Each year, the Barrie-Allandale Railway Modelers Association host a train show in Barrie, Ontario which is about an hour’s drive north of Toronto. This year’s show happens this coming weekend as follows:.Saturday, Feb 20th, 2010 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. andSunday, February 21st, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Click on each image for a closer look! . It was a very productive Saturday for us today! I believe we had a total of 10 people. . A crew of four removed old structural wood from the west side of the caboose and prepared new wood. The entire steel
Click on each article for a closer look! . The Kichener-Waterloo Record newspaper reported in an article titled “Staying on the Rails” on February 5th, 2010 that the City of Stratford, Ontario would on February 9th take possession of a 17-acre site which house the remains of the immense Stratford
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Bob Dickson reports on progress this week as a small team of volunteers decided to work during the week to accelerate the renovation of the TH&B caboose: . “After some minor hiccups early in the week progress is finally starting to
Click on each image for a closer look! . A week ago, we fetched a 7 ¼” gauge 0-4-0 quarry-type coal fired steam locomotive from its storage shed in Hamilton, Ontario as shown in the picture at the upper right. This engine was built in the early 1980’s to a
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As suggested in our last posting, a second locomotive is under development in our miniature railway shops; a 7-¼” gauge replica of our full-sized 50 ton CLC-Whitcomb diesel-electric switcher. The miniature will use a gasoline engine driving a hydraulic transmission which
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Once again we had a great turnout this past weekend and our teams continued to focus on the restoration of the TH&B Caboose, the F7 Diesel Cab and the disassembly of a locomotive. . The F7 Cab work included the preparation
Click on each picture for a closer look! . VIA Rail advised us this week that they had five teak railway benches for sale as surplus to their needs. We have acquired two of these benches for the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre. One of these will be used in Don
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . Thomas Blampied first came to our attention when he offered us the use of a picture he took of the TRHA’s Pyke Crane in action. I then became aware of his railway images at photopic.com on the Internet. I was very