{"id":503,"date":"2017-02-05T22:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T22:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/?page_id=503"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:26:49","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/links\/","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebooklogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2044\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebooklogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"54\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re on Facebook!<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoldenHorseshoeLiveSteamers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Other links<\/h4>\n<p>Here, we provide links to other Websites of interest especially to railway fans in Southern Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 They are listed in order of their proximity to our home base of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 Below that you&#8217;ll find several hobby links, a list of some other miniature railways within driving distance, and something for railway history buffs, as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemanstation.ca\/\">Burlington Junction Station<\/a> (&#8220;Freeman Station&#8221;)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burlingtonmodelrailwayclub.ca\/\">Burlington Model Railway Club<\/a> &#8211; model railways in 3 scales<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbg.ca\/trains\">Royal Botanical Gardens<\/a> &#8211; two G scale exhibits (Seasonal)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HOMESTrainClub\/\">HOMES Model Engineers Society<\/a> &#8211; HO scale model railway<\/li>\n<li>Hamilton Society of Railroaders &#8211; O scale model railway (no Web site, email us for telephone contact information)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hcry.org\/\">Halton County Radial Railway<\/a> &#8211; Extensive operating streetcar and interurban museum near Rockwood, Ontario, Canada<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariosteamheritagemuseum.ca\/\">Ontario Steam Heritage Museum &#8211; tours by appointment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caorm.org\/index.php\">Canadian Association of Railway Modelers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Central Ontario Garden Railway Association (COGRA) &#8211; G scale in garden settings (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/COGRACanada\/\">on Facebook<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/torontorailwaymuseum.com\/\">Toronto Railway Museum<\/a>-Located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada &#8212; historic railway property and mini train rides.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trha.ca\">Toronto Railway Historic Association<\/a> &#8211; Developers and operators of the Toronto Railway Museum.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nfrm.ca\/\">Niagara Railway Museum<\/a> &#8211; Located in Fort Erie, Ontario in the former diesel shops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><strong>Hobby links<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winona Garden Railway &#8211; miniature steam retailer, <br>           Puslinch\/Guelph, Ontario  <a href=\"https:\/\/wgrr.ca\/\">https:\/\/wgrr.ca\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike&#8217;s Rail Cars&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikesrailcars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mikesrailcars.com\/&nbsp;<\/a><br>&nbsp;<br>Plumb Cove Studios&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plumcovestudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.plumcovestudios.com\/<\/a><br><br>Discover Live Steam&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/discoverlivesteam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/discoverlivesteam.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Titan Trains <a href=\"https:\/\/titantrains.net\/\">https:\/\/titantrains.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Train Works <a href=\"https:\/\/thetrainworks.com\/\">https:\/\/thetrainworks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other miniature railway operations to visit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A comprehensive list of clubs can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/discoverlivesteam.com\/A-clubs.htm\">https:\/\/discoverlivesteam.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our favourites, within reasonable driving distance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mud Creek Central Railroad  <a href=\"http:\/\/mudcreek.org\/\">http:\/\/mudcreek.org\/<\/a> &#8211; 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Check these out:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rainhill_Trials\">Story of the Rainhill Trials &#8211; 1829 &#8212; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video:   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HFJQHSJ8meU\">\u201cThe Rainhill Story- Stephenson\u2019sRocket\u201d<\/a> <br>(many more videos under the &#8220;Steam Loco 101&#8221; tab)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on Facebook!\u00a0 Click here Other links Here, we provide links to other Websites of interest especially to railway fans in Southern Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 They are listed in order of their proximity to our home base of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 Below that you&#8217;ll find several hobby links, a list of some other miniature railways within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-503","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghls.org\/ghlsv1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}