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Scenic Railroad Attractions In Canada

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Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border. Its capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. As a whole, Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land area being dominated by forest and tundra. Consequently, its population is highly urbanized, with over 80 per...
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Scenic Railroad Attractions In Canada

  • 1. Halton County Radial Railway Milton
    The Halton County Radial Railway is a working museum of electric streetcars, other railway vehicles, trolleybusses and buses. It is operated by the Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association . It is focused primarily on the history of the Toronto Transit Commission and its predecessor, the Toronto Transportation Commission , with a collection including PCC, and Peter Witt cars, earlier streetcars and Gloucester series and Montreal-built subway cars. The museum is open to the public, with rides on many of its vehicles. It is located between the villages of Rockwood and Campbellville in Milton, Ontario, Canada, along part of the Toronto Suburban Railway’s former right-of-way. The tracks conform to TTC’s gauge of 4 ft 10 7⁄8 in , 60 mm wider than 1,435 mm standard gauge. Vehicles f...
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  • 2. VIA Rail Canada Montreal Station Montreal
    The Montreal Central Station is the major inter-city rail station and a major commuter rail hub in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Nearly 11 million rail passengers use the station every year.The main concourse occupies almost the entire block bounded by De la Gauchetière Street, Robert-Bourassa Boulevard, René Lévesque Boulevard and Mansfield Street in Downtown Montreal. Its street address and principal vehicular access are on de La Gauchetière; pedestrian access is assured by numerous links through neighboring buildings. The station is adorned with art deco bas-relief friezes on its interior and exterior. The station building and associated properties are owned by Cominar REIT as of January 2012. Homburg Invest Inc. was the previous owner, since November 30, 2007. Prior to that, from the s...
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  • 3. Waterloo Central Railway Waterloo
    Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo , and is adjacent to the city of Kitchener. Kitchener and Waterloo are often jointly referred to as Kitchener–Waterloo, KW, or the Twin Cities . While there were several unsuccessful attempts to combine the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, following the 1973 establishment of the Region of Waterloo there was less motivation to do so. At the time of the 2016 census, the population of Waterloo was 104,986.
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  • 4. Port Stanley Terminal Rail Port Stanley
    Port Stanley is a community in the Municipality of Central Elgin, Ontario, Elgin County, on the north shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of Kettle Creek. In 2016, it had a population of 2,148.
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  • 5. Alberni Pacific Railway Port Alberni
    Port Alberni is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Port Alberni has a total population of 17,678, and a census agglomeration area of 25,112. Port Alberni is a deep port city which lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. It is the location of the head offices of the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District.
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  • 6. Iron Horse Park Airdrie
    Iron Horse Park is a miniature ridable railway running multiple large scales operated by The Alberta Model Engineering Society. Iron horse park is one of the largest 7 1⁄2 in gauge railway in Canada. The park is run by volunteers. The Alberta Model Engineering Society promotes education in Alberta about most things engineering around railways. The journeys are used to educate both kids and adults on both modern and old steam engines. The park is located in Airdrie, Alberta, and is on leased land from the city to be used as an educational park. The history goes back to 1971 and has moved around Southern Alberta. Previously the raised track was located at Camp Gardner, Alberta. The journey is a simulated trip from Aidrie to Vancouver which goes through Tunnel Mountain on its way through th...
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  • 7. South Simcoe Railway Tottenham
    The South Simcoe Railway is a steam heritage railway in Tottenham, Ontario, north of Toronto. Operating excursions since 1993, it is the oldest operating steam heritage railway in Ontario and features the second oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada.Excursions last about 50 minutes over 4 miles of track from Tottenham through the scenic Beeton Creek valley to Beeton and back. Although the trains stop in Beeton, passengers cannot disembark, as there is not a station there. The railway has plans to add a Beeton station, but as is common with many heritage railways, this sort of project is highly dependent on fundraising. The railway has two ex-Canadian Pacific steam locomotives, the best known being an 1883 4-4-0 A2m #136 . #136 helped build the transcontinental railroad, the Canadian ...
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  • 8. Kamloops Heritage Railway - Steam Train Kamloops
    The Kamloops Heritage Railway is a heritage railway in Kamloops, British Columbia. The railway operates throughout the year running trains within Kamloops. The train is pulled by restored steam locomotive Canadian National Railway 2141, the Spirit of Kamloops. 2141 was built in 1912 by the Canadian Locomotive Company, in Kingston, ON - built for the Canadian Northern Railway, prior to it being absorbed into the Canadian National Railway. She is a 2-8-0, 'Consolidation' class of steam locomotive built for branch line railways. Originally a coal burner, she was converted to burn oil in 1954, and retired from active duty in 1958. 2141 was sold to the City of Kamloops in 1961, and placed on display in Riverside Park until restoration work began in 1995. The restoration was completed in 2001, a...
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  • 9. Prairie Dog Central Railway Winnipeg
    The Prairie Dog Central Railway is a heritage railway just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Regular trips are every Saturday, Sunday and Holiday Monday from May through September, and last almost four hours with one stop in the rural community of Grosse Isle. Special dinner excursions occur during the season, as well as the Howlin' Halloween Express Trains in October. Details of the operations can be found by reviewing the schedules. Private Charters, School Programs and Engineer for a Day are also available.
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  • 10. White Pass & Yukon Railway Carcross
    The White Pass and Yukon Route is a Canadian and U.S. Class II 3 ft narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has no direct connection to any other railroad. Equipment, freight and passengers are ferried by ship through the Port of Skagway, and via road through a few of the stops along its route. The railroad began construction in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush as a means of reaching the goldfields. With its completion in 1900, it became the primary route to the interior of the Yukon, supplanting the Chilkoot Trail and other routes. The route continued operation until 1982, and in 1988 was partially revived as a heritage railway. In 2018, it was announced that the railway would be bought by Carnival Cruise L...
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  • 13. The Royal Hudson Steam Train North Vancouver
    The Canadian Pacific Railway , also known formerly as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881. The railroad is owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001.Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, it owns approximately 20,000 kilometres of track all across Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves Minneapolis-St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and New York City in the United States. The railway was originally built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 , fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871. It was Can...
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  • 14. Falls Incline Railway Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the American state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge. From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls. The Horseshoe Falls lies on the border of the United States and Canada with the American Falls entirely on the United States' side, separated by Goat Island. The smaller Bridal Veil Falls are also on the United States' side, separated from the American Falls by Luna Island. Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America that has a vertical drop of more...
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