Elgin County Railway Museum

The Elgin County Railway Museum is a rail transport museum in St. Thomas, Ontario. It is housed in the former Michigan Central Railroad locomotive shops (built 1913) that were part of more extensive servicing facilities on the Canada Southern Railway.

Collection

The museum collection includes five locomotives^[1]:

1. Canadian National Railway #5700 steam 4-6-4 "Hudson"
2. Wabash #51 GE 43-ton switcher
3. Canadian Pacific Railway #8921 RSD-17 (the only one ever made)
4. London and Port Stanley Railway GE boxcab electric #L1
5. Canadian National Railway #9171 EMD F7Au (built as EMD F3 as GTW #9013, converted 1973, retired 1989)^[2]

Several passenger and freight cars are also preserved, either inside the building or outside. There is also an H0 scale model railroad that recreates scenes from the area.

Images

External links

• Elgin County Railway Museum website

References