The Internet is a great source of historic railroad information. Featured in this post is a YouTube-resident movie produced by the New York Central to introduce the public (and perhaps new railroad employees) to the technolgoy and concepts behind railroad signalling. Included is a discussion of the use of interlocking
In our continuing effort to refine our miniature railway trackage to not only accomodate our trains but those of visiting engines and train sets, we mounted a video camera on a passenger car in order to be able to watch one of the wheelsets as it traversed our trackage. While
Click on each image for a closer look! . Last Sunday, while a small crew of volunteers continued to operate the miniature railway, Derek Boles, our TRHA historian, delivered an training sesson for our volunteers in Steam Whistle Brewing’s newly developed meeting and reception facility on the second floor of
Click on each picture for a closer look! . While our focus has shifted somewhat from museum development to operating the museum on weekends, our TRHA volunteers continue to further refine and develop Roundhouse Park. In the pictures above, the roundhouse’s compressor tanks have been repositioned with one being beside
Click on each image for a closer look! . As we can see from the pictues above, we had another great operating weekend despite the threat of some serious inclement weather which didn’t arive until late Saturday afternoon and cleared up by mid-day Sunday. A somewhat soaked Roundhouse Park is
Click on each picture for a closer look! . On May the 18th, 2010, we announced the “Save the LRC” Campaign. We are now in our final push to raise $14,000 in the next two weeks as we must complete the purchase from VIA Rail Canada
Click on each picture for a closer look! . While News postings here have been absent for the past two weeks as your “news blogmaster” has been on vacation deep in the wilderness of the interior of British Columbia, operations have continued for the past few weekends much to the
Click on each image for a closer look! . As Derek Boles, our TRHA historian, has posted earlier, the rededication of the memorial to the Chinese workers who worked on the building of the CPR was held on Canada Day. In his capacity as a Heritage Toronto Board member, TRHA
Click on each image for a closer look! . In today’s posting, we offer more images from Canada Day at the museum. . As can be seen above, both the Sweet Creek and the Whitcomb were pressed into service on the miniature railway that day to handle the crowds. Below,
Click on each image for a closer look! . Despite the recent diversion of many of our volunteers to the operational needs of the museum, we also got some work done on our museum “assets” between July 1st and 4th. . The crossing gates are back in place as is