Click on each image for a closer look!.Sunday morning found the class room sessions for our steam locomotive driver’s course wrapping up with an examination. Congratulations to the seven volunteers who all passed their steam locomotive theory exam with flying colours. The class will move on to practical studies as
Click on each image for a closer look!.This past Saturday found our crew of volunteers busy at numerous project s throughout the three stalls. Projects addressed included: Refinishing of the TH&B Caboose’s Conductor’s left cupola bench Stripping the rotten wood off the flat car Making more platforms to cover the
Click on each picture for a closer look!.The Canadian Association of Railway Modellers (CARM) was formed in October of 2003 to: to inspire. to foster fellowship among railway modellers throughout Canada. to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and skills between railway modellers. to promote the hobby of
Click on the images for a closer look! Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major railway oriented events that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: February 16, 2001: Canadian
Click on each image for a closer look!.We had a full and eventful Sunday culminating in success! Everything we had planned for the weekend is now complete. After the steam locomotive drivers’ class this morning, we got right back into it at 12:30 and finally completed the equipment shuffle planned
Click on each image for a closer look!.We had a great turn out of people today (Saturday) If I try and list everyone I will certainly miss someone so I won’t but would like to welcome a new volunteer, Dan, and thank all of our volunteers for coming out..It was
Click on each image for a closer look!.This information and these images come from my wife’s family. Her father. the late Frank “Barney” Barnes, was, at the time that he became a CPR engineer, the youngest person to do so in the history of the CPR. Yet he was 38
Click on each image for a closer look!.In this interesting pair of pictures, Stephen Gardiner, one of our volunteers, has captured the view out of the front windows of the F7 Cab into the three stalls of the Roundhouse where our restoration work continues..In this view, we see the Jackman
Click on each image for a closer look!.Thanks to the efforts of Jim Gardiner, one of our volunteers, Home Depot has generously donated a significant treasure trove of tools useful to our restoration efforts. In the attached photos, we find an enthusiastic crew of volunteers assembling these power tools this
Click on each image for a closer look!.Driving a full size steam locomotive or a miniature version is equally challenging. In order to qualify to drive a full size steam locomotive on the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway, Michael Guy and I had to invest 120 hours of operational