Click on each picture for a closer look! . Yesterday, Don Station was reassembled on its new foundation. It will now undergo a repair and restoration process over the next few months. In the pictures above, we see the assembly in progress and note that Cabin D has yet to
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In these pictures we see the six parts of Don Station awaiting reassembly and restoration their having been successfully moved to Roundhouse Park. In the upper left photo, we find the turret and roof cap, more popularly known as a “witches’
Click on each picture for a closer look! . On Thursday, December 11th, the rail was delivered on a trailer and unloaded by a TRHA team onto the grounds behind the Roundhouse. . Then, on Saturday, December 13th, a rail moving crew consisting of four teams of two TRHA volunteers
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Early in the fall of 2008, the TRHA was made aware of a supply of small size rail suitable for use in the building of our miniature railway in Roundhouse Park. So we made the trek to Brantford to visit the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The historic Don Station was moved early on the morning of December 10, 2008 from Todmorden Mills to its permanent home at the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre at Roundhouse Park. . The structure was divided into six sections to facilitate the
“Love affair with troubled Turbo Train turns into a successful niche business” . These are the headlines as longtime TRHA board member, Jason Shron, was in the news recently, on the front page of the Toronto Star’s Business section. Jason is the proprietor of Rapido Trains, which since its founding
Click on each picture to get a closer look! . . We had a great day Saturday with four teams working at once! . As seen in the picture at left, Richard and Lance seemed to be having fun, properly harnessed and hatted, high atop the scissor lift continuing with
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Work continues on the area between the turntable and the roundhouse. In the picture at left, we find Mike building the re-bar skeleton for the concrete foundation to support the new pit rim safety fence. In the middle picture, we see
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As we can see in these pictures, workers have now raised Don Station onto wooden cribs in preparation for its imminent move to Roundhouse Park. They have also cut it into two pieces for the move as is evident in the
Click on each picture for a closer look . On Saturday, we formed two work crews to tackle jobs both inside and outside the roundhouse. The indoor crew donned harnesses and went up in a scissor lift to salvage a number of original light fixtures with shades and glass globes.