Central Pasco & Gulf Railroad The third stop on Michael’s Guy’s field trip to the Florida Live Steamers was at the Central Pasco & Gulf (CP&G) Railroad meet in Crewes Lake County Park in Pasco County. The above image by Michael Guy shows his father, John Guy driving Michael’s locomotive
You can camp in Florida in the winter! Lise and Michael enjoy fine dining Ridge Live Steamers The second stop on Michael’s Guy’s field trip to the Florida Live Steamers was at the Ridge Live Steamers’ meet. They have a 7½” gauge railroad that currently has 7,500 feet of mainline
Once upon a time, there was a tradition for Miniature Railway Clubs on the west and east coast of North America to hold an annual series of “meets” over a succession of weekends over the summer period. The umbrella organization, the International Brotherhood of Live Steamers (IBLS), oversaw these series
The Track Plan Andy Panko, a long time member of the CRHA Niagara Division, had ambitions to build a very large HO scale model railroad where he could faithfully duplicate mainline operations in the Niagara region in years past. After successfully negotiating with his good wife, he has proceeded to
Last week, we posted a TRHA News item ( accessible by clicking here ) about the newly restored CPR Steam Locomotive #1095 which is located in Kingston, Ontario. Since then, Dr. Richard Simms of Alliston us sent us these additional pictures of the locomotive as well as a glimpse of
On their recent rail fan expedition, Michael Guy and Dave Wetherald also visited the New Hope Valley Railway (NHVR) in New Hill, North Carolina. The NHVR is also home to the North Carolina Railway Museum. Click here for more information. While visiting the museum, Dave and Michael had the opportunity
On their recent railfan expedition, Michael Guy and Dave Wetherald visited Roanoke, Virginia. Roanoke is home to the O. Winston Link Museum and the Virginia Museum of Transportation. It is also the home of the very innovative Roanoke Railwalk. The “Railfan Locations” website describes the Railwalk as follows: “The David
Two of our intrepid volunteers, Michael Guy and Dave Wetherald, undertook an intense six day trip to seven different sites of interest to railfans in the eastern U.S.A. Here is a list of the places in the order that they saw them: Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum. (Thursday) Horseshoe Curve (Altoona).
The North Carolina Transportation Museum is located about five minutes off I-85, in Spencer NC, about an hour’s drive from Charlotte. The museum is located on the site of what was once Southern Railway Company’s largest steam locomotive servicing facility. With the advent of the diesel locomotive, Spencer Shops went
After my visit to the three Network Rail signal boxes (as reported here), I travelled with David Horton to Peak Rail (http://www.peakrail.co.uk/), a preserved railway where he volunteers as a signalman. For the last 26 years, Peak Rail has operated steam and diesel trains on an abandoned portion of the