Reinhart Vinegar Car at Harbourfront Museum On the TRHA website, we only briefly speak to the vinegar car in our collection as follows: “This rare vinegar tank car was constructed for Reinhart Vinegars in 1938. It has a steel frame atop which ride wooden tanks specially designed to
Reinhart Vinegars (now Reinhart Foods) is a company based in Stayner, Ontario that was founded in 1910 and has historically produced and sold a variety of apple products. A freight car was purchased by them in 1964, designated RVLX 101, and subsequently refitted with a specialized wooden tank to transport
The TRHA has acquired a number of freight cars which are on display in Roundhouse Park. Click on the links below to see information and photos on the freight cars in our collection:
Continuing my postings on my field trip to the first day of full staffing for the summer season, I also captured the following images: The museum entrance area has been reorganized by our volunteers to be much less cluttered and much more appealing. Smaller artefacts on display are now flanked
Our volunteers were busy again this past weekend working on various restoration projects. Lance Gleich and Michael Guy took a break from these tasks to pursue the opportunity to snap some photos of Roundhouse Park in the winter. Below we feature their photos. Posting by Russ Milland; Photos by Lance
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
Click on each image for a closer look! . Continuing our coverage of the Doors Open weekend, this post focusses on the equipment on display throughout Roundhosue Park. We can now raise the boom on the Pyke Crane. In the upper left images, we find the crane being used to
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Today, Derek Boles, our TRHA historian posted the following on the Toronto Railway Heritage Yahoo Group today as one of several items of historical interest on this day of the year: “May 17, 1975: The Toronto & York Division of the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . . Visitors to the roundhouse this year had the unique oppportunity to see the newly renovated interior with several concrete firewalls removed allowing the visitor to see much of the roundhouse in one sweeping view. In the picture at left, we
The TRHA would like to announce two significant donations to the Roundhouse and the City of Toronto. The Upper Canada Railway Society has gifted the Canadian Pacific Railway heavyweight passenger car “Cape Race” to the museum. This car will be restored to it’s former glory as a prime example of