Click on each picture for a closer look! Many of us spent our youth (and often well beyond) haunting railways and railway yards as well as participating in railfan trips and then working to duplicate these railways in miniature. In this serialized series of postings, we will publishing for the
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . Once again, the Halton County Radial Railway Museum hosted special Christmas trolley trips at their museum last December 5th and 12th from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. They are located on Guelph Line a few kilometres north of the 401 Highway
Click on each picture for a closer look! . There was a great turn out of TRHA volunteers last Saturday. The weather was sunny and warmish at +3C or so around midday but by late afternoon the wind was up and it got decidedly crisp around the ears. We had
Click on each link for a closer look! . In this final set of pictures, we wrap up our visit to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in our search for ideas for our evolving museum. Here are the captions for each of these images: . #13: This is a Climax
Click on each image for a closer look! . Continuing our tour of the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum, we offer the following captions to the images. . #7: The main display pavilion for the engines and rolling stock has an overhead walkway across the middle of the pavilion which leads to
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In an earlier news posting we visited the Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania. As noted then, the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum was right across the street from this museum. In this news posting, I will cover some of the highlights of that visit.
Click on each image for a closer look! . Often it has been difficult to find pictures of our equipment in operation. In the case of the Pyke crane, we are fortunate to have access to several pictures of it at work in the rail corridor in downtown Toronto. In
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Today’s pictures show the “moat” between Union Station and Front Street. There are three bridges over the moat, one each for the office entrances to the east and west wings and the much larger centre bridge which provides access to the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In this series of pictures above, we first see the diesel power truck that is being used to support the F7 Cab. It was moved using our CLC Whitcomb switcher to the loading track and the cab and truck united for
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The F7 Cab has finally arrived at Roundhouse Park. In this sequence of pictures above we see the Cab arriving by float from Western Mechanical on Friday of last week. The Cab was delivered to the end of the track under