Click on each image for a closer look! If you are like myself, you have done many jigsaw puzzles in the past. Well, now you can work on jig saw puzzles featuring scenes in Roundhouse Park – now and in the past. Larry Fisher is a renowned artist who has
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Southern Ontario was once criss-crossed with electric interurban railways in various forms which knit the communities together in an era of very poor roads. Andy Panko of the Niagara Division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association has brought our attention to an intriguing 2 1/2 minute video of a trip
Click on each image for a closer look! The evening of Saturday, January 7th, 2012 found many of our TRHA volunteers attending a party at Mother Tucker’s Marketplace in Etobicoke, Ontario. The event celebrated the tremendous contributions of the dozens and dozens of volunteers whose contributions have been essential to
Click on each image for a closer look! As we reported recently, Michael and I visited the Niagara Railway Museum in Fort Erie just before Christmas. On Friday, January 6th, Michael, Rodney and myself made a field trip back to the museum with our trailers in tow. The objective was
Click on each image for a closer look! One of the valued and restored artifacts at the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre, and the smallest of the four structures in the railway village, is the watchmen’s shanty, which is now mounted on a permanent foundation just a few yards northwest of
Click on each image for a closer look! On December 31st, Michael Guy and I visited the Ontario Steam Heritage Museum in Puslinch, Ontario just north of Hamilton. They have a wonderful collection of huge steam tractors, many of which are fully operational. This was the occasion of the end
Click on each image for a closer look! On Saturday, December 18th, Michael Guy and Russ Milland responded to an invitation from the Niagara Railway Museum in Fort Erie, Ontario to join them for their Christmas lunch event for their members and volunteers. I had visited them a number of
Click on each image for a closer look! It was cold night for some and for others a night to celebrate the new year. With that in mind a group of TRHA volunteers braved the elements and took part in an excursion aboard a GO train, taking time to sight
“A beautiful Tuesday morning on December 27th dawned with a good 3 to 4 inches of new snow. I took out the snow blower and being alone, I pushed it around the layout to clear the tracks. My friend Claude St Laurent arrived and we then took out the club
Click on each image for a closer look! On our final day in the UK, we took the opportunity to visit one of the newest museums, the Glasgow Riverside Museum, which opened earlier this year. The Museum is the new home of the collection of the Glasgow Museum of Transport,