Click on each image for a closer look! . Bob Dickson of the TRHA has provided us with the letter below which was submitted to and published in the Canadian Railway Historical Association’s newsletter. It was written by his great uncle James Dickson (as pictured at upper left). It describes
Click on each image for a closer look! . Today, we are posting additional images from the Milton Steam Era festival. At the upper left, we find a graden tractor modified to be driven by four gas engines. It is likely that this was built to compete in the popular
Click on each picture for a closer look!.Continuing on our search for steam at the Milton Steam Era show, we find at the upper left a steam tractor put to good use pulling a trailer load of passengers around the grounds. In the middle picture above, we find a large
Click on each picture for a closer look!.In this news posting, we find Michael Guy and Jon Hull at the Milton Steam Era festival operating a massive Sawyer-Massey steam tractor owned by the Ontario Steam Heritage Museum in Puslinch, Ontario. As you can see from the pictures, these massive tractors
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Many steam locomotives such as our CNR 4-8-4 Northern #6213 survived the end of the steam era on our railways. A few of the survivors have been restored into operating condition. Many of these survivors have been put on display in
Click on each picture for a closer look!.Occassionally we post news of interest from beyond our immediate area. Here is one news worthy item of interest to those of us who are ardent fans of steam driven vehicles such as our #6213 and our Sweet Creek locomotives..Edward’s Air Force Base,
Click on the pictures for a closer look! . . Steam-Era is the annual show produced by the “Ontario Steam & Antique Preservers Association” held at the Milton fairgrounds in in the heart of Milton, Ontario, Canada just south of their main street every Labour Day weekend. Their members are
Click on each picture for a closer look! . On August 19th, I was fortunate enough to visit the Canadian Railway Museum – Exporail. The museum grounds sit on two municipalities, Saint-Constant and Delson, Quebec, that are on the south shore of the St. Lawrence and only a short drive
Click on each picture for a closer look! . We lead off today’s news post with a picture of a “track waiting for a train” at the left above. In the other two pictures, we see that work has begun on the erection of the walls for our miniature railway’s
Click on each picture for a closer look! . It was another busy weekend at the Roundhouse as TRHA crews worked on several projects. As seen in the pictures with this posting, continuing the construction of the miniature railway switches was one priority and all except one of the six