Click on each image for a closer look! . With Canada Day being on a Thursday this year, we decided to open the museum on July 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. . Thursday July 1st . We had fine crowds on Canada’s birthday and had a great turnout of volunteers
Click on each image for a closer look! . Completing our coverage of the helicopter activity at Roundhouse Park just before the G20 Summit, we present these photographs taken by folks in the immediate surrounding area. The picture at the above left and middle are by Neil Jones. The picture
Click on each image for a closer look! . Continuing our coverage of the helicopter activity at Roundhouse Park just before the G20 Summit, these photos by Ryan De Laplante from his nearby condominium show test flights being made just prior to the event. The Marine helicopter with a white
Click on each image for a closer look! . On the opposite side of the Rogers Centre from the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre is the Chinese Railway Workers Memorial, located in a parkette where Blue Jays Way curves off to the west towards Spadina Avenue. In the 1880’s, contractors building
Click on each image for a closer look! . In an earlier TRHA News posting, we visited the Fort Erie Railway Museum which houses a preserved railway station as well as CNR Northern #6218, a sister locomotive to our #6213. . Today, we are bringing to your attention a new
As we have announced earlier, Roundhouse Park became a heliport for the G20 Summit event in downtown Toronto with helicopters landing and leaving last week for practice pruposes. In this series of postings, we capture for posterity this highly unusual activity which will be yet another milestone in the museum’s
Click on each image for a closer look! . 10 years ago, Mike Robin, an avid railroad photographer who lives and works in northern Ontario began sharing his “Picture of the Day” with those of us who are entranced by the Ontario Northland Railway, owned by we, the citizens of
Click on each image for a closer look! . In today’s posting we feature pictures of our Sweet Creek steam locomotive in action pulling passengers this weekend. This oil-fired locomotive operates just like full size steam locomotives burning diesel fuel to generate steam. Operating such a locomotive requires much training
Click on each image for a closer look! . As advertised, we again hosted the public on Saturday and Sunday with hundreds of visitors turning out on a fine Father’s Day weekend. The images above here show the TRHA booth set up to welcome visitors and sell tickets, the turntable
Click on each image for a closer look! . In order to provide a safe area for large helicopters to land in the middle of Roundhouse Park, it was necessary to move the crossing shanty out of harm’s way. Tom Murison reports on the undertaking as follows: “McCulloch brought a