Frugal Film June Episode, Off to the Halton Radial Railway Museum.

Considering I've lived in Halton Region in the town of Oakville for over 40 years, I'm kicking myself for not visiting here sooner. Growning up in Montreal my dad took me to Expo Rail in Delson on the South Shore, there you could ride some of the trains and see many more around the museum outdoors and inside their barns. 

The Halton Radial Railway is pretty much the same but on smaller scale on some old Toronto Suburban Railway right of way off Guelph Line north of Campbellville just west of Milton. The museum focus is on streetcars and interurban cars along with other public transit pieces including a couple of trolley busses from Hamilton Street Railway, Two TTC subway cars one of them being one of the Red Gloucester cars from the earliest days of the Yonge Subway Line, a Chicago Transity Authority EL car and one Monteral and Southern Counties  Interurban car. 

So this makes the perfect installment for the Frugal Film Project. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, Jo-Anne and I had a ball exploring the exhibits. We rode the London and Port Stanley Interurban car to start, then No 327, and then the Peter Whitt street car which Toronto along with other North American cities ran with from the 1920s to the 1950s. Seems New Orleans still uses the Peter Whitt cars with their streetcar system. 




Camera: Nikon N90S, Nikkor AF-D 28-105 F3.5-4.5 Zoom Lens. 

Film: Kodak Ultramax 400. 



No 327 at Rockwood Station CP CAboose and VIA Rail Baggage Coach_ Ramp to the London and Port Stanley Interurban 1980s Rocket CP Rail Box Car_ East End Cafe Rotting PCC Cars London and Port Stanley Car London and Port Stanley Car and Museum Volunteer London and Port Stanley Car Other Side LPS Logo_ Switch off to the Loop Two PCC Cars Back to Back Jo Anne Enjoying her Ice Cream no 327 Rolling In Peter Witt Car Waiting for Passengers Two Peter Witt Car Head On_ Doors Open to the Car Barn Rusted Out PCC Car Barn Doors Open CLRVs in the Yard CLRV 511 Straight Ahead CLRV Side Profile Hamilton Street Railway Trolley Bus

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