Southern Ontario was once criss-crossed with electric interurban railways in various forms which knit the communities together in an era of very poor roads. Andy Panko of the Niagara Division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association has brought our attention to an intriguing 2 1/2 minute video of a trip
Click on each image for a closer look! The evening of Saturday, January 7th, 2012 found many of our TRHA volunteers attending a party at Mother Tucker’s Marketplace in Etobicoke, Ontario. The event celebrated the tremendous contributions of the dozens and dozens of volunteers whose contributions have been essential to
Click on each image for a closer look! One of the valued and restored artifacts at the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre, and the smallest of the four structures in the railway village, is the watchmen’s shanty, which is now mounted on a permanent foundation just a few yards northwest of
Click on each image for a closer look! On December 31st, Michael Guy and I visited the Ontario Steam Heritage Museum in Puslinch, Ontario just north of Hamilton. They have a wonderful collection of huge steam tractors, many of which are fully operational. This was the occasion of the end
Click on each image for a closer look! On Saturday, December 18th, Michael Guy and Russ Milland responded to an invitation from the Niagara Railway Museum in Fort Erie, Ontario to join them for their Christmas lunch event for their members and volunteers. I had visited them a number of
Click on each image for a closer look! It was cold night for some and for others a night to celebrate the new year. With that in mind a group of TRHA volunteers braved the elements and took part in an excursion aboard a GO train, taking time to sight
“A beautiful Tuesday morning on December 27th dawned with a good 3 to 4 inches of new snow. I took out the snow blower and being alone, I pushed it around the layout to clear the tracks. My friend Claude St Laurent arrived and we then took out the club
Click on each image for a closer look! On our final day in the UK, we took the opportunity to visit one of the newest museums, the Glasgow Riverside Museum, which opened earlier this year. The Museum is the new home of the collection of the Glasgow Museum of Transport,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the TRHA! We wish to take this opportunity to wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our readers and especially to all of our volunteers, supporters and visitors who were so instrumental in our museum having had such
Click on each image for a closer look! During a brief afternoon stopover in York, we paid a visit to the National Railway Museum at York. As part of the trip, we wanted to return the visits of Charlie Bird and Adrian Ashby who spent time at the TRHC this