admin | June 25, 2010
Heritage Festival at Moore Museum June 27th in Mooretown. From 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. Model Steam tractors, Model trains , Vintage Automobiles, Bluegrass Band, Goodies made the old fashioned way. And of course the Museum itself. Come and check it out.
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admin | June 12, 2010
Some of the Stories
Globe and Mail – High Speed to the World Cup
Gautrain click here for the link
Commuters give Gautrain the thumbs up
10 June 2010
Hundreds of Johannesburg residents who boarded the Gautrain on is first commercial run on Tuesday have given the high speed train the thumbs up.
Passengers, who were among the first to [...]
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admin | May 27, 2010
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admin | May 20, 2010
Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
May 4, 1854
Icebergs in the Atlantic
Every ship from Europe brings accounts of an unusual quantity of
icebergs in the Atlantic. It is probable that the north-westerly winds which have prevailed in this latitude to such an extraordinary degree this winter, have raged also in the Arctic circle, have set the ice [...]
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admin | May 15, 2010
Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
May 4, 1854
Railroad to the Pacific – The Grand Trunk
Mr. Walter Shanley, well known as a Canadian Engineer to the Directors of the Port Huron and Michigan Railroad Company, has presented his report to that Company. The report is not yet printed, but the following is an extract from [...]
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admin | May 13, 2010
This recently aquired photo of Sarnia’s Steam Locomotive 6069 was taken in Oakville Ontario in 1957.
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admin | April 25, 2010
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
May 4, 1854
The Grand Trunk Railroad
The following, intended for the information of the British public, is taken from a late number
of the London Morning Advertiser; Montreal feb. 20
I promised, in my last weeks communication, to forward you a few particulars with
reference to the Grand Trunk Railroad, [...]
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admin | April 19, 2010
Woodstock Model Train Show
Sunday April 25th.
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admin | April 16, 2010
Spring
April 24th & 25th
May 1st & 2nd, 8th & 9th
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admin | April 16, 2010
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
April 13, 1854
Canadian Grand Trunk Railway
A very large emigration of masons,carpenters, quarry men, engine drivers, engine fitters and
other artisans, is taking place for this railway. Between four and five hundred have already
left England, and all the third class accomodation in the canadian Serew Company’s vessels which
leave Liverpool [...]
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