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,
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Click on each picture for a closer look! . This week TRHA acquired a platform scissor lift for use in the miniature railway depot building. In photo #1 we see (me!) unloading it from a delivery truck. Photos #2 and #3 show it being placed inside the depot door onto
Click on the video above to relive a ride around the miniature railway track after dark on Thanksgiving Day evening. In our last post, we described the circumstances behind our choosing to run in the dark that evening..To return to the first part of this series of postings, click here!.Posting
Click on each image for a closer look! . As mentioned in our prior post, we decided to run into the night on Thanksgiving day to experiment with night time operation with an eye to having a special Halloween Eve operation at the end of October. This provided two of
Click on each picture for a closer look! . We continued to have a great weekend as Sunday and Thanksgiving Monday unfolded. As Michael Guy reports: “We had a very nice fall weather Thanksgiving day today, nippy in the breeze but very nice when the sun came out. Lots of
Click on each image for a closer look! . This weekend was a distinct improvement on last weekend’s cold and rainy conditions. We had a fine turnout of visitors and had most of our attractions in operation at one point or another. . In the images from Saturday accompanying this
Click on each image for a closer look! . In previous postings, we have visited a number of miniature railway clubs in Canada. The Quebec Model Railroad Society (QRMS) operates a miniature railway in Saint-Foy, a part of Quebec City. They also have N gauge and HO gauge indoor layouts
Click on each image for a closer look! . Inspired by our recent night shoot at the Roundhouse Park, I decided to share here two night photographs by Gary Knapp. Gary carries on the tradition of shooting railway photographs at night using powerful flash equipment as made famous by O.
Click on each image for a closer look! . There are only a few regularly scheduled steam train services in Canada. One of the most unusual is the Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield Steam Train operating out of Hull in Quebec. Is has been running since the early 1990’s almost without interruption except for
Click on each image for a closer look! . Donations of artefacts and documents have played a big role in growing our museum. Today, we are pleased to announce the donation by Richard Eastman of Fonthill, Ontario of a pair of passenger car step stools as shown in the attached