Postcard from Canada

I owe a big thank you to our official researcher, Wesley Paulson, who just returned from a visit to the Halton County Radial Railway in Canada and sent several updates and photos to help fill out and update the PNAERC list.Wesley was able to nab some photos of cars at HCRY that are pictured on the PNAERC roster, but whose images are either poor or outdated. Above is TTC C1, a 1911 derrick, which has deftly evaded most photographers visiting the museum. The only photo I had of this car dated to (I think?) the 1990s.This single-truck rail grinder, TTC RT7, was rebuilt from a Toronto Civic Railway streetcar. I didn't have any decent photos at all of this car, though that's understandable given that it's not on public display.Every museum has one or two cars that were disassembled, either in part or in full, for a restoration project that then stalled. TTC 1704, shown here, is awaiting a future restart of a major rebuilding. This car is identical to TTC 1706 at Branford.Wesley also got…