Click on each image for a closer look! . Volunteers continued to come to the Roundhouse during the week to tackle various tasks. In the image at the above left we see a team proudly showing off a window frame which had been separated from sheet metal which had been
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . As everyone is aware, Michael Guy has been steadily working on the development of a miniature version of our standard gauge Whitcomb #1 (see photo of the original at the left above) to operate on the TRHC’s miniature railway. This engine
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Sunday arrived and saw a smaller team of volunteers which was partly due to Sunday being Mother’s Day. Our team today included the Garcia family as TRHA Board Member Dan Garcia brought his mother and his father down to the Roundhouse
Click on each image for a closer look! . As today is Mother’s Day when many a mother, including mine, receive a gift of flowers from their offspring, we are presenting here some images of the magnificent planting by the City of Toronto’s Parks Department in the small “forest” which
Click on each image for a closer look! . It sure was blustery cold and wet today, if one was looking for a suitable adjective to describe the weather, “clement” might not be your first choice. Today we had another great turnout of 13 volunteers. Today’s list of milestones is:
A new Chinese train innovation – How to get on & off a bullet train without stopping. .“No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. There are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, so just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The past year has been a year of great progress. Thank you to all of you folks out there who have made a point of telling us how impressed you have been with the speed at which we have developed the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Over the years I’ve accumulated thousands of historical images of railways from a number of different sources. When I became involved with the TRHA in 2001, I started collecting in earnest images that helped tell the story of Toronto’s railways. Recently
Click on each image for a closer look! . All railways have the occasional derailment. It is a fact of life for flanged wheels on steel rail that occasionally the best laid plans come to naught and the wheels hit the ballast. It is not so much a matter of
Click on each image for a closer look! . Saturday Report . It was a very busy day on Saturday. We had another record turnout of 20 volunteers. Projects addressed included: A start on the red exterior paint on the van Much interior work done on the caboose and the