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SOLD OUT Online Lecture: Rails Across Ontario
May 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join us for “Rails Across Ontario”, an online lecture on May 18!
Join us and author Ron Brown as we travel back to a time when the railway ruled the economy and the landscape. Based on Ron’s book, Rails Across Ontario, this presentation will take us to places in Ontario that retain vestiges of our railway heritage, including old stations, roundhouses and other often forgotten railway structures, as well as railway experiences you can still enjoy.
Explore historic stations, railway museums, heritage train rides, and historic bridges. Follow old rail lines along Ontario’s most popular rail trails. Find out where steam engines still puff across farm fields and where historic train coaches lead deep into the wilds of Ontario’s scenic north country. Discover long forgotten but once vital railway structures, such as roundhouses, coal docks, and water towers. Learn about regular VIA Rail routes that follow some of the province’s oldest rail lines and pass some of the province’s oldest rail lines and pass some of its most historic stations, including one that has operated continuously since 1857.
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ABOUT RON BROWN
Ron Brown is a geographer and travel writer, and vice president of the East York Historical Society. He has published more than 20 books on such topics as ghost towns, back roads, and Ontario’s most unusual places, as well as several titles on Canada’s railway heritage.
ABOUT THE TORONTO RAILWAY MUSEUM (TRM)
The Toronto Railway Museum (TRM) brings people together by telling stories of Toronto’s railway heritage. The Museum is located in the heart of downtown Toronto and is typically open year-round. TRM presents exhibits, tours, educational programs and publications that broaden the understanding and appreciation of Toronto’s rich railway history. TRM is committed to telling the stories of the railways, and welcoming conversations of its varied experiences through its lecture series, exhibits and integrated programming with a mission to learn from the past to make the future better.