Click on each image for a closer look! . In a news posting earlier this fall, we announced that on Saturday, October 17th, the Simcoe County Museum (just North of Barrie, Ontario) and the Historical Construction Equipment Association of Canada (HCEA) were presenting their last event of the year –
Click on each image for a closer look! . Earlier this week, the electricians working on the miniature railway depot building installed the mains transformer and the fume extractor fan (see image at upper left). In the spirit of reuse and recycle, we are using an older floor-model type transformer
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The roundhouse has been fitted for many years with powered fan-type “Robertson” ventilators. Most of these are no longer used and are blanked off. But the museum stalls 15 and 17 will retain working units of this type. The ventilator above
Click on each image for a closer look! . In the Toronto area, there is only one major Train Show annually and it is held at the end of November at the International Centre across from Toronto’s International Airport. . The TRHA will once again be present with our booth
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at the upper left (courtesy of the Toronto Public Library) , we see Don Station as it was in 1910 at the corner of the Don River and Queen Street. Tom Murison reports further on weekend progress on
Click on each image for a closer look! . All together we had a great weekend with good weather, a little sunshine, lots of help and plenty accomplished. . Five volunteers turned out on Saturday. We especially welcome Brian (see picture at upper left) who took the train in from
Click on each image for a closer look! . In today’s posting we feature a panoramic photo of Roundhouse Park from the roof of the Roundhouse by Stephen Gardiner. In this shot, it is clear that some of the radial tracks for the storage of our railway engines are ballasted
Click on each picture for a closer look! . On my recent vacation, I visited the the Strasburg Rail Road , one of the finest Heritage Railways in North America. The original railway was founded in 1832 and the earliest timetable found to date indicates that Strasburg trains were scheduled
Click on each picture for a closer look! . We reached another milestone today in the developmentof the miniature railway in Roundhouse Park with the pouring of the final segment of the track which is to be embedded in concrete. In the pictures, we witness the pour as it happens
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Tom Murison reports on ongoing progress on the restoration of Don Station: . “We have the purlins on the west and south side located and have cut the north and east sides. The curved purlin has been rebuilt and will go