Click on each image for a closer look! . On Thursday, December 16th, 2010 at 7:00 a.m., McCulloch Movers loaded up our “new” flat car for delivery to Roundhouse Park. It was a little longer than Greg McCulloch could fit on his tracked trailer so he chose to lift the

Click on the pictures above for a closer look! . Railways have always been challenged with winter snowstorms. Today, you often find snow plow blades mounted on the front of today’s locomotives to allow a train to clear the tracks ahead of it when the amounts of snow on the

Click on each image for a closer look! . An annual party to celebrate our continuing success with the development of the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre has become a tradition. This year, Steam Whistle Brewing kindly provided us their meeting space upstairs in their premises in the Roundhouse. A great

Click on each picture for a closer look! . In addition to the busy Saturday work sessions, volunteers often assemble at the Roundhouse and elsewhere to tackle a number of other opportunities to further our projects. . At the above left, we see the enhanced lighting around Don Station allowing

Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last Saturday, the primary task tackled by our volunteers was the continued work to prepare the Jackman passenger car to be relocated form the three stalls to the park outside for the rest of the winter to provide much needed space

Click on each picture for a closer look! . As reported in an earlier news item this year, we successfully undertook a fund raising campaign which resulted in our acquiring one of the last LRC diesel-electric locomotives – #6917 – before it and its sister locomotives were scrapped. . On

Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last Sunday, Jay Larkin and I spent the morning unloading the portable simulator which we had taken to the Christmas Train Show to be a part of the TRHA exhibit as reported on in an earlier post. We then reorganized the

Click on each picture for a closer look! . Our winter restoration season is now in full swing with our weekend crews of volunteers hard at work. Here is a report from James Rasor about last Saturday’s efforts: . “We had a great work session this Saturday with many, many

Recently, on the Toronto Railway Heritage Group, Derek Boles responded to a discussion about this famed excursion as follows: . “What made the May 1, 1960 triple-header excursion so memorable for many Toronto-area railfans was that Trains magazine devoted ten pages and a cover to it in their August 1960

Click on each image for a closer look! . A project at the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre that has been ongoing for the past several months was completed in the middle of November, the installation of the historic interpretive plaques throughout Roundhouse Park. The plaques were researched and written by