On the last day of scheduled steam service for the year the Portage Flyer has just left the Rotary Village Station and is headed for Fairy Lake with a familiar face (to me at least), RP contributo... (more)
Old number 2 prepares to run around its train at Fairy Lake. The old station building used to be the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Navigation Co. Purser's Cabin at Norway Point, Lake of Bays. Observ... (more)
Don't laugh! Oh, go ahead, laugh if you must! It is a funny looking little critter, but on a small narrow gauge operation like ours it actually comes in pretty handy, doing tr... (more)
Taking the old Brookville for a spin up the line after giving her a tune-up. This little switcher is powered by a late '60s Ford smallblock coupled to an automatic transmission and a reversible tr... (more)
The Portage Flyer approaches Fairy Lake Station on its second day of operations in 3 years. The coaches were both built in 1894 as horse-drawn trolleys before being acquired by the Huntsville and ... (more)
First fire in 3 years. Last night Judy and I spent 3 hours painting the boiler and steam dome with high-temp aluminum paint. This morning Chief Engineer Greg and I covered them with insulat... (more)
First fire in 3 years. Last night Judy and I spent 3 hours painting the boiler and smoke dome with high-temp aluminum paint. This morning Chief Engineer Greg and I covered them with insulat... (more)
Once touted as "the shortest commercially operated railway in the world" when it portaged the ridge between Peninsula Lake and Lake of Bays the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway now runs its "Po... (more)