Click on the image for a closer look! . Don Loucks, heritage architect with IBI Group, has been awarded the 2009 Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) award for adaptive reuse of a heritage building for his work on the John Street Roundhouse. The award was presented to Loucks at
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As mentioned in earlier TRHA News postings, Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major events in Canadian history that happened on that day of the year. In today’s
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the images at left, our restoration contractor, Tom Murison, has begun replacement of the doors and windows in the coaling tower. These are new-built replicas of the original steel-framed pane windows. . Posting and pictures by Michael Guy http://www.trha.ca
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at the upper left, we see that progress continues on the restoration of Cabin D and it begins to return to its former glory. . The next two pictures above capture a meeting held to discuss the restoration
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . We hope to be able to re-occupy our three museum stalls soon as the renovations get much closer to completion. Contractors have completed installation of a new wooden roof purlin above stall 15 as we see in the picture at
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Modern diesel-electric engines are essentially powered by very large diesel motors driving a massive generator. This power plant provides electrical power on demand as needed by the locomotive to pull a train. The electric motors which drive the engine are an
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Norm Betts, the professional photographer who has been documenting the development of Roundhouse Park in photos, has sent this great panoramic shot of Roundhouse Park now that the laying of the sod has pretty much been completed and with it the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the picture at the upper left, we see that the chimney on the tool shed has now been rebuilt while construction continues on Cabin D behind it. In the other two pictures above, the scaffolding used to allow the workmen
Click on each picture for a closer look! . With the mainline track pretty much complete except for a few crossings and switches, our TRHA crews have been working steadily for the past week to complete the wye which connects the mainline tracks to the miniature railway’s turntable and train
Click on each picture for a closer look! . While work continues on restoration of the structures in Roundhouse Park, the work on the reconstruction of the grounds is rapidly coming to completion. In these current pictures, we see that the laying of sod is quickly being completed. . Posting