Click on each picture for a closer look! . The Toronto Railway Historical Association is pleased to announce the acquisition of a significant new artifact for the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre Archives. It is a hand coloured architectural rendering of Toronto’s 1890s Union Station expansion and was acquired through the
September 12, 2007 marked the fifth anniversary of the ToRyHeritage Yahoo group and, no, it’s not about the current leader of the provincial Conservative party..The Toronto Railway Heritage group was created in 2002 to provide a forum for the discussion of the history of Canadian railways, with a focus on
. . . . . Click on the pictures for a closer look! . . This past week a TRHA team got started on repairing and repainting the CLC-Whitcomb locomotive. Over Friday and Saturday we fixed all the broken or missing windows, cleaned the mouse nests out of the cab
. . Click on each picture for a closer look! On Sunday, September 30, the Toronto Railway Historical Association will be hosting another open house at the Don Station at Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre from 12 NOON to 5 PM. in Toronto. . The Canadian Pacific Railway
Come & celebrate railway history on September 15th, 2007 in Goderich, Ontario . Share with us the 100th anniversary of the CPR bridge and the railway station (1907-2007) with ceremonies, bands, clowns, operating garden railway, heritage walks, railway artifacts, lantern workshop & procession and the BIA “Health and Harvest Festival”
Click on the pictures for a closer look! . . Steam-Era is the annual show produced by the “Ontario Steam & Antique Preservers Association” held at the Milton fairgrounds in Milton, Ontario every Labour Day weekend. Their members are devoted to the preservation and restoration of heritage equipment and bring
The coming Sunday, August 26 is the Elgin County Railway Museum’s 19th annual Railway Heritage Day from 10 am to 4 pm. . Most of their rolling stock will be outside on display for picture taking including a freshly painted “Empress of Agincourt”, which is a one-of-a-kind RSD-17, ex-CP Rail
. . . . . . . In a recent posting here, we described our experience in operating steam powered trains at the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway. Today, Russ Milland returned to this railway to help them celebrate the unveiling of a plaque and a small stretch of
Click on any picture for a closer view! Today at 3:15 p.m. the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre received it’s first piece of new equipment and the first new rail item to enter Roundhouse Park in almost two decades. A Canadian Locomotive Company – Whitcomb (CLC-W) 50 ton diesel-electric industrial switcher
Click on the picture for a closer look! Here are three shots for the steam engine enthusiasts! One of the air motors has been stripped for inspection and repair and was found to be structurally indistinguishable from any engine built to run on steam. In the first photo at the