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  • A diesel locomotive hauls a brown wooden boxcar across a railway turntable bridge. Glass highrise condos can be seen in the background

    Toronto Railway Museum is Open

    Toronto Railway Museum is Open The Toronto Railway Museum reopened on Wednesday, February 2, 2022. The museum space and gift shop in Stall 17 of the Roundhouse is open to…

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    Historic Places Days 2021

    Historic Places Days – Celebrating National Historic Places This summer the National Trust for Canada invites you to virtually visit historic places across Canada. Hundreds of sites are waiting to…

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    Don Station’s Restoration

    Welcome back to our blog series featuring Don Station! In case you missed it, you can read part one of this series here. Don Station was closed in 1967. After…

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    Don Station’s Story

    Time travel with us as we examine the oldest surviving railway station in Toronto⁠⁠ – Don Station. Part of the Toronto Railway Museum collection, Don is on display year-round at…

  • The royal train locomotive at John Street Roundhouse during the royal tour

    Royal Train Tours of Canada

    Thank you to everyone who attended our first lecture of 2021, Royal Train Tours of Canada. In honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 95th Birthday, we celebrated with an…

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    My Volunteer Story: Melissa Nsiah

    Happy National Volunteer Week! The theme for 2021 is “The value of one, the power of many” which is particularly apt given our distanced work right now. While the Museum…

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    My Volunteer Story: Jacqueline Tyler

    Happy National Volunteer Week! The theme for 2021 is “The value of one, the power of many”. This theme is particularly apt given our distanced work right now. The Museum…

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    A Locomotive Called Toronto

    The First Locomotive for the First Railway Welcome to part two of our Ontario, Simcoe & Huron Railway (OS&H) series! You can find part one here. As Toronto’s first railway,…

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    Toronto’s First Railway

    Tracks Through Toronto Toronto’s first railway was the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron (OS&H), later known as the Northern Railway of Canada. Consequently, the railway was designed to link the three…

  • 6213 on the Toronto Railway Museum turntable

    6213: Journey to the Toronto Railway Museum

    Meet No. 6213 Canadian National Railways No. 6213 is a U-2 class 4-8-4 Northern Type steam locomotive built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1942.  It was on active duty…

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Mini Train Rides

October 2024

Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 5:00 pm