Click on each picture for a closer look! . Even before work began on converting the John Street roundhouse into the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre, we realized that our high profile location would attract numerous visitors, among whom would be those who actually worked at John Street prior to its
Click on each image for a closer look! . Earlier this week, two military helicopters dropped in very close to the Roundhouse as can be seen in these images. They were there as part of the planning for the G20 Summit to be held on June 26th and June 27th
Click on each 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. Two of today’s items are as follows: . “April 22,
The TRHA has been often asked if they have a guide for the rail fan who plans to visit Toronto and the surrounding area. Derek Boles, our TRHA historian, produced just such a guide a year ago. He has now updated it as a 2010 version. . This 16 page
Click on each picture for a closer look! The TRHA offers tours of Union Station on the last Saturday of each month at 11 a.m. Cost is $10 each payable on arrival for the tour. Reservations are not necessary and those interested should meet by the Traveler’s Aid counter in
Click on each image for a closer look! . We had yet another successful work team effort this past weekend. The last and final track switch was installed on the miniature railway. Some adjustments were made to one of the curves in the miniature railway track to ease up on
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The LRC (Light, Rapid, Comfortable) was a uniquely Canadian passenger locomotive developed by Bombardier, Alcan and Dofasco in co-operation with CN and later VIA Rail Canada as a higher speed rail option for the busy Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. The
Click on each image for a closer look! . Work continued as those volunteers who had the freedom to continue to help out during the week joined us. In the image at hte upper right, we find a small crew working on finishing the miniature railway depot’s trackage. . In
It has come to our attention that we have sufficient news postings in our archives for every month (almost one per day in most cases) that the Google Blogger.com service that we use is simply not capable of providing access to every posting in a given month’s archive. . So
Click on each image for a closer look! . On June 26th, 2009, the massive frame of levers used in Cabin D to control the switches in the Toronto Rail lands were removed from Cabin D and sent away for restoration as captured in this TRHA News item. On Septemebr