Click on the picture for a closer look! There was thought to be no photograph of this first Union Station, however the illustration above was recently found in the National Archives in Gatineau, Quebec. It is a stereograph image dated about 1860 and is looking west, similar to the view

Click on the picture for a closer look! The illustration at the right above is a circa 1860 watercolour by William Armstrong that has been reproduced in almost every book about Toronto history and depicts the first Union Station looking southwest. Armstrong used artistic license to incorporate a number of

…… …. Click on brochure or each picture for a closer look! . TRHA plans to develop a model railroad depicting the Toronto Rail Lands to likely be located within Union Station as part of its plan for the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre. It will not be the first such

Click on the picture for a closer look! The illustration above is a reproduction of an 1858 map of Toronto and shows the location of several railway facilities. Union Station can be seen in the center of the map just to the left of the Esplanade. The two earlier stations

Click on the picture for a closer look! . As noted in an earlier news item, the cab is now complete and awaits mating with the locomotive. Dave W. picked up the cab last Sunday and brought it to our steam engine assembly shop. Since the reach rod and brake

Click on the picture for a closer look! The Grand Trunk had quickly evolved into the most important railway in Canada, connecting the east coast of the United States with Montreal, Toronto and eventually Chicago. The illustration at teh left is an 1857 handbill advertising the railway’s routes and services

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last Saturday, a team of eight volunteers (James R., Bob, Ron, Richard, James G., Paul, Jason, and Lance) quickly noticed something different in the machine shop–the door to the stalls had been bricked closed (see picture at upper left)! Taking

…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . The “tender men” have now completed the cab and will send it off shortly to the shop where the steam engine is being assembled. Once it arrives there it will be test fitted on the chassis before being sent off

Click on the picture for a closer look! 2008 marked the sesquicentennial or 150th anniversary of the first Union Station in Toronto. The railway era began in Toronto in 1853, when the first Ontario, Simcoe & Huron Ry. train departed from the city for Machell’s Corners, thirty miles to the

… … Click on each picture for a closer look! . Now that the Burlington based team has completed their work on the steam engine’s tender, they have been working on assembling the cab which is now almost nearly complete. In the above pictures we find Pat in action fastening