Click on each image for a closer look! Here, we are presenting three fine photos taken by Stephen Gardiner inside the Don Station which capture the atmosphere of the station so well. Also presented is a pair of “steamy” images of the Sweet Creek, our miniature live steam locomotive on
Click on each image for a closer look! One of the walls in our temporary museum space has been designed and built by our volunteers to be grooved to hold displays. Here we see the final finished wall and then we find Lise, an expert costume maker, dropping by in
Click on each image for a closer look! One of our projects for our temporary museum is the development of a display which will show the relative size of a model of a F7 Diesel locomotive in each of the popular model railroading scales. This weekend, we disassembled and prepared
Click on each image for a closer look! There were a large number of volunteers on hand both days this weekend and a lot of work got done. Here are a few reports from the Roundhouse. Michael Guy reports as follows on the work on the miniature railway facility: “Outstanding
Click on each image for a closer look! The Canadian Association of Railway Modellers (CARM) is a national organization of railway modellers with chapters throughout the country. On Saturday March 10, 2012, the TRHA played host to the Toronto CARM Chapter. We took the opportunity to give them an extensive
Click on each image for a closer look! As the West Donlands are redeveloped in the next few years, our primary concern should be the preservation of the Cherry Street interlocking tower (Cabin A) after it’s taken out of service (IMAGES #31 and #32). This is one of three towers
Click on each image for a closer look! West of Cherry Street was, of course, the Gooderham & Worts Distillery, a firm first established in the 1830’s, now a National Historic Site. In 2003, the area was reborn as the popular Distillery District retail, dining and tourist area with what
Click on each image for a closer look! To the east of the passenger station was the freight house. There are no known photographs of any of the GTR facilities at this location but IMAGE #22 is a segment from an 1896 bird’s eye view of Toronto. The GTR Don
Click on each image for a closer look! Concerns over the hygienic preparation of meat products at other smaller slaughterhouses encouraged the City of Toronto to establish the Municipal Abattoir just west of Bathurst Street in 1914. IMAGE #18 shows this facility looking north from the Fort York ramparts. The
Click on each image for a closer look! On the southeast corner of Front and Cherry streets are two attached buildings that will also be preserved. The best known of these was the Canary Restaurant on the corner, a legendary local diner that moved into the building in 1965. (IMAGE