The Toronto Railway Historical Association presents a series of three illustrated lectures by Toronto Railway Museum historian Derek Boles. Each of these fast-moving presentations is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, original animations, maps, diagrams, railway documents, advertising and other ephemera collected over the years by Mr. Boles and combined with
One of our TRHA volunteers, Lance Gleich was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time and captured images of the first revenue run of the new TTC streetcars. In the photos below, we find car #4400 surfacing at Sussex Avenue yesterday on its first run. Lance
The Age of Steam Roundhouse is a massive new development underway in the state of Ohio within a day’s reach of us here in Toronto. We have reported on it several times before. It is not a museum and is not open to the public as it is heavily under
Each year on Labour Day Weekend, I make it a point to visit the Steam Era event held in Milton, Ontario (about an hour west of Toronto) on their fairgrounds. The major draw for me is the magnificent array of machinery that comes to the fair to be operated and
Here is an unusual sighting by a railfan in Northern Ontario. The CP railway hosted the Women’s Open Golf Tournament in London, Ontario which ends on August 24th, 2014. CP brought out their Heritage Train pulled by an A-B-A set of vintage EMD FP7 diesels to journey from Calgary to
Every year, the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) holds an annual convention somewhere in North America. The NMRA is the largest model railroading association in North America. This year, their convention was held in Cleveland, Ohio in mid-July. Since it was an easy day’s drive from Toronto, I and TRHA
The Niagara Division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association has a tradition of an all day event on the Friday nearest to the Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year. Our conviction is that this is the best train spotting day of the year as we have the
One of the leading railfan organizations in the U.S. is the National Railway Historical Society formed in 1935. The NRHS is the largest such group in North America with nearly 13,000 members and over 160 chapters. There is only one Canadian chapter, located in British Columbia and apparently engaged in preservation
New York City’s Grand Central Terminal is one of the world’s great railway stations. Click here to read the Wikipedia entry about its rich history. In that entry, they speak to: “A “secret” sub-basement known as M42 lies under the Terminal, containing the AC to DC converters used to supply
The train board that sometimes hangs on the side of Don Station is actually from the Canadian Pacific Agincourt station, which closed and was demolished in 1978. Using public timetables showing the train numbers and the times, it would appear that the information on the board was in effect from