I subscribe to an online service called Trainmaster TV.  They publish videos on many different railway themed topics such as model railroading and railfanning. In the Niagara Region of Ontario, there is an extraordinarily talented model railroader, Lex Parker, who has produced an exquisite model railroad in On3 gauge which

We are out growing the storage available in our Miniature Railway Depot so we are adding a storage facility right beside the current building.  We will be using a commercial 40″ diameter culvert to house some of our passenger cars with a track inside it. In the pictures below,  we

As we learned from our successful but time consuming work in restoring the TH&B Caboose, restoration can be a long arduous task.  Dan Cheer, one of our restoration crew volunteers, sends us the photos below which show the deterioration in the Cape Race passenger car’s vestibule floor plates which dropped

Continuing with our coverage of the Rail Safety Day event at Roundhouse Park on July 19th, we bring you some photos of Metrolinx’s Flexity LRT mockup which was open for visits all day. This vehicle is being built by Bombardier for the TTC to operate on the new Eglinton Crosstown

On July 19th, Roundhouse Park hosted a Rail safety Day event which featured: Safety demonstrations A GO Transit bus Metrolinx’s mockup of the new Flexity LRT A scavenger hunt for the “kids” with lots of prizes, including a boys and a girls bike The Stall 17 museum artifact display The

Various task are constantly being worked on by volunteers at the Toronto Railway Museum.  On July 15th, Michael Guy worked on a number of them and here is part of his report on that day’s activities: “The second half of the day was spent on the Hobart welder engine. This

Metrolinx LRT The Toronto Railway Museum in association with  GO Transit Metrolinx UP Express Bombardier VIA Rail CN Police Operation Lifesaver Toronto Fire Service Toronto Police Services Ministry of Transport Ontario Transport Canada is proud to present the 1st Annual Rail Safety Day in Roundhouse Park this Staurday, July 19th. 

This is the HCRR’s 60th anniversary year and they have a special celebration this Saturday, July 19th.   There will be lots to do and see, including a Community Fair featuring local vendors; opening ceremonies featuring Mayor Gordon Krantz, Mayor of Milton; unlimited streetcar rides and more. The HCRR advises

On July 4th, 2014, , Exporail, Canada’s National Railway Museum on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River across from Montreal, announced the donation by the CN of a fully operational yard diesel.  This donation  provides Exporail with an additional engine to be used to move equipment in their

Heritage Toronto recently unveiled two new historic plaques at the south end of the Don River, one commemorating the Grand Trunk railway bridge and the other the straightening of the Don River in the 1880s-90s. The latter was done mostly at the behest of the railways, particularly the Canadian Pacific,