Click on each image for a closer look! . This weekend was the last of the season for the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre. Sunday was a chilly day in Roundhouse Park and we even saw snow falling as captured in the picture of Cabin D at the upper left. Despite
Click on each image for a closer look! . As we move into our winter projects season, one of our priorities was the cleaning up of the machine shop area to allow us to use more of that space for upcoming projects. . Saturday, Jim, myself, and Bob spent the
Click on each image for a closer look! The Maritime Railway was a 12 mile steam powered line which operated in Nova Scotia from 1887 until 1961. The line ran between the coal mines in Joggins and the Inter Colonial Railway (IRC) mainline at Maccan. The line began operation as
Click on the image for a closer look! . A number of us have visited Exporail (as reported here) which can legitimately lay claim to being Canada’s National Railway Museum. Last summer I visited the site of this monumental event in Canada’s history as documented in this TRHA News Blog
Click on each image for a closer look! . The past few weeks at Roundhouse Park have been very colourful as the leaves respond to the cooling temperatures. Last Saturday, James Rasor made a special effort to capture the fall colours as our miniature railway train ran through the park’s
Click on each image for a closer look! . It was an agreeable day with no rain to dampen proceedings but it was cold and damp enough that our steam engines made spectacular steam effects all day as we can see in these photos. The reassembled smaller steam engine, the
Click on each image for a closer look! . Today was quite cool and cloudy but thanks to a series of Wiggles concerts durign the day for the wee folk at the Rogers Centre, there was steady visitor traffic all afternoon which kept the miniature railway busy. Meanwhile, inside the
Click on each image for a closer look! . Above, we have a scene captured by TRHA volunteer Lance Gleich from earlier in the summer when it was warm enough for shorts to be worn! A weekend miniature railway crew wipes down TRHA locomotive #3 after a day’s duty of
Click on each image for a closer look! . “Back on February 20, 1985, I had the opportunity to visit the old CPR John Street Roundhouse near downtown Toronto. While Canadian National’s/VIA Spadina Avenue Roundhouse received more notoriety, John Street was an awesome place to visit. CP maintained a small
Click on each image for a closer look! . Don Station is receiving a number of final touches to complete its restoration. John Mellow reports on recent changes as follows: . “Don station has received new moulding around the waiting room side of the the ticket counter. Based on the