Marilyn's Photos - Sep 27 2025 - Op-en House Today

 

It is very easy to choose between a garbage open house and a model train layout open house tour.   The City of Hamilton is holding a free  Waste Facility Open House & Facility Tour on Saturday, September 27, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Resource Recovery Centre (1579 Burlington St E, Hamilton). Attendees can take a free 45-minute walking tour to see how waste is managed in Hamilton, and there is also an opportunity to drop off clean, dry clothing and textiles for donation.  Then there is the 23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout Tour in the Hamilton and Niagara area with 23 home and club layouts to visit between 9:00 and 5:00.   Gerry has been getting ready - his layout is on the tour,  I expect lots of people through today.  It won't be very difficult to decide which open house is more fun. Here are two  scene on his layout from a few years ago.  There is a lot of work done since then.

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Greetings in Steam

Puslinch is located south of Guelph, only an hour's drive away from Grimsby or Toronto.  It is rolling rural farm land, typical of Ontario. But it has an exceptional collection of steam traction equipment known as the Ontario Steam Heritage Museum.  We were lucky to visit yesterday for the Volunteer Open House - with live steam traction engines in the yard and a fiddle orchestra in the shop.  This felt like the farm version of the Santa Train ride. These huge steam tractors were pulling wagons full of riders along the wooded trails.  And there were quite a few tractors out and operating, so the air was full of steam. This is a privately-owned museum and restoration workshop.  It is on the property of owners Wayne and Judi Fischer.  You can read a little about it at ontariosteamheritagemuseum.ca  And there's a Wellington Advertiser article. There are so many forms of steam here - traditional tractors which we see in pictures of the yard.  There are shingle machines, wood-working machines,ship's engines, even a collection sewing machines was on display, That is what is interesting in the shop - how many tools, parts and supplies are present.   But back outside to the steam in the yard and the whistle blowing.