At 6:00 p.m. staff, volunteers and invited guests began to arrive for an hour long reception. At 7:00 p.m. Phil Spencer spoke briefly about the successful year we experienced in 2013 at the Toronto Railway Museum. The number of visitors was up dramatically over the prior year attesting to the
On Saturday, January 17th the Toronto Railway Historical Association held its annual reception and dinner to celebrate our progress in the past year in developing the Toronto Railway Museum and especially the contributions of our staff and volunteers in making that happen. Again this year, a team of staff and
Our newly acquired caboose was featured in a recent article in the Vaughan Citizen. The article goes into some depth on the history of the caboose at its most recent Woodbridge location with interviews with the former owners. Click here to read the article. Click here to return to Part
Last September, we alerted our readers to the major local project to develop a massive model of major Canadian landmarks and featuring an extensive model railway as part of it. The project is called Our Home and Miniature Land. For the past year, they have been developing parts of the
Above: RBC Model Train Exhibit – Last Christmas (2013) A Christmas tradition in many places is to build a temporary model railroad layout to thrill kids of all ages during the Christmas season. In 2012, The Royal Botanical Gardens (in Burlington, Ontario, Canada) commissioned just such a model railroad from a U.S.
The Fort Wayne (Indiana) Railway Society sent out a very different Christmas card this year featuring the poignant sound of the whistles of the Nickel Plate Road #756 steam engine which has been featured in many excursions in the past few years. Click on the video above, make it full
On this occasion, we chose to share with you the video above as a very special Holiday treat as it captures so well the magnificence of the massive steam locomotives that were so instrumental in the development of our country. It features the “Empress”, CP’s magnificently restored Royal Hudson, as
Our volunteers continue their exterior work on CN Caboose #79144. We were concerned that the Tongue and Groove siding be straight and square to the van body. It is very easy to align almost right but not quite straight and then we have to live with an unattractive restoration. So
The Holidays are now up on us and opportunities beckon for the train enthusiast young and old. In this series of TRHA News postings, we will highlight several opportunities for we and our families to satisfy our love of trains in this festive season. Dream Machines: The Art of Rowland
We are making excellent progress in the restoration of the CN caboose as the four attached photos show. The interior clean out is 98% done and we are ready to begin interior repairs. The interior photo is slightly out of date as the old, thin, deteriorated plywood ceiling is now