Click on each picture for a closer look! . This year there was only one regularly scheduled steam-powered passenger train operation in Ontario. The Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway was closed this year to allow for construction of facilities for the G8 Summit in June of 2010. The South
Click on each picture for a closer look! . CP #7020 is a Class DS10-b locomotive and carries serial #72855. It has been preserved as part of the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre collection. In the picture at the upper left taken by Lance Gleich in July of 2009, #7020 is
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Here is James Rasor’s take on today’s work party session: . “It was a good work party today. While some of the members were at the Simcoe County Museum’s Last Blast, a small team stayed and did some much needed maintenance
Next TRHA Union Station Tour on Saturday, October 31st, 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
Click on each picture for a closer look! . This coming Saturday, October 17th, the Simcoe County Museum (just North of Barrie, Ontario) and the Historical Construction Equipment Association of Canada (HCEA) presents their last event of the year – The Last Blast. The HCEA is “dedicated to the preservation
Click on each picture for a closer look! . This pair of pictures dramatically show the changes at the John St. Roundhouse and in the city skyline over the past 38 years. The picture on the right was taken by James Rasor a few days ago. . The picture at
Click on each picture for a closer look! . TRHA crews have been steadily laying track towards the new miniature railway turntable and trainshed for the past week. In the photos above, we see that as of Saturday afternoon, they had made great progress laying the “ramp” leading to the
Click on each image for a closer look! . We open this posting with a great shot of #4803 against the city skyline by Lance Gleich. . This weekend’s work crew addressed the many different tasks involved in the completion of the crossing of the mainline by the miniature railway
Click on each for a closer look! . At the upper left, we see the view greeting our work crews as they made further progress on the installation of the switches for the miniature railway at Roundhouse park. Our TRHA crews were also able to complete the bit of ‘Y’
Click on each image for a closer look! . Continuing on our theme of “Roundhouse Park from Above”, we now turn to Microsoft’s Bing Maps service (formerly Windows Live Maps). To see these images online and others at Bing Maps, click here or enter the address of Roundhouse Park –