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:.“December 1, 1903:.The feature film “The Great Train Robbery,” produced by the Edison
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last weekend, the TRHA team of volunteers once again adressed numerous tasks remaining in the development of the miniature railway. Highlighted above is the equipping of the crossing signal with what are called “crossbucks” which are lettered to warn of the
Click on each picture for a closer look!. . Continuing their tradition of operating Holiday Trains which visit communities throughout the CP railway system, the CP announces the following at their webiste: . “The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train hits the rails again this November, visiting over 130 communities in eight
Some of you have asked whether our Pyke crane is operational. It is in fact operational except for one problem with the slew motion drive that we intend to fix. Below you will find a video of the TRHA and the Toronto Terminal Railways staff testing the crane last winter
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture series shown here, we find a typical small railway crane. This one belongs to the Toronto Terminal Railways (TTR) who are responsible for the maintenance of the rail corridor in downtown Toronto. It is now surplus to their
Click on each image for a closer look! . In this final chapter of our report on the Christmas Train Show, we will highlight a number of exhibits which may be of interest to our readers as follows: #1: At this booth, Jon Hull, Tom Landers and Russ Milland of
Click on each image for a closer look! . Our Sweet Creek locomotive was appropriately displayed in the display area hosted by the Golden Horseshoe Live Steamers (GHLS), one of the three miniature railway clubs in the Toronto area. Our locomotive was assembled and tested by a team of miniature
Click on each image for a closer look! . As mentioned in our last posting, our Sweet Creek locomotive was displayed at the Christmas Train Show just across the aisle from our TRHA booth. Michael Guy, Arno Martens and Mike Salisbury of the TRHA participated in numerous discussions with visitors
Click on each image for a closer look! . Many of us TRHA folk were busy this past weekend manning the TRHA booth and otherwise participating in the Christmas Train Show as described in an earlier posting. Saturday was quite a busy day with a good number of visitors while
Next TRHA Union Station Tour on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 . 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