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Winnipeg Railway Museum. We’re very sorry we’re closed at the moment but, since you’re here, join us on a virtual walk. Take The Tour through our collection and travel through the world of powerful steam engines blasting their way through Canada’s wilderness.
Winnipeg is truly a railway city served by five different carriers. We have two Canadian transcontinentals, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National. We also have a visitor from the south with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Find out why railways are not only important but vital to the way we live.
Aug 24, 2022 · Winnipeg Railway Museum Renovation Updates. The museum now has a new roof, windows, sky lights and lighting. There have been leaks in the new roof but they were quickly repaired. Sunlight shining through the new windows lights up the museum in the afternoons.
The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club (WMRC) and VecTor Garden trains came together to offer a fun weekend of riding an in-door train, seeing different layouts, and an opportunity to purchase some train items.
Railways and History. Our museum is a treasure trove of artefacts that tell us stories about ourselves and our community. For example, The Countess of Dufferin rolled off the assembly line at the Baldwin Locomotive works in 1872.
Steam Locomotives – A bigger, faster, more powerful horse. The first railway locomotives used the power of steam pressure to drive the engine. A fire at the rear of the boiler heated water to boiling point and the resulting steam was fed into the big cylinders at the front.
Jul 12, 2022 · We are a historical railway museum where we are trying to preserve the history of the railway and its importance in making Canada a complete country by joining the east and west with the rails, to move product both ways.
News. 14 April 2022. Hello and welcome to the cyber version of the Winnipeg Railway Museum. If you can’t come to see us then here’s how we can come to see you. We’ve had websites before but this is the first time we’ve had one designed by a professional web developer.
Oct 21, 2023 · When most people think of a train, they still think of a caboose, the iconic “van” at the end of a string of cars. For over a century the caboose was the period at the end of the railway sentence. Our museum has three very different caboose types and my favourite is our Canadian National Pointe St Charles van, number 79553.
