Click on each image for a closer look! . This weekend continued to attract streams of visitors to Roundhouse Park. . In addition to the miniature train rides, we hosted tours of #6213 and also taught visitors how to operate our full size diesel simulator (the subject of our next
Click on each image for a closer look! . The two historic images of Cabin D shown here were brought to our attention by readers of this blog. The first image at the left from the City of Toronto Archives shows the top half of Cabin D being lifted after
In the video below, we experience riding behind the Sweet Creek Steam Locomotive at the Roundhouse Park Miniature Railway!.Posting & Movie by Michael Guy.Click on the video below to view it! .. http://www.trha.ca
Click on each image for a closer look! . Our new hours were popular with visitors and resulted in our running the miniature railway until 6:00 p.m. one day this weekend due to popular demand. . In the middle picture above, we find John Mellow taking care of business in
Click on the image for a closer look! . Lance Gleich took this photo of Don Station on a quiet day without any crowds in Roundhouse Park and we thought that our readers would enjoy this portrait of the station as restored and in repose. . For more information about
Click on the image for a closer look! . Wood Design and Building Magazine is a high quality magazine published quarterly by the Wood Council of Canada. In their Winter 2009-2010 issue they included an article about the restoration of the John St. Roundhouse. Their article documents the history of
Click on the image for a closer look! . While much of our focus on weekends is the staffing of the museum operation, our volunteers are still making time for further development of our facilities. Last weekend was no exception. . In these pictures we find a TRHA crew trenching
Click on each image for a closer look! . The long holiday weekend was a great success with large number of visitors beign drawn to Roundhouse Park. The crowds enjoyed the miniature train rides, the turntable rides, touring the cabs of #6213 and #4803 as well as visiting the interior
Click on each image for a closer look! . Last Saturday, we hosted two groups of railway enthusiasts who appropriately arrived by train in Union Station. CRHA Niagara is the division of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association (CRHA) covering the Niagara Region. They arrived on the first GO train of
Click on each image for a closer look! . This past Saturday, we decided to open the cabs on both CN steam engine #6213 and on our CN diesel #4803 as shown in the accompanying pictures . In the picture at the right below we also find a visitor in