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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 - 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.
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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.
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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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Nova Scotia - Orangedale Railway Museum
Orangedale, NS - Orangedale Railway Museum, Inverness County, Cape Breton represents a now unique, High Victorian style station built to a standard pattern in 1886 by the Intercolonial Railway Company. The Rankin Family's song "Orangedale Whistle" evokes the spirit of this rural station found four miles (6.4 kilometers) south from Exit 4 off the Trans Canada Highway.
Visitors will see the stationmaster's work place where tickets were sold and parcels and telegrams sent and received. Often telegraph demonstrations are given by the station agent on duty. The Ladies' Waiting Room displays an assortment of railway artefacts including a model of the Grand Narrows (near Iona) Railway Bridge. Original station lamps and a large locomotive bell are housed in the Express/Baggage Room.
The entire second floor was an apartment for the stationmaster and his family. You can see some of the original furniture, period furnishings, railway uniforms, artefacts found when the station platform was replaced and many historic pictures.
Outside is a replica freight shed and a number of pieces of rolling stock from a bygone era including a snowplow, boxcar, wooden caboose, industrial locomotive and speeder. On special days the locomotive and snow plow are operated.
Special events bring life and laughter to the station during the season as railroaders and enthusiasts gather to relive the heyday of the station.
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Nova Scotia - Sydney & Louisburg Railway Museum
Louisbourg, NS - Sydney & Louisburg Railway Museum. Experience the coal-hauling times of the Sydney & Louisburg Railway and its marine connections. Words, pictures and artifacts tell the story in and around the 1895 station and engine house. An extensive model of the town's coal-to-ship transfer now occupies the freight shed. A large quilt display and vintage passenger and freight cars are seen here including Nova Scotia's oldest passenger coach, built in 1881. The Louisburg Station on Route 22 is also home to an important Visitor Information Centre.
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Nova Scotia - Tatamagouche Train Station Inn & Railway Dining Car
Tatamagouche, NS - Train Station Inn & Railway Dining Car. Our century old Train Station in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia was restored in the 1980's with furnishings reflecting its railway past.
The station itself and its spacious cabooses offer a unique, boutique hotel experience. The Train Station has been restored with three bedrooms, private baths, a parlor, sitting rooms, balcony & kitchenette all in the original Stationmaster's residence on the second floor. On the first floor a railway museum, café & gift shop are in the men's and ladies' waiting rooms as well as the telegraph room
The Dining Car is a first class experience. The car was built in 1928 and was used by CNR. It found its new home in 2001, and since then has been refurbished into a dining car. It is open daily for lunch and dinner, mid May through mid October. Private event bookings and reservations are welcome.
The Cabooses started arriving in 1994 and date from 1911 to 1978. Each of the seven cabooses have been renovated into deluxe accommodations reflecting the age of the railway car. Queen size beds, fireplaces, air-conditioning, TV, WiFi, railway memorabilia and private baths are just some of the amenities in the cabooses.
Info: URL: https://www.tatatrainstation.com/ (Added: 31-Dec-2016)
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Ontario - Algoma Central Tour Train
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - Welcome aboard one of the most popular train tours in North America. This one-day wilderness excursion will transport you 114 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, over towering trestles, alongside pristine northern lakes and rivers and through the awesome granite rock formations and vast mixed forests of the Canadian Shield.
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Ontario - C. Robert Craig Memorial Library
Ottawa, Ontario - Canadian Rail History - Founded in 1994, the Library was established to collect, preserve and make available to the public, materials that document the history of rail transportation in Canada. Materials focusing on the railways surrounding the Ottawa area are of particular interest. The Library has a significant collection of books, magazines, photographs, slides, plans, and archival materials of Ottawa area railway-related organisations. The objective is to provide a comprehensive research base for those seeking information about Canadian railways.
Info: URL: https://www.crcml.org/ (Added: 12-Jun-2000)
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