Click on each image for a closer look! . Saturday, March 20th . Lots of activity today at the roundhouse and lots of public wandering through and watching the performance as we shuffled cars and locomotives for a photo shoot by Norm Betts, a professional photographer who has been documenting
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . As we have noted before, our CNR Northern 4-8-4 Steam Engine #6213 is one of several that still exist across Canada. One of the other members of this class of locomotive, #6218, is located at the Fort Erie Railroad Museum. This
Click on each image for a closer look! . Well, you couldn’t ask for better March weather, it was sunny, windy and hot at +18.5C! . The project for the day was to accept and erect a pair of crossing gates donated and delivered by PNR Railworks. They also promised
High Speed Rail Canada is a citizens’ advocacy group dedicated to making the public and other stakeholders aware of the potential for high speed rail in Canada. Their website is a great portal to prior studies and well as other web based resource for those interested in the potential of
Click on each picture for a closer look! . We had yet another productive weekend with progress on a number of projects. . The TH&B van is looking very trim. The west wall is a complete structure again and the steel sheathing has been screwed back into place from the
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: . “March 13,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In this final series of weekend report pictures, we find Michael in the miniature railway train shed laying the track required to store our rolling stock. This went well and we now have two-thirds of the passenger car storage trackage bolted
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As can be seen in the photographs above, work on the TH&B caboose is proceeding very nicely with the wall reconstruction nearly complete. Remember that this caboose had a wooden structure with a metal sheathed exterior so lots of woodwork was
Click on each picture for a closer look! . This past weekend again saw progress on several old and new fronts with work continuing on the TH&B Caboose, the F7 Cab, the miniature railway engines and depot. On Saturday, Michael and Dave made a long trek to Sudbury to pick
Click on each image for a closer look! . I recently received a call from a Mr. Tim Irish, who advised that he had two authentic Canadian Pacific Railway trainman’s uniforms and he wanted to find them both a good home. After a brief conversation, he agreed to donate the