Click on each picture for a closer look! . On Thursday of last week, work started on a concrete access ramp to the west entrance doors of the machine shop space. This will provide us with easy access to this area of the roundhouse. . Text and pictures by Michael
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last weekend, we had a great turn out for this weekend’s work crew. Thanks to Arno M., Bob D., James R., Dave W., Dave Flinn, Richard M., and Ron H. for getting a lot accomplished with dispatch and lots of applied
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As of the end of this week, we see in the picture at the above left that the new locomotive door ‘hold-open’ posts are now complete. In the middle picture, progress on the interior plumbing system work is evident. In the
Click on Each Picture for a Closer Look! . Many different groups are involved in carrying out the many tasks required to make the renovation and restoration of the roundhouse happen. Representatives of these groups meet frequently in what are know as Stakeholder Meetings to work through the many challenges
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The pictures above are samples from a new feature of the TRHA website – our “From The Archives” area. Here, we will periodically post longer articles which begin to provide us with a rich portrait of the railway history of Toronto
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . Here is a view of roundhouse park that we haven’t seen for quite a while. You can see the “shrink-wrapped” rolling stock clearly and the prepared areas between the turntable pit and the roundhouse. . By Russ Milland
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . This last weekend’s work team had a really successful work bash yesterday thanks to Arno, Bob, Mike S. and Ron. In stall 17 we used Elwell to shift the yellow platform north just enough to clear the space needed for
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The roundhouse included a 10 ton overhead crane originally installed in stall 12. It is shown in the picture at the upper left. Last weekend, a TRHA crew moved the crane carriage and hoist into the machine shop for safe storage
Click on each picture for a closer look. . . . The project to restore three of our historic Toronto railway structures – the John Street Crossing Keepers House, Cabin D and the Cabin D Tool Shed (now stored in and behind the roundhouse) – has now begun. In preparation
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . . Last week, work also began on the concrete supports for the wooden posts that hold the roundhouse locomotive doors open. . By Michael Guy, TRHA http://www.trha.ca