Northern Ontario Railroad Museum
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| Established | August 31, 1993 |
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| Location | Capreol in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. |
| Coordinates | 46°42′33″N 80°55′27″W / 46.7092°N 80.9242°W |
| Visitors | approx. 10,000 per year |
| President | Wendy Paul |
| Website |
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The Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre is a rail transport museum 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.
History
The Northern Ontario Railroad Museum & Heritage Centre was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1993. During the months of July and August, the museum initially operated out of the Caboose in Prescott Park with a display of railroad memorabilia. In 1997, the museum acquired the former home of the superintendent of Canadian Northern Railway and Canadian National Railway.
In 2012, the former Capreol fire hall was acquired by the museum. The fire hall was used actively until October 2010. Since it was built in 1923, it has served as the police station and jail, circuit court, temporary housing, council chambers, town offices, credit union and the fire station.[1]
Prescott Park
Prescott Park, named for former mayor of Capreol Harold Prescott, holds the museums locomotive and rolling stock exhibits outdoors, as well as the museum's G-Scale model train outdoor layout.
Train & Rolling Stock Collection
The museum's train collection includes four locomotives, six pieces of rolling stock, as well as several mining cars, handcars, and speeders. The museum currently has the following on display:
Locomotives:
- Canadian National Railways CN 6077 1944 U-1-f Class MLW 4-8-4 steam locomotive
- Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway #219 MLW 4-6-0 steam locomotive
- INCO #101 1919 Westinghouse Electric locomotive
- INCO #116 1948 General Electric locomotive
Rolling Stock:
- Canadian National Railways caboose #77562 (built in 1899)
- Canadian National Railways caboose #79231 (built by Hawker Siddeley in 1967)
- Canadian National Railways rules instruction car #15019 (built by Pullman Standard in 1912 for Intercolonial Railway, currently used as a School Car exhibit)
- Canadian National Railways warehouse-baggage car #60049 (built by National Steel Car in 1953)
- Canadian National Railways snow plow #55208 (built in 1924)
- Canadian National Railways crane #50392
- INCO hot metal car #5
- INCO slag pot car
Heritage Centre
The Former Capreol fire hall, located one block east of the main site, is used to house and display the in-process restoration project of the town's first police vehicle purchase, a 1956 Dodge Fargo (used as the police force's paddy wagon and a 1929 Godferson Bickle fire engine.[2] The Fire Hall is also the location of the museum's library and offices, exhibits on the social history of the town and surrounding area, as well as annual exhibits involving different themes, currently showing Capreol's sport history and a vintage toy display.
Gallery
Steam engine 6077
The interior of the cab of Steam engine 6077
Rules instruction car
One of two INCO electric engines on display
A classroom on the school car
Clothes irons and other tools of the time
G-Scale Train at the NORMHC.jpg)
Steam engine 219
hot metal car
CN 50392 rail crane
See also
References
- ↑ "Capreol Museum Acquires Historic Fire Hall". The Sudbury Star. 24 September 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- ↑ "Capreol Railway Shrine Adds Fire Truck". The Sudbury Star. 17 November 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
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