After a very rainy Saturday with sheets of rain coming down most of the day curtailing our outdoor operations and attendance in Roundhouse Park, Sunday dawned as a much more hospitable day. Many of our volunteers turned their attention to resuming the operations in Roundhouse Park. The interpretation of the

Is there a better way to spend a rainy day than doing restoration work at the John Street Roundhouse?  A lot of us apparently think not. There was a large crew out today to make substantial progress on a variety of fronts.  Patrick B. took on the roof work on

On a recent visit to Kingston I discovered a functional and in-use Elwell-Parker crane very similar to the one we have at the Toronto Railway Museum. Owned by Jim McCullough of McCullough Metals, the crane is a battery-electric unit rated at a maximum of 5 tons lift. Jim is pictured

While our volunteers have been very focused this past summer on the restoration of the TH&B caboose and subsequently the Cape Race, Bob Dickson, our Museum Manager, reports that one of the postal mail carts donated to us last year has now also been completely restored. Thanks to Wilson, Dan,

As mentioned in earlier updates on this website, we have a new initiative to animate the Railway Village at the Toronto Railway Museum by opening up to visitors Cabin D, Don Station and the newly restored Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo caboose. This past weekend even more visitor experience was enhanced

Click on the image for a closer look! Each year on Labour Day Weekend, I make it a point to visit the Steam Era event held in Milton, Ontario (about an hour west of Toronto) on their fairgrounds.  The major draw for me is the magnificent array of machinery that

A favourite pursuit of our intrepid band of photographers among our TRHA volunteers is to take pictures after dark when the lights of the city which surrounds us add to the allure of the photos.   Click here to explore those earlier photos. With our recent move of equipment to new

Recently, we decided for a number of reasons to reposition our engines and other rolling stock displayed within the park.  As described in this earlier posting, the major reason for doing so was to position the caboose so that we could open up both Cabin D and the caboose for

One of the ongoing concerns of the Toronto Railway Museum now that we’re entering our fourth year of operations is the interpretation of what we call the Railway Village, our collection of four historic wooden buildings located at the centre of Roundhouse Park. We seldom have enough volunteers to open

Barry Silverthorn has been a part of our TRHA adventure for many years now and is the donor of TRHA’s CN F7 Diesel Cab which he saved many years ago from the wreckers. On November 10th, 2010 in an earlier post (click here to read it!), we showed pictures of