Click on the image for a closer look! . Given the workload that we are under at Roundhouse Park, preparing for our grand opening weekend for the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre, we are going to suspend publishing news items until the Opening happens. . So for everyone’s benefit, we are
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Click on each image for a closer look! . About twelve volunteers appeared on Sunday eager to further progress on many projects. In addition to continuing on the caboose, the F7, the U33C and the fine tuning of our miniature railway through ongoing track testing, we began to uncover the
Click on each image for a closer look! . We had a grand day on Saturday with only a little light rain to dampen the proceedings. It was a long day too. Some of us didn’t arrive home until mid-evening. Here is a partial list of what happened today: The
The vendor of our electronic sign finally managed to get our access to the signage working properly last week. The TRHA can now communicate to the public through yet another communications channel. In this You Tube video, out first message is shown. It simply says: “Toronto Railway Heritage Centre Opening
Click on each image for a closer look! . Continuing our report on activities during this past week, we first see at the upper right that Cabin D and Don Station are nearing completion. In the right hand picture above, we see that #1 and our #4803 have been positioned
Click on each image for a closer look! . As we get closer and closer to our opening event, many of our volunteers are turning up during the week to help expedite completion on a number of fronts. . In the above images at the upper left and middle, we
Click on the image for a closer look! . While we haven’t kept it a secret, we haven’t dedicated a News Posting as yet to announcing our grand opening weekend for the first phase of the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre. We are now doing so by releasing this poster which
Click on each image for a closer look! . Saturday . It was another great Saturday effort by our intrepid volunteers as we: Almost completed the east wall of the TH&B caboose; We expect to install its tongue and groove planking next week. Continued restoration of the F7 progressed steadily
Click on each image for a closer look! . While our volunteers continued to drive forward with our projects in Roundhouse Park this weekend, a few of us spent all or part of the weekend at the Museum of Steam and Technology’s “Boats, Trains and Meccanno” event held every year
Click on the image for a closer look! . One of the major jobs in the restoration of our three stalls of the roundhouse was the installation of the electrical and lighting system. This work is now complete. In the attached system, we show the fine results of this work