Established | 1994 |
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Location | Union Station, 123 Main St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Coordinates | 49°53′20″N97°8′3″W / 49.88889°N 97.13417°W |
Type | Railway museum |
Key holdings | Countess of Dufferin |
Collection size | 6 locomotives, plus rolling stock |
Founder | David Harris, Norman Leathers, Roger Letourneau |
Director | Grae Hughes, Christopher Robinson, Douglas Moberg, Gordon Leathers, Harold Davies and Douglas Bell |
President | Gary Stempnick |
Public transit access | Winnipeg Transit |
Nearest car park | Privately operated, surrounding station [1] |
Website | wpgrailwaymuseum.com |
The Winnipeg Railway Museum was a railway museum located on tracks 1 and 2 within the Via Rail-operated Union Station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Volunteers from the Midwestern Rail Association Inc., a non-profit organization founded in 1975, operated the museum.
The museum was affiliated with CMA, CHIN and Virtual Museum of Canada.
The mission of the museum was to explore the history of railways in Winnipeg and Manitoba. [2] The collection included the Countess of Dufferin [3] (the first locomotive on the Canadian prairies), various vintage railcars, [3] cabooses, a Jordan spreader from 1911, [3] the history and artifacts of the building of the Hudson Bay Railway to Churchill, Manitoba, [4] technical displays, and a HO scale model layout. [4] In 2015, restoration began on Winnipeg's last wooden streetcar (Car 356), to be displayed at the Winnipeg Railway Museum. [5]
The museum exhibit hall was located on disused platforms and tracks, where parked exhibition locomotives, carts, and portable buildings with model-train sets were on display. The staircase that led to the museum from the Via Rail station was the same one used for the platform when that section of the station was active.
Long-term plans may involve moving the Winnipeg Railway Museum elsewhere in Winnipeg to make way for a rapid transit hub station. [6] The museum closed at the end of 2021 to prepare for necessary renovations. [7] Its future remains unknown.
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