Our Sweet Creek Steam Locomotive is one of the bigger miniature locomotives that run on this gauge of track.  It is scaled down to 1/3 of a full size 2 foot gauge locomotive.  But others have built locomotives that are even larger, at least in some dimensions.  the Brighouse and

Stephen Gardiner recently visited the museum on a grey foggy day in January.  A few of his photos of this different winter perspective on the Park can be found below. Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Stephen Gardiner Click on each image for a closer look! http://www.trha.ca

Our Roundhouse Park miniature railway is almost the smallest size gauge used for giving rides to passengers. Our gauge is 7 1/2″. With few exceptions, commercial and tourist railways are usually at least 2 foot gauge or more. But here is one of the exceptions documented on the Internet as

In an earlier TRHA News posting, we took you to the “Miniature Wonderland” in Hamburg, Germany which could possibly be the largest model train system in the world. In Flemington, New Jersey in the U.S.A. there is another model railway system called “Northlandz” which also could lay claim to being

  As we reported in an earlier TRHA News Posting, an old roundhouse in London, Ontario has survived from the 1880’s to today.  Researchers believe, based on the earliest known insurance fire map of the area (show below) that it was built by the Michigan Central Railway. However, some still

Wikipedia tell us that: “The Lone Ranger is a 2013 American action western film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. It relates Tonto’s memories of the duo’s earliest efforts to subdue the immoral actions of the corrupt and bring justice in the American Old West. It is

For the third year in a row, the TRHA has hosted a display table at the Barrie Allandale Model Train Show held over the Valentine’s Day weekend.  This two day annual event is held in the Bradford Greenhouses a few miles west of downtown Barrie, providing an unusually bright degree

Click on the image for a closer look! Toronto City Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong recently launched a campaign to rename Union Station after Sir John A. Macdonald. This has fueled much discussion in the media. Derek Boles, our TRHA Historian, took the opportunity to make the case on behalf of the

The Toronto Railway Museum is pleased to announce that we now have two new logos to share with the world. These logos, as well as our first generation of logos, were designed by Jason Shron of our Toronto Railway Historical Association’s Advisory Board, with input from our staff and volunteer

The major project underway at the moment is the completion of a roof covering and the restoration of the windows and doors to bring this passenger car to a state of restoration which allows us to store it outside. Roof restoration By last weekend, we completed major preparation work on