Click on each image for a closer look! The following day, August 4, I rode various commuter trains around the Philadelphia area. In my opinion Philadelphia is the most interesting city in North America to experience a wide variety of rail passenger transportation and mass transit. I had ridden most
Click on each image for a closer look! . A recent vacation in July of 2010 to visit a friend in the Philadelphia area provided an opportunity to see much of railroad interest. Unfortunately an Amtrak trip to Philly from Toronto was not in the cards since it’s impossible to
Click on each image for a closer look! . We mentioned in an earlier Field Trip Report that the young lad in the famous picture shown here of the driving of the last spike at Craigellachie, B.C. would be the feature of a future post. . Ray Argyle has written
Click on the image 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: . “August 26,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . There are a lot of amateur and professional photographers who love taking pictures of trains and everything related to trains. As you may seen in many of the pictures that the photographers among our TRHA volunteers have been taking, our site
Click on each image for a closer look! . This past weekend saw steady visitor traffic despite rain showers on both Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday we operated the miniature railway until 6:00 p.m. to accommodate late afternoon visitors. On Saturday morning a TRHA volunteer work crew addressed a number
Click on each image for a closer look! . Canadian Railway Observations was founded in 1989 and now has 7,000 readers world wide and many more on Facebook. It focuses on capturing railway events as they happen in Canada but also includes historical information. Their monthly publication is available at
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The Canadian Railway Historical Association headquartered in Montreal at Exporail, is a national organization with local chapters throughout Canada. The CRHA Niagara division has been an active chapter of the CRHA for many decades. Their most popular activity is railfanning, a
The Guiness World Book of records has an entry for the world’s longest train. On June 12th, 2001 a train travelled from an Australian mine for 275 kilometres (172 miles) from Newman to Port Hedland, Australia carrying iron ore. It had eight GE AC6000 diesel electric engines distributed along a
Click on each image for a closer look! . Last Saturday, before we opened at our normal hour of high noon, we trained several more volunteers in the operation of our full size simulator in our General Electric U33C Diesel cab. The volunteers then took shifts in interacting with visitors