for a closer look! . . These pictures show two stations which I explored on my trip out west to the mountains a few weeks ago. One is an original and the other is a replica. They were both on the same railroad. They were within
Click on each image for a closer look! . The long holiday weekend was a great success with large number of visitors beign drawn to Roundhouse Park. The crowds enjoyed the miniature train rides, the turntable rides, touring the cabs of #6213 and #4803 as well as visiting the interior
Click on each image for a closer look! . Last Saturday, we hosted two groups of railway enthusiasts who appropriately arrived by train in Union Station. CRHA Niagara is the division of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association (CRHA) covering the Niagara Region. They arrived on the first GO train of