As everyone who attended our Doors Open weekend event could see, our TH&B caboose has been magnificently restored by our crews of volunteers. Below we find a great set of photos of the interior as it neared completion before the event. Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by David Fleming Click
Click on each image for a closer look at images from the book! Thomas Blampied is one of our TRHA volunteers. We asked Thomas to give us some background information on his production of his latest book on railroads in the Toronto area. He said: “When I published Rails of
Click on each image for a closer look! . A team of people, led my myself, developed the Toronto Rail Lands Simulation as a TRHA project a few years ago. That simulation has been operated by thousands of people around the world as it has been packaged with the last
Click on each image for a closer look! . A team of volunteers has continued to work at removing valuable parts from LRC #6919 to be used in the restoration of LRC #6917 acquired by the TRHA. . They were joined by volunteers from the Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society (SOLRS)
Click on each image for a closer look! . With the acquisition of the Walmsley collection earlier this year, our collection of speeders (also known as railway motorcars) has grown significantly. This past weekend, we began the process of cleaning up the machine shop. In the process of doing so,
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Despite forecasts of a rainy day, our work party had sun all morning and it didn’t rain until after they were finished. . As we see in the pictures above, the major project was the installation of the crossing signal mast
Click on each picture for a closer look! . One item that was missing from our CNR Northern 4-8-4 #6213 steam locomotive was the number plate worn by such locomotives just below their headlights. A replica of the original number plate has been built and in the picture at the
Click on the picture for a closer look! . This photo shows the rail carts that we built over the last winters under the teams guided by Dave Wetherald. Each of these were built on an original speeder trailer chassis. All three carts are being used to move our equipment
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The challenge was to remove the newly build passenger car (built on a speeder trailer) from the Machine Shop to be stored with the rest of our rolling stock on our standard gauge track system. The car barely fit through the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . The Toronto Locomotive Preservation Society (TLPS) have been caring for #6213 since she was donated to the City of Toronto by the CNR. They reported today that locomotive #6213’s tender was successfully separated and moved a few inches away from the