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Newfoundland - Clarenville Heritage Society Inc.
Clarenville, NL - The Clarenville Heritage Society Inc. operates a volunteer based museum in the community of Clarenville in the former CN Railway station original built in 1942. The station building belongs to the Clarenville Shrine Club who restored the structure in the late 1990s and recently acquired Provincial Heritage Designation in partnership with the Heritage Society.
The Clarenville Heritage Society, located in the former CN Railway Station, is a dedicated group of volunteers who work hard in preserving the history of Clarenville and surrounding area.
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Newfoundland - Port aux Basques Railway Heritage Museum
Port aux Basques, NL - Located in Port aux Basques, the Railway Heritage Museum reflects the voyages that began over 100 years ago and takes a walk back in time to recapture the importance of the railway, fishery and ferry service in Newfoundland's history.
Examples of Channel-Port aux Basques' long and colourful heritage in the transportation and fishery industry can be seen at the Railway Heritage Museum. Currently our train cars consist of a Snowplow, a Diesel Locomotive, two Tank cars from World War II, a Newfoundland boxcar, a Sleeper car, two Baggage cars and a Caboose.
Two special historical artifacts at the museum are the Astrolabes, late medieval navigational instruments dating back to the 1600s discovered by Port aux Basques resident Wayne Mushrow on ship wrecks off of Isle aux Morts. The Mushrow Astrolabes are on display at the Railway Heritage Museum during the summer season.
Info: URL: http://www.portauxbasques.ca/tourism/railway_heritage_center.php (Added: 17-Dec-2016)
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Newfoundland - Railway Coastal Museum
St. John's, NL - The Railway Coastal Museum is housed in the original Riverhead Railway Station which was opened in 1903, and is located at 495 Water Street West in St. John's.
The Railway Coastal Museum
tells this amazing story through:
42 Pictorial Themed Exhibits.
1940s Passenger Train Diorama.
21 Costumed 1940s Figures.
28 Models, Murals, Paintings.
22 Posters, Biographies, Maps.
Automated Train Model.
50 Rail & Coastal Books + Gifts.
Mile 0 (photo-op marker), for the
Trans Canada Trail
Info: URL: https://www.railwaycoastalmuseum.ca/ (Added: 17-Dec-2016)
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Newfoundland - Railway Society of Newfoundland
Corner Brook, NL - A collection of narrow gauge rolling stock from the Newfoundland Railway including steam locomotive No. 593, working diesel electric locomotive No. 931, snow plow train and various other cars.
The Railway Society of Newfoundland was created in 1987 when Baldwin Steam Locomotive #593, "Newfie Bullet", was removed from Bowater's Park to the Historic Train Site at Humbermouth, Newfoundland. The Railway Society of Newfoundland has accumulated the rolling stock, trackage, freight shed and site. Artifacts also include telegraph instruments, train order sophomore signal board, train orders, phones and historic photos.
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Nova Scotia - Halifax and South Western Railway Museum
Lunenburg, NS - Halifax and South Western Railway Museum. Step back in time at the Halifax and South Western Railway Museum just outside Lunenburg on The Lighthouse Route. This feature-packed display provides the sights and sounds of a stationmaster's office from the 1940's including the clacking of the telegraph sounder and the clanging of the locomotive bell. An extensive S-gauge model railway shows many of the stations and scenes along the H&SW, including Liverpool and Lunenburg, as well as an authentic portrayal of the station, roundhouse and yard in Bridgewater. Fun is at hand for the entire family. Admission charged.
Info: URL: https://www.novascotiarailwayheritage.com/lunenburg.htm (Added: 31-Dec-2016)
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Nova Scotia - Hank Snow Country Music Centre
Liverpool, NS - Hank Snow Country Music Centre. Liverpool and its 1905 wooden station is home to the sights and sounds of country music at the Hank Snow Country Music Centre and the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame. This former Halifax & South Western station is located on Route 3.The restored railway ticket office features local railway lore. You will also see a replica of a water tank like those that supplied the old steam engines. Enjoy a walk on The Trestle Trail to its crossing of the Mersey River. Admission charged.
Info: URL: https://hanksnow.com/ (Added: 31-Dec-2016)
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Nova Scotia - Middleton Railway Museum
Middleton, NS - TWelcome to the Middleton Railway Museum (previously known as the Memory Lane Railway Museum) in Middleton, Nova Scotia. We are pleased to bring you a virtual taste of what our extensive Dominion Atlantic Railway collection in our museum is all about.
Exhibits feature scenes from the DAR as well as the CNR's intersecting line from Bridgewater to Bridgetown. A crossing gate and railway trolleys (speeders) provide interesting picture opportunities.
An extensive collection of railway memorabilia is on display with many historic artifacts including railroad implements from past years, antique station paraphernalia and railway uniforms of bygone days. There are historical books, manuscripts and pictures from Middleton and the surrounding area.
Children can operate a hands-on telegraph. Model railways, in various gauges including a garden railway, can be seen in operation. Visit the Bargain Centre and the Antique Farm Display including stationary engines.
Info: URL: http://www.middletonrailwaymuseum.org/ (Added: 31-Dec-2016)
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Nova Scotia - Musquodoboit Railway Museum
Musquodoboit Harbour, NS - Enjoy the story of Nova Scotia railways at the Musquodoboit Railway Museum on Route 7. Examine the posters, tickets, maps and photographs in the Canadian Northern Railway station of 1918. Don't miss the rare ex-CN GE 44-tonner and the unique mail crane. A DAR combine from Nova Scotia's last mixed passenger and freight train is another highlight. A Visitor Information Centre occupies the waiting room and you will find an ice cream stand beside the quiet picnic grove.
Info: URL: https://www.novascotiarailwayheritage.com/musquodoboit.htm (Added: 31-Dec-2016)
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Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Museum of Industry
Stellarton, NS - The Museum of Industry's nine locomotives represent all of the power sources that have so far been used to run a railway: steam, diesel, gasoline and electricity.
We have two of the oldest surviving locomotives in the world, Samson and Albion, and some interesting examples of small industrial engines from the twentieth century.
The railway was essential to link Nova Scotia to the rest of Canada for the transfer of goods and people. Locomotives were often necessary tools for large manufacturers as well. Nova Scotia's first rail line, the Albion Railway, was only about 10 km long, but it helped get Pictou County's coal to market.
Info: URL: https://museumofindustry.novascotia.ca/ (Added: 31-Dec-2016)
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Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia's Railway Heritage
Nova Scotia, on Canada's Atlantic Coast, is also called "Canada's Ocean Playground". The Province is steeped in a rich and varied history, as its original Mi'kmaq people were joined by French Acadian settlers, British Loyalists, Scottish Highlanders, German and French Protestants, Irish peasants fleeing famine and later by Italian and Polish miners.
Nova Scotia also has a rich and varied railway history, boasting one of the earliest railways in Canada to use steam locomotives (at the Albion Mines in Pictou County) and what was once North America's most intensively worked coal railway (the Sydney and Louisburg RR). "The Ocean Limited" was introduced in 1904 by the Intercolonial Railway to provide first-class passenger service between Halifax and Montreal. Remarkably, history can still be experienced today in Nova Scotia. Now thoroughly modernized, VIA Rail's "Ocean" continues to provide this service and is perhaps unique in being a named passenger train that has run for over a century.
The Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society is delighted to help introduce you to some of the railway history of Nova Scotia and to some of the museums in which you can relive past railway glories of one of Canada's most history-rich provinces. Kindly browse through the remainder of this site to learn about these museums.
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