Walt Disney was a very serious miniature railway enthusiast and was very active in the hobby, especially live steam railroading well before he developed and built Disneyland. He had a circle of close friends who were into live steam, many of whom also worked at the Disney studios. Disney built,

Image from TTC’s Website On Wednesday, June 11th, the TTC held a sneak preview ride for members of the news media and specially-invited guests aboard new Bombardier “Flexity Outlook” No. 4401. Among the guests were TRHA’s Richard White and me . About 75 people rode No. 4401 on a short

The Komoka Railway Museum is also the home of a miniature railway.  Unlike our ground level 7 1/4″ gauge railway, this railway is 3 1/2″ and 4 3/4″ (dual) gauge and is on a raised steel structure as you can see in the photos below and the video above. Ed

Komoka Station and Museum I recently visited the Komoka Railway Museum which is just outside London, Ontario, Canada. Part of the Museum is housed in the former Canadian National Railway station in Komoka, Ontario. In 1978, the building was moved to a location north of the CNR tracks and adjacent

  Thanks to a generous donation from CN the Alberta Railway Museum (in Edmonton, Alberta) has recently received CN #1179 which was originally constructed for the Northern Alberta Railways (NAR) and numbered NAR #302.  More importantly, #302  was named after Chief Moostoos, the First Nations Chief who signed Treaty #8, the last treaty

In the past few months, VIA Rail Canada offered the Museum the donation of an old electrically powered baggage cart which formerly operated on the Union Station platforms. As shown in the picture below, we brought one of these back to the Museum. A fleet of these “green baggage carts”

Spurred by the Lac Megantic disaster and the ensuing controversy over the safe transport of crude oil by rail, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) have continued to play a strong role in working with the Federal Government in the area of Rail Safety Safety as described on their website. 

We occasionally feature local model railroad clubs, especially when they have open house events giving  us the opportunity to visit and enjoy them. The Burlington Model Railroad Club (BCMR) is holding just such an event this weekend, Saturday, June 7th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Here is what they

We have had several photo shoots at our museum.  Recently, Jeff Green led a cast of 20 folks in authentic period costumes from the middle of the last century in a photo shoot in the railway gallery of the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Below are