Click on each image for a closer look! . James Rasor, who is leading the project to restore the TH&B caboose provides us here with an update on the work done last Saturday as well as the outstanding work to be done: “We shored the copula roof this week which
Click on the image for a closer look! . In our final news posting about this announcement, we are linking you to a number of sources of news items about this event. Today, Jim Coyle of the Toronto Star, answered the question: . “….. Still, how could it be that
. Continuing our coverage of the coming of the stage production of the Railway hildren to Roudnhouse Park, we turn to the Wikipedia entry for the Railway Children which reports as follows on the most recent stage productions:.“A new stage adaptation written by Mike Kenny and directed by Damian Cruden
Click on each image for a closer look! . As announced here by Mirvish Productions, the British production of The Railway Children is coming to Roundhouse Park this summer. Marquis Entertainment will erect a one thousand seat tent theatre over our track 39 (see model below) to accommodate the steam
Click on each image for a closer look! . On Sunday of last weekend, we also had a crew of volunteers tackling several different projects. One group were busy planning how to best wire the F7 Diesel Cab in order to power up the computer equipment and all of the
Click on each image for a closer look! . This weekend, Jim and I removed the interior of the front, left and rear sides of the van copula to review the condition of the cupola wood structure as shown in the attached photos. The TH&B #70 has been through a
Click on each image for a closer look! . We posted here an earlier series of posts on night photography of railways (click here to view that series). Just before Christmas last year, Lance Gleich, one of our volunteers, took these dramatic shots of Roundhouse Park in the snow! .
Click on each image for a closer look! . This past Sunday, a small crew of volunteers turned out to work on the U33C Cab and to clean the grab irons which had been removed from the passenger cars. When the roofs of the passenger cars had been tarred, many
Click on each image for a closer look! . This Saturday, our volunteers were hard at work again on the F7 Cab and the TH&B Caboose restorations. The F7 cab crew worked on the laying of a linoleum tile in the cab, did some remedial work on the wall of
Click on each image for a closer look! . As reported in earlier posts here and here, we have spent the last month removing parts from sister LRC locomotive number #6919, which was damaged in a sideswipe accident several years ago. This locomotive was owned by RB Railway Group in