October 30th @7pm, at the Lock 3 Museum in St. Catharines is the next CRHA Niagara monthly meeting. If you have not already done so, please consider paying your 2025 membership dues at the meeting. You may take advantage of the early payment bonus and receive a 2025 CRHA Niagara calendar with your membership for a package price of $50. This offer expires on October 31st.
Benefits of CRHA Niagara membership
Membership fee for 2025 $30.00 (Unchanged)
Early payment bonus – for membership paid no later than October 31, 2024
Membership $30.00
2025 CRHA Niagara Calendar $20.00 (regular price $25.00)
Total $50.00
The 2025 CRHA Niagara calendar is really an album of rare historic rail photos and their stories.
Methods of Payment
Membership must be paid no later than January 31st, 2025 to continue all the benefits.
We look forward to seeing you as we start the next exciting year at CRHA Niagara. Meetings are at 7:00 PM, the last Wednesday of each month, from September to May, except December, at the Lock 3 Museum in St. Catharines. Meetings are “hybrid”, that is by Zoom link, and face-to-face, unless it is clear there is an impending winter storm.
The 14th annual edition of CRHA Niagara Division’s excellent calendars are available. Check them out on our calendar page.
September 25th marks the start on the next year of CRHA Niagara monthly meetings. It is also time to renew your membership, or join if you are not yet a member.
Benefits of CRHA Niagara membership
Membership fee for 2025 $30.00 (Unchanged)
Early payment bonus – for membership paid no later than October 31, 2024
Membership $30.00
2025 CRHA Niagara Calendar $20.00 (regular price $25.00)
Total $50.00
The 2025 CRHA Niagara calendar is really an album of rare historic rail photos and their stories.
Methods of Payment
Membership must be paid no later than January 31st, 2025 to continue all the benefits.
We look forward to seeing you as we start the next exciting year at CRHA Niagara. Meetings are at 7:00 PM, the last Wednesday of each month, from September to May, except December, at the Lock 3 Museum in St. Catharines. Meetings are “hybrid”, that is by Zoom link, and face-to-face, unless it is clear there is an impending winter storm.
Feature Presentation by model railroader/historian Terry Hughes on
‘How Model Railroading Can Advance
Our Local Railway Heritage’
(a ‘must see’ -the connection between model railroading and Niagara railway history)
PowerPoint presentations also include:
Luckydraws FREE ADMISSION FREE PARKING Railway Book Auction
CRHA (since 1932), CRHA Niagara Division (since 1978)
June 21st, 2024 was the annual Longest Day of train watching attended by several members, including a member from UK. Several photos can be found on this page: June 2024 – Longest Day
Last night was our May hybrid (in-person and online) meeting and was attend by about twenty plus folks. Many of us started off with a large group at Ricky-Jo’s sharing a meal a great stories. We whisked through the business portion of the meeting and got straight to the presentations. We had four digital shows and one slide show.
We were treated to an excellent show by Andy Panko highlighting the history of the of NS&T main line through Merritton including maps, diagrams and photos. He also covered the history of the Michigan Central line through St. David’s including the story of a cement plant built on the side of the escarpment, again with many photos. He also outlined an upcoming hike planned for mid-October featuring many historic rail sites in the Niagara Falls and St. David’s area.
We then had a wonderful presentation by Glenn Cherry of his recent trip into the US to see and photograph CPKC’s Hudson steam engine 2816 on its tour through western Canada and down into the US. This was followed up by Tammy’s super presentation which overlapped Glenn’s also covering 2816 with additional photos of American short lines. Then Ricahrd Guitar, one of our ZOOM attendees, shared some of his digitized slides of railway scenes from the 1970s.
Finally we had a slide show by Steve Armstrong which featured some very artistic shots of steam excursions from the 1970s. All in all they were all excellent presentations.
The Longest Day is coming up on Friday June 21st where, those that wish to, will gather on the Laking Garden bridge for breakfast and the morning rush of trains. Our BBQ is also planned for July and a GO trip is planned for August so it should be an enjoyable summer. Our next hybrid meeting is scheduled for Wednesday September 25th at the Lock 3 Museum and over ZOOM.
There are still a few copies left of our excellent 2024 calendar. Email chrisjpaxton@icloud.com to get yours. See the calendar page here for more details.
The monthly hybrid meeting was last night at The St. Catharines Museum at Lock 3 with good attendance in person and on line. Plans were discussed for The Longest Day which falls on the Summer Solstice; the CHRA Niagara annual BBQ which is set for July; a GO train trip planned for August and a fall hike set for October. There were great presentations by Glenn Cherry, Dean Brown and Andy Panko. All in all another successful meeting, looking forward to the next one on May 29th. See you then!