Click on each picture for a closer look! . Here are a selection of pictures taken on June 2nd, 2009 capturing a number of views of Roundhouse Park activity. . In the picture at the upper left, we see that the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre “main line” now extends from
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The soon to be restored lever tower Cabin D is seen in the left hand photo beside the newly ballasted track reaching out to the corner of Roundhouse Park. Cabin D has now been stabilized with internal cross-bracing. The imminent restoration
Click on each picture for a closer look! . 6213’s tender was successfully moved last night. It moved through the Princes’ Gate at about 1:50 a.m. and arrived at the roundhouse on schedule at about 02:45 a.m. After that things got a little slow and we did not have it
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Here is some fast breaking news! 6213’s tender will be moved overnight tonight (Wednesday midnight into the wee hours of Thursday) to Roundhouse Park. We expect that the move will begin around midnight from the CNE grounds. The tender will be
Click on each image for a closer look! . Last weekend, TRHA volunteers continued to work within the roundhouse. . Space was cleared for the artefacts belonging to #6213 which will be arriving shortly with the locomotive. We also moved a lot of miniature rail stock from stall 15 to
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The pictures above were taken on Doors Open weekend. They show restoration underway on the tool shed that orginally sat beside Cabin D when it resided just west of the Bathurst Street bridge. As you can see this was a substantial
Click on each picture for a closer look! . As reported earlier, the Diaspora Dialogues presented some fiction and poetry readings as well as several dramatic presentations in the east end of the Great Hall. The Diaspora presentations were thematically linked with Union Station or people in transit. . In
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last Tuesday (May 26, 2009) at 10:15 in the morning, our CNR Northern 4-8-4 steam locomotive #6213 moved for the first time since 1960. I conspired to be in the cab at the time and can say that there was not
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The longest radial track in Roundhouse Park will stretch from the turntable to the north-east corner of Roundhouse Park. In the picture at the upper left, we find an excavator working on the excavation of the roadbed for this radial track.
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Last weekend’s Doors Open 2009 event at Union Station was another tremendous success, made even more successful this year by the participation of GO Transit and the added dimension of the Diaspora Dialogues. . The information table in the Great Hall