Click on each image for a closer look! . Sunday also dawned sunny as well. There were lots of people in Roundhouse Park so we had an audience for our planned equipment shuffle this morning using a smaller team of eight volunteers. We started by shuffling the equipment as follows:
Click on each image for a closer look! . Saturday dawned nice and sunny but it was cold with a bit of a breeze all day. Fifteen volunteers turned out to work on many different projects. To give you and idea of the many different tasks that can be dealt
Click on the image for a closer look! . Ever since the CN Tower opened in 1976, a number of rail enthusiasts have used the lofty vantage point to photograph the extensive railway facilities that used to surround the tower. A number of recent books have featured images of Canadian
Click on each image for a closer look! . Only an hour and a half’s drive from Toronto lies Buffalo, New York. Apparently, Buffalo was the USA’s second largest rail center for nearly a century. Based in Buffalo, the Western New York Railway Historical Society has railway equipment and other
Click on each image for a closer look! . Our volunteers are doing an incredible job of documenting the dramatic progress in the evolution of the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre with their avid use of their digital cameras. We all too often take this photographic work for granted as we
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As we hurtle towards our opening weekend in only 8 weeks time, Tom Murison and his crew have also been busy on completing the restoration of Cabin D and Don Station. Here is the status of the work as of last
Click on each image for a closer look! . In our final posting from Jason Pelton’s trip to Vancouver, we feature CPR #374 which is restored and housed in a pavilion attached to the Drake Street Roundhouse. Wikipedia offers the following summary of the engine’s history: . “Engine No. 374
Click on each picture for a closer look! . It truly was a Good Friday at Roundhouse Park as work progressed on several fronts as volunteers applied themselves to the tasks at hand. . At the upper left, we find some visitors talking pictures of #4803 as she sits on
Click on each image for a closer look! . Steam engines needed water towers! In the picture at the left taken by Doug McFadgen in the 1970’s, we see the water tower which was used by the John St. Roundhouse which remains today in its original location beside the roundhouse.
…… Click on each picture for a closer look! . As we have noted in a previous posting, only 6 of the 203 Northerns built for the CNR have survived. We further reported that one of the other surviving locomotives, CNR Northern #6167 Class U-2-e 4-8-4, has been on display