The Toronto Railway Historical Association’s development of facilities at the John Street Roundhouse, and at Roundhouse Park has been officially named the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre. This title will also be applied to current and future areas in the railway lands, including our facilities in Union Station. . by Orin
Click on the pictures for a closer look. . Restoration work on the John St locomotive turntable is continuing and going well. In these photos we see an example of the deteriorated bridge steel, a view of one of the new internal plate cross braces and the lower half of
On Sunday, August 12, 2007, celebrate the 150th birthday of the original Brighton Grand Trunk Railway Station at Memory Junction Museum. The ribbon cutting is at 2:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Traveling from east or west on the 401, take exit 509 south and turn right at Main Street
Click on the pictures for a closer look! While not as common today, in the past, there were many commercially operated miniature railways which took kids of all ages for rides. In the upper left photograph, you are viewing the body shell of one such locomotive which ran on 15″
Click on the picture for a closer view TRHA Historian Derek Boles spends much time on eBay monitoring items for auction related to Toronto railway history. It’s not often that items come up related to the John St. Roundhouse but this postcard appeared a couple of weeks ago and Derek
Most of you are aware that Toronto Union Station has long been a popular venue for the filming of movies, television shows, commercials and music videos. Partly this is due to the monumental scale of the photogenic Great Hall, used to great effect in the 1976 comedy/thriller “Silver Streak,” starring
Michael Guy and Russ Milland visited the premises of Western Mechanical to check out progress on restoration of the turntable bridge on July 3rd and again on July 10th. In the centre picture above, Michael admires the sandbalsting job that has been completed as of July 10th on all surfaces
Click on the pictures for a closer view Most Tuesdays during July and August, TRHA Board members Michael Guy and Russ Milland volunteer as engineer and fireman respectively to operate the passenger train on a railway which once claimed to be the world’s smallest commercial passenger hauling railway. This was
On Sunday, July 1, TRHA President Orin Krivel and Derek Boles, TRHA Historian and Director, hosted an open house at the Don Station located at Todmorden Mills. In addition to uncovering the windows and opening the doors of the station, they mounted a display of over 50 photographs showing the
Here are a couple of events happening in Toronto on Canada Day, July 1st, 2007 At 10:30 a.m., there is a wreath laying ceremony at the Monument of the Chinese Railroad Workers in Canada across Blue Jays Way from Skydome. Derek Boles, in his capacity as a Heritage Toronto board