Thanks to a generous donation from CN the Alberta Railway Museum (in Edmonton, Alberta) has recently received CN #1179 which was originally constructed for the Northern Alberta Railways (NAR) and numbered NAR #302.  More importantly, #302  was named after Chief Moostoos, the First Nations Chief who signed Treaty #8, the last treaty

In the past few months, VIA Rail Canada offered the Museum the donation of an old electrically powered baggage cart which formerly operated on the Union Station platforms. As shown in the picture below, we brought one of these back to the Museum. A fleet of these “green baggage carts”

Spurred by the Lac Megantic disaster and the ensuing controversy over the safe transport of crude oil by rail, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) have continued to play a strong role in working with the Federal Government in the area of Rail Safety Safety as described on their website. 

We occasionally feature local model railroad clubs, especially when they have open house events giving  us the opportunity to visit and enjoy them. The Burlington Model Railroad Club (BCMR) is holding just such an event this weekend, Saturday, June 7th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Here is what they

We have had several photo shoots at our museum.  Recently, Jeff Green led a cast of 20 folks in authentic period costumes from the middle of the last century in a photo shoot in the railway gallery of the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Below are

In our final news item in our series about the Doors Open event, we feature pictures of visitors enjoying many of our other attractions in Roundhouse Park! We thank all of the volunteers who helped made this happen and also the model railroaders and exhibitors who came out and enlightened

As is the case on every weekend, the miniature train ride was very popular with visitors at our Doors Open Event.  Both the Mini-Whitcomb, a model of our full size locomotive and the Sweet Creek 2-6-0 Mogul steam engine were pressed into service to handle the crowds. Click here to

On May 24th and 25th, we once again hosted a Train Show and opened as many attractions as our volunteer resources permitted as part of the Toronto city-wide Doors Open event.   In this series of postings, we take you there to experience the event. We begin by showing images from

The North Carolina Transportation Museum’s next major railroad event, “Streamliners at Spencer,” will be a four-day festival for lovers of classic streamlined locomotives of the 1930s through the 1950s.  These engines will be gathered around their 37-stall Roundhouse turntable for daytime portraits, special operations, nighttime photos and more. One steam