Northern Ontario Railroad Museum

Northern Ontario Railroad Museum

Coordinates: 46°42′33″N 80°55′27″W / 46.7092°N 80.9242°W / 46.7092; -80.9242

Northern Ontario Railroad Museum
Established 1993
Location Capreol in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Type Railroad Museum
Website www.NorthernOntarioRailroadMuseum.ca

The Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre is located in the community of Capreol in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The museum's mandate is to provide a unique and educational tourist attraction that preserves and displays the railroading past and heritage of Northern Ontario.

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Museum Building

The museum's building was built in 1916 and served as the home for the superintendent of Canadian National Railway for most of its life. In 1997 the town of Capreol purchased it to be turned into a museum.

Prescott Park

Named for former mayor of Capreol who donated the land, Harold Prescott, this park holds the Northern Ontario Railroad Museum's train exhibit.

Canadian National Railways 6077

CN 6077 was built in 1944 by Montreal Locomotive Works and with its tender weighs three hundred and twenty tons . It can hold 11,700 gallons of water and could reach speeds of 125 mph (201 km/h).[citation needed] After years of hard work trying to get a steam engine on display in Capreol former mayor Harold Prescott was told in 1966 that the locomotive would be given as a gift to the city from the Canadian National Railway[1]

INCO Electric 101

This 50 ton type electric engine was built by Westinghouse Electric in 1919. It was formerly owned by The Hydro-Electric Power Commission Ontario Hydro and used for the Queenston Chippewa power generator. It was bought by International Nickel in July 1926. It was retired by INCO in 1998 and donated to be put on display at the Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre.

Displays

The displays in the museum are all Northern Ontario railroad artifacts. Most of them have been donated by people in the community.

  • Clothes irons and other tools of the time

  • The interior of the cab of Steam Engine 6077

  • The Museum

  • Steam Engine 6077

  • Rules Instruction Car

  • One of two INCO electric engines on display

  • A classroom on the school car

Affiliations

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada. Steam Engine 6060 website


See also

References

  1. ^ Paterson and George Steam at Oakville 1988 Boston Mills Press Erin, Ontario

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