Yesterday evening, our historian Derek Boles led another successful talk over WebEx on the topic of Don Station’s history to dozens of listeners. On behalf of the TRHA, thank you to all who joined us! We hope you come back for future talks or other events, which you can find
Since this past fall, the Toronto Railway Museum and City of Toronto’s Parks Department have been working to construct a new garden and boardwalk between Steam Whistle Brewery and the current location of our Cape Race passenger car. Lorne Charenko, one of our volunteers and a TRM Director, initiated and
This past Saturday, the 23rd of November, the TRHA hosted a Town Hall meeting for our volunteers and staff in order to continue our ongoing and discussion of current activities, issues and future plans. Our last such meeting was held in August. Among the various points discussed were: The ongoing
Our restoration team continue to work on the CNR Caboose restoration as shown in the photos below. One side of the caboose is now completely sheathed. The door in the side of the caboose was placed their by our team in anticipation of needing it for some of the uses
One of our volunteers, Stephen Gardiner, has been building models in HO scale of many our the Museum’s artefacts. Last year, he displayed a model of the CPR’s Cape Race. Recently he completed a model of the second of our passenger cars, the CPR Jackman as shown below. Click here
After 28 years parked and cold the first diesel switcher the CPR brought to Toronto has been brought back to life a week before the 70th anniversary of its arrival in Toronto. For the past few months, Chris Fox, a specialist in diesel-electric locomotives, assisted by Michael Guy have spent many,
In earlier TRHA News postings (click here to read them) we told the story of Barry Silverthorne’s saving an F7 cab decades ago (see his pictures above) and subsequently donating it to us at the Toronto Railway Museum.. Our volunteers have been working over the past few years to restore
Photo by Mark Kaluza Jason Shron of the TRHA, leader of our LRC Restoration project, reports: “For the first time in over ten years, an LRC locomotive has pulled an LRC train! And for the first time in history, an LRC locomotive has pulled a rebuilt LRC coach! With the
Background: Our CPR #7020 is a “war engine”, acquired to meet the crushing demands of the World War II effort. In the late 1930’s, diesel-electrics started to supplant steam locomotives in the switching function, primarily in urban areas. Steam switchers required two-person crews (an engineer and a fireman), had low
In our last TRHA News posting, we covered the installation of new pumps into the LRC locomotive which the TRHA acquired for restoration, one of only two left on the planet. We are pleased to announce that our LRC Project Team has now successfully restarted the LRC’s diesel engine. They