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. One of today’s items is as follows: . “January 24,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In an earlier News Posting we introduced you to the O. Winston Link museum in Roanoke, Virginia. In this posting we focus on O. Winston Link’s work and how he produced these spectacular images. . The museum displays at any given
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As part of TRHA’s efforts to properly equip the Roundhouse workshops we were able to take advantage this week of an offer to acquire a used but very serviceable Anayak vertical milling machine. These photos show its being loaded onto a
Destiny Tours of Guelph, Ontario have, since September of 2008, been operating the “Guelph Junction Express” dinner trains from Guelph to Campbellville, Ontario on the Guelph Junction Railway which is owned by the City of Guelph. Our earlier report on this railway and the dinner train operation can be found
Click on each image for a closer look! . One of my favourite books is called the “Victorian Internet” which was written by Tom Standage. Here is an excerpt from the author’s website about this book: “In the nineteenth century there were no televisions, aeroplanes, computers, or spacecraft; neither were
Click on each picture for a closer look! . For a January day, Saturday turned out bright and sunny and felt like it was at least 18 degrees C. We had a great turnout of volunteers and much was accomplished. Now that we have finished our track construction, we undertook
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Even pictures taken yesterday can be considered historic images. We are fortunate that Norm Betts was hired by State Developments, the developer in charge of the development and management of the Roundhouse property, to chronicle the renovation of the roundhouse in
Click on each image for a closer look! . In a recent news item, I reported on my visit to the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Within a few blocks of that museum exists a relatively new museum devoted to chronicling the life of O. Winston Link and displaying much of
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Despite the nippy -14 degrees Celsius temperatures on Saturday morning, our TRHA folks turned out in force to continue work on a number of projects. One team left to visit a number of possible sources in search of a new radiator
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In an earlier posting called Roundhouse Park from Above! – Part 1 of 2: Googling It! we introduced you to the Google Maps’ satellite view of the Roundhouse Park. Google Map has recently updated their aerial view of the Roundhouse Park