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: . “September 8,
Click on each image for a closer look! Most of Derek Bole’s report has been serialized in the previous 6 postings. In his full report, Derek has included many more images of the Buffalo Central Station (especially the interior) and other points of interest in the Buffalo area. Some of
Click on each image for a closer look! As we came to the end of our trip, we visited Fellheimer & Wagner’s 1933 Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo station, now the Hamilton GO Centre. F&W used the Art Deco architectural style which came into vogue in the late 1920s. Unfortunately few
Click on each image for a closer look! The highlight of the trip was a tour of the Buffalo Central Terminal, opened by the New York Central Railroad in 1929 and abandoned by Amtrak in 1979. BCT was familiar to many Torontonians, who changed trains there to reach various destinations
Click on each image for a closer look! A day-long drive north from Altoona brought us to Buffalo, New York, once the second busiest railroad center in the United States after Chicago. In 1927 there were 13 different railroads serving Buffalo, including the CPR, CNR, Grand Trunk and TH&B. All
Click on the pictures for a closer look! . . Steam-Era is the annual show produced by the “Ontario Steam & Antique Preservers Association” held at the Milton fairgrounds in in the heart of Milton, Ontario, Canada just south of their main street every Labour Day weekend. Their members are
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Continuing with our weekend coverage, we are posting more pictures of the “steam punk” group from FANEXO as described in our last TRHA news posting. . Posting by Russ Milland, Pictures by Lance Gleich . http://www.trha.ca
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Hosting conventions where devoted fans of science fiction, comic books, horror films, game heroes and anime turn out to show off their spectacular costumes, participate in workshops, buy from 100’s of vendors and meet stars in their gendres is a big
Click on each image for a closer look! . We had another fine weekend at the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre with a steady stream of visitors all weekend long. Our volunteers did a terrific job despite the City declaring an “extreme heat alert” as temperatures reached the low 30’s Celsius
Click on the image for a closer look! Following Strasburg was an early evening visit to Altoona, where we discovered that Horseshoe Curve is now completely shut down for visitor access after 5PM. The staircase is closed off and you’re not even allowed to park anywhere near the place! We