Click on the image for a closer look! November 7, 2011 marked the 126th anniversary of the driving of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Last Spike at Craigellachie, British Columbia in 1885. Nowhere else in the world has a private railway company been so inextricably linked to nation building as the

Click on each image for a closer look! Keeping our restoration stalls clean, safe and orderly is a continual challenge. James Rasor reports here on the great job that our TRHA volunteers did today as they made significant progress on organizing this area for our busy winter restoration programme. “The

Buster Keaton was one of the most famous silent film comedians of all time. The National Film Board of Canada has a long and storied history of producing great short films. They generously make hundreds of these films available for viewing online at www.nfb.ca. The Wikipedia entry for the NFB

Click on each image for a closer look! Once again this year, our TRHA volunteers decided to celebrate Halloween, albeit a day early on Sunday, October 30th! The decorating crew started at eight that morning and continued right through the day. Miniature railway operations operations started at noon using the

Click on each image for a closer look! With the re-installation of the park benches and the removal of the fences protecting the newly re-sodded areas of the park, all traces of the Railway Children production having been in the park are gone. As we can see in these images,

Click on the image above for a closer view! “Roundhouses Revived ! Second Debut” is an article by Guylaine Spencer in a recent issue of Via Rail’s Destinations magazine. It begins: “Their half-moon shape and brick-and-wood construction distinguishes the buildings from the angular glass-and-steel skyscrapers engulfing them. At first glance,

Click on each image for a closer look! Is it a van or is it a caboose? It appears that both names have been used for these unique pieces of rolling stock in North America. As our readers will have noticed in past news postings, TRHA volunteers have been making

Click on each image for a closer look! Saturdays each week see the most volunteers turning out to not only help with our operations but also to staff our work crews on our various projects. This Saturday was no exception as had sixteen volunteers helping out. Some of the crews

Click on each image for a closer look! Perhaps the largest operating model railroad in Canada can be found in Montreal, Quebec. The Canada Central Railway, as it is known, occupies 9,000 square feet of space in a CN building under the railway tracks in downtown Montreal. It has been

Click on each image for a closer look! The Roundhouse Park areas formerly occupied by the Railway Children production are now being restored to their former condition. In support of this work, our intrepid TRHA volunteers were busy this week moving our CNR Northern #6213 off the turntable so that