Click on each picture for a closer look! . In the above left picture, we find the patio paving contractors hard at work organizing the complex task of laying the patio stones between the radial tracks. . This past week, PNR Railworks has also been continuing to lay the tracks
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Click on each picture for a closer look. . The Annual Toronto “Doors Open” Event will be held this weekend across the city. The Toronto “Doors Open” website offers the following information: . “The City of Toronto’s Cultural Services is proud to present the annual Doors Open Toronto – one
Click on each picture for a closer look! . For the past two weeks, TRHA volunteers have been playing a game of “spin the table and shuffle the cars”. They have been engaged in a complicated game of “keep the contractors happy” by switching vehicles from track to track and
Click on each picture for closer look! . In the picture at the above left, we see Cabin D and to its right the toolshed in their original location to the west of the Bathurst Street bridge. Next, we see a pair of pictures of the tool shed as we
Click on each picture for a closer look! . Preparing the massive #6213 steam engine for the imminent move to Roundhouse Park is a formidable task. This condensed version of a recent work report from Grant Kingsland gives the reader a sense of the work effort involved and the challenges
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! . The challenge was to remove the newly build passenger car (built on a speeder trailer) from the Machine Shop to be stored with the rest of our rolling stock on our standard gauge track system. The car barely fit through the
Click on each picture for a closer look! . With the radial tracks all laid out between the turntable and the doors of the roundhouse, the laying down of the patio using red paving bricks which complement the roundhouse itself has begun. In the pictures above, we see the rubber
Click on each image for a closer look! . During my visit to the roundhouse last weekend, I took a number of pictures which could be of interest to the readers of this News blog. . In the picture at upper left, we see that the long process of switch
Click on each picture for a closer look! . It took a little longer than expected to start, but last Friday, PNR Railworks was finally able to start ballasting the individual tracks leading from the turntable to the stalls of the roundhouse. With the assistance of our intrepid band of