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Toronto Railway Museum (Virtual): “Rails Across Ontario” with Ron Brown

May 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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.

TICKETS

Tickets for this event are free, although registration is required.

Attendees will get access to our exclusive Zoom meeting room, where they can engage directly with the presenter and museum historians in a post-lecture Q&A. The event will begin at May 18th, 7:00 P.M Eastern Standard Time, and will end at May 18th, 8:30 P.M EST.

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.

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Toronto Railway Museum
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416-214-9229
Email
manager@trha.ca
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