Back in late 2010, I travelled to Locomotion (and reported here in a prior post) with the express purpose of taking some measurements of LSWR #563, the locomotive that would later travel to Toronto to take part in the Railway Children in Roundhouse Park.  This year, I returned to Shildon

Neville Fairclough reports on the great progress last Saturday: “We had a long hard day with great turnout of volunteers and a great deal accomplished.   The van looked terrific by end of our work day – approximately 6pm!!!  The list of accomplishments is formidable: The sink area and ceiling inside

Click on the video to watch it! The area around York, Hanover and East Freedom in Pennsylvania has a rich Civil War era railway history.  An ambitious project called  “Steam into History” plans to build a civil war era passenger train which it will operate beginning this summer to relive

Last Saturday afternoon, the Toronto Railway Museum was invited by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to set up a display at Roy Thomson Hall for their show “All Aboard!”, a part of their Young People’s Concert series featuring the TSO along with the “Young Voices Toronto” choir performing railway themed music

As these pictures below convey so well, our volunteers continued to make great progress on the restoration of the TH&B Caboose this weekend.  Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Lance Gleich; Alex Ruppell; Stephen Gardiner Click on each image for a closer look! Painting the interior roof Grinding off the

Patrick Batchelor was an active volunteer with the TRHA while he was training in Toronto for a career in the railway industry.  Before sharing a note from him about what he is doing today, a little background information is needed.   Railways used to have their own wreck trains and

Neville Fairclough reports on last Saturday’s restoration work:   “It was a very productive day for our crew of volunteers on Saturday as all the holes and major dents in the TH&B Caboose were cleaned out and filled and hand sanding is well progressed. Towards the end of a long

We continue our exploration of historic railway images from courtesy of Mike Filey, author of the  recently published Toronto Sketches, Volume 11:   #8 – Shows a Canadian Pacific passenger train crossing over the “half-mile” bridge in the Don Valley near the Brick Works, probably in the early 1920’s. In

Many TRHA members who are also interested in the history of Toronto are probably familiar with local historian Mike Filey. Mike has written dozens of books on Toronto history, including a couple devoted exclusively to the city’s streetcars. He writes a weekly column for the Toronto Sunday Sun called The

Most of our volunteers turn out on Saturday on a weekend.  This Saturday, we had a possible record 19 volunteers appear so much was accomplished.  A few helped Bob, our museum manager, welcome and interact with the growing number of weekend visitors to Roundhouse Park. Most of the others swarmed