Click on each image for a closer look! One of our ambitions in Roundhouse Park is to establish a telegraph system between the telegrapher’s position in Don Station and another part of the museum. There are local telegraph enthusiasts and collectors who love to demonstrate this ground-breaking (in the 1800’s)
Click on each image for a closer look! Christmas is that time of the year when the railways work very hard to ensure that their passengers arrive safely home to their families to celebrate the holiday. Nowhere is that job more challenging than in Buffalo, New York, only 50 miles
Click on each image for a closer look! . Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major railway oriented events that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: January 21, 1930:
.Continuing our reporting on the topic of the railways dealing with the challenges of plowing snow from their tracks, the video above captures an Ontario Northland train using a locomotive mounted plow to blast through a five foot snow drift. Note that the engineer blasts the air horn all the
Click on the images for a closer look! . Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major railway oriented events that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: ‘December 4, 2006:
Click on each picture for a closer look! . On the occasion of today being Remembrance Day and as we did last year in a TRHA News posting, we are recognizing the CPR’s honouring of those who made magnificent sacrifices for out country by reprinting this year’s press release from
Click on the image for a closer look! . On the November 7th Anniversary of the driving of the last spike, the Federal Government of Canada has made this day of the year National Railway Day as announced in this Ottawa Citizen article – Feds make Nov. 7 National Railway
Click on each picture for a closer look! . November 7, 2010 marks the 125th anniversary of the driving of the Canadian Pacific Railway Last Spike at Craigellachie, British Columbia in 1885. Nowhere else in the world has a private railway company been so inextricably linked to nation building as
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Further to yesterday’s images of the John St. Roundhouse in 1985 as it was about to close, Derek Boles, our TRHA historian offers these two images to contrast how the interior looked in 1929 (Toronto Archives image) when the roundhouse first
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Derek Boles, TRHA’s historian, publishes a daily posting on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group List. These postings document major railway oriented events that happened on that day of the year. One of today’s items is as follows: . “September 19,