Click on each picture for a closer look! A Brief History of the Railfan Hobby in Canada – Part 2 of 5 by Derek Boles It’s difficult to determine with any accuracy the number of railway enthusiasts in North America since most railfans don’t belong to any organization. Periodical circulations
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
Click on each 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 events in Canadian history that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: “November 3,
Click on each image for a closer look! . Bob Dickson of the TRHA has provided us with a second letter written by his great uncle James William Campbell Dickson (as pictured at upper left). The first letter was published by us here. . Today’s letter describes a trip from
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As most of you know, Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major events in Canadian history that happened on that day of the year. Among the many items
Click on each image for a closer look! . This article appeared in the Upper Canada Railway Society newsletter Number 6 in March 1942. John Loye was born in Montreal in 1880 and was one of the founding members and the first president of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association in
Click on the image for a closer look! . Further to the first part of this posting where we shared John Mellow’s pictures of #1057 in the 1970’s with you as well as Derek Boles’ posting of the anniversary of her first steaming up again at the South Simcoe Railway,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As mentioned in earlier TRHA News postings, Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major events in Canadian history that happened on that day of the year. In today’s
Click on each picture for a closer look! . An Ode to a Canadian National Steam Locomotive . There has always been a long association between railroading and poetry. When the railway era began in the 19th century, poetry was a much more prevalent form of communications than it is
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As reported in Derek Boles’ daily postings on the Toronto Railway Heritage Group on Yahoo, today is the 25th anniversary of the donation of #4803 to the City of Toronto. Here is Derek’s posting: . August 26, 1984: . “The Canadian