Do you know that we have a presence on both Facebook and Twitter? Our TRHA News blog and the TRHA Yahoo group is not our only means of communicating with our volunteers and our friends in the world at large. As note in an earlier post, we post links to
Click on the image for a closer look! Susan Forint recently posted to our Facebook page a link to a blog item that she had produced about this fascinating photo from 1945. Here is some of what she shared in that blog item: “While The Canadian is lead by a
Recently, the plaque shown below was installed in the TH&B Caboose. It recognizes the large crew of volunteers who contributed their time and energy to the restoration project. Our thanks go out to all of them for their fine effort. Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Lance Gleich and Stephen
While I was away on vacation back in early August, our volunteers were busy applying lettering to the TH&B #70 caboose. This was the last major step in the restoration of the caboose. The photos below of them carefully doing this work are now part of our history. Posting by
Periodically, we need to redeploy our rolling stock and other equipment in Roundhouse Park. On Thursday, September 26th we assembled a crew of volunteers to safely make such a series of moves. Michael Guy reports on what happened that day: “Our equipment shuffle got off to a good start at
Over the past few centuries, railway tracks have evolved from being made of wood, then metal and wood and then steel rails on wooden or concrete ties which is what is typically uses today. As railways built larger and heavier engines and rolling stock, the weight of the rail per
The Canadian Railway Historical Association owns and operates Exporail, our national railway museum in Delson, Quebec across the St. Lawrence River just south of Montreal. They also publish a monthly magazine, Canadian Rail, and you can access decades of these issues online by clicking here. They also have chapters across
Our intrepid photographer, Stephen Gardiner, in addition to the photos he took of the Fanexpo folks in Roundhouse Park, also captured a number of photos that weekend of the rest of our Park from some unique perspectives. Enjoy! Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Stephen Gardiner Click on each image
Last August, legions of fans descended on the Metro Convention Centre for the Fan Expo event The Fan Expo website says: “Considered by many to be the “Comic Con” of Canada, Fan Expo Canada™ humbly began as the Canadian National Comic Book Expo in 1995. Growing from one genre with
On July 1st 2013 this fine steam locomotive was re-dedicated on the occasion of the completion of its restoration as shown in the photo above. Engine #1095, also known as ‘The Spirit of Sir John A.’ has provided a favourite photo op for tourists visiting Confederation Park for more than