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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…
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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…
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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…