The 44th Annual Barrie-Allandale Train Show will happen this weekend: Saturday, February 15th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday, February 16th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It will be held at the Bradford Greenhouses’ Garden Gallery at Highway 27 & Highway 90 in Barrie, Ontario. Admission is $6.00
A City in the Basement from Loading Doc Productions on Vimeo. No doubt some people wonder what it is about model railroading that appeals so much to those of us who are in the hobby. In this very nicely done short video, Linwood Barclay shares how he was drawn into
And for some snow plow action on an even smaller railway. In the 4 minute video above, we see miniature live steam locomotives at work on the Wimmegance and Quebec railway located in the state of Maine. Maine is renowned for having been the home of a number of 2
Continuing with your field trip to watch snow plows in action, in the video above, we find the Illinois Live Steamers have constructed a simple “rotary snow plow”. Here, they use their 4-8-4 Northern Steam Engine to clear theack for some winter operations! In the video below, we see two
With the wicked winter we are continuing to experience, it is an appropriate time to enjoy some videos of the dramatic visuals that can be captured by photographing diesel engines with their mutli-thousand horsepower engines pushing snow plows at high speed into drifts of snow. Click on each of these
Now that the preparations for our recent Volunteer and Staff Christmas party are behind us, our restoration team has turned its attention back to the Cape Race passenger car. As most of our community knows, we had the roof professionally rebuilt a couple of years ago. Now, our near term
Among miniature railway enthusiasts, one railway modeler on the west coats in Oregon is quite famous for the 11,000 foot miniature railways he has developed personally, rather than as part of a club. In an online posting he has noted that as he grows older and spends half the year
Toronto Hydro has just announced that a The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) will arrive on-site tomorrow (Saturday, February 1) in Roundhouse Park. Over the next three months, this 176 ton machine will dig its way north until it meets the existing tunnel beneath the intersection of Lower Simcoe and Front
Despite frigid conditions this past weekend, the Winter Craft Beer Festival still drew substantial crowds to Roundhouse Park. To accommodate the crowds, the festival used our Watchman’s Shanty to sell tickets and Don Station as a warming pavilion to take the chill of patrons. A diesel-powered heating system pumped in
Railroads were so important in the early part of the last century that Railroad Fairs were held to celebrate the important role of the railway in society. The Chicago Railroad Fair was organized to celebrate and commemorate 100 years of railroad history west of Chicago, Illinois. It was held in