Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . . . Each year, The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) has Holiday Trains which hit the rails on December 1st visiting over 100 communities in seven states and six provinces to raise food, money and awareness for local food banks.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . As announced earlier in the news column, the TRHA was there last weekend at the Christmas Train Show, the largest annual railway themed event in the Toronto Area. Derek Boles updated our traditional display of historical pictures with a new
Click on the centre button above to watch the video .The turntable should have moved this morning but did not solely due to a lack of the correct centre bearing lubricant. A five-gallon pail of “the right stuff” is expected to arrive tomorrow. Once it does arrive, we will move
Click on each picture for a closer look! . It was a dark and stormy night – no wait, wrong fairy-tale. It was a wet and muddy day at the John St Roundhouse as work continued on the turntable restoration, roundhouse interior renovations and a little track-work off
Click on the picture for a closer look! . This picture from the Toronto Public Archives shows Union Station under construction prior to its opening in 1927. . On Wednesday, November 14th, Toronto Mayor David Miller publicly unveiled the city’s new plan for the restoration and redevelopment of Union Station.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . . As the Eastern Finals prior to the Grey Cup next week were being played across the street, the Raptors played a block away and the Santa Claus parade wended its way through Toronto a few blocks away, a TRHA
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . Western Mechanical have now removed all of the lifting devices used to position the turntable. They will now spend the next week or two finishing the deck structure and rendering the turntable operational. Above are some pictures of the turntable
Click on each picture for a closer look! Today we feature some of the team from Western Mechanical who made it happen this week. At the upper left, we see four of Western Mechanicals finest … from left ot right, technicians Joe and Matt, lift boss Nick and project engineer
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the news item below, we noted that the turntable move bgan at 9:07 a.m and included a video of this happening. . By 11:47 a.m. today, the turntable had been moved into place and the center bearing had been bolted
This video shows the turntable bridge beginning to move along the gantry crane’s track at 9:07 a.m. today as the Western Mechanical team carefully monitors its progress. Click on the button in the middle of the image to start the video..by Dave Wetherald, TRHA http://www.trha.ca