A new Chinese train innovation – How to get on & off a bullet train without stopping. .“No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. There are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, so just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The past year has been a year of great progress. Thank you to all of you folks out there who have made a point of telling us how impressed you have been with the speed at which we have developed the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Over the years I’ve accumulated thousands of historical images of railways from a number of different sources. When I became involved with the TRHA in 2001, I started collecting in earnest images that helped tell the story of Toronto’s railways. Recently
Click on each image for a closer look! . All railways have the occasional derailment. It is a fact of life for flanged wheels on steel rail that occasionally the best laid plans come to naught and the wheels hit the ballast. It is not so much a matter of
Click on each image for a closer look! . Saturday Report . It was a very busy day on Saturday. We had another record turnout of 20 volunteers. Projects addressed included: A start on the red exterior paint on the van Much interior work done on the caboose and the
Click on each image for a closer look! . The U33C Cab which we acquired is based on the Delaware and Hudson U33C #757 shown in the picture above. We intend to finish the cab in the same colour scheme in due course. . At the below left, we see
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the 1940’s and 1950’s, Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) developed a commanding share of the diesel locomotive marketplace in North America. General Electric’s “GE Rail” (now their Transportation Division) did produce locomotives for export but wanted a much bigger piece of the North
Click on each image for a closer look! . Dictionary.com defines “panopoly” as a “splendid or impressive array” and our panopoly of projects is just that! Work continued on many fronts this week as we addressed the need to fine tune the ballast around the miniature railway track and complete
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Thanks to a baker’s dozen of volunteers (that is 13 of them!) forming our work team last Saturday, we successfully tackled our usual wide array of projects. In this week’s report, we will provide more details than usual to give you
Click on each image for a closer look! . Last Friday, a team of TRHA specialists in the art of running a miniature railway steamed up our Sweet Creek locomotive and took it out on the track for a first trial run on our home steel. Other than some predictable