The Winnipeg Railway Museum is a

railway museum A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives ( steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic ...

located on tracks 1 and 2 within the

Via Rail Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via, is a Canadian Crown corporation that is mandated to operate intercity passenger rail service in Canada. It receives an annual subsidy from Transport Canada to offset the cost of operating ...

-operated Union Station in

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...

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. Volunteers from the Midwestern Rail Association Inc., a non-profit organization founded in 1975, operate the museum. The museum is affiliated with CMA,

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and

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Overview

The museum preserves rail history in canada The collection features the '' Countess of Dufferin''Equipment, a
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s, a Jordan spreader from 1911, the history and artifacts of the building of the Hudson Bay Railway to

Churchill, Manitoba Churchill is a town in northern Manitoba, Canada, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly from the Manitoba–Nunavut border. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname ...

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HO scale HO or H0 is a rail transport modelling scale using a 1:87 scale (3.5 mm to 1 foot). It is the most popular scale of model railway in the world. The rails are spaced apart for modelling standard gauge tracks and trains in HO. NMRA"Mo ...

model layout, and a gift shop. In 2015, restoration began on Winnipeg's last

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, Car 356, to be displayed at the Winnipeg Railway Museum. The museum exhibit hall is, in fact, disused platforms and tracks that have been parked with display locomotives, carts, and portable buildings with model-train sets on display. The staircase leading to the museum from the

station is the same that was used to get onto the platform when that section of the station was in use. The other stairs have been sealed and locked to this day. It is unknown what will happen to this terminal as the museum is likely to be moved. Long-term plans may involve moving the Winnipeg Railway Museum elsewhere in Winnipeg to make way for a rapid transit hub station where several '

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' routes might meet. In preparation, the museum is now slated to close on December 31, 2021 for relocation.

Gallery

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