Northern Ontario Railroad Museum

Northern Ontario Railroad Museum

Established	1993
Location	Capreol in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Coordinates	46°42′33″N 80°55′27″W / 46.7092°N 80.9242°W / 46.7092; -80.9242
Type	Railroad museum
Website	www.normhc.ca

The Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre is a rail transport museum located in the community of Capreol in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The museum's mandate is to provide a unique and educational tourist attraction that preserves and displays the railroading past and heritage of Northern Ontario.

History

The Northern Ontario Railroad Museum & Heritage Centre was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1993. During the months of July and August, the museum initially operated out of the Caboose in Prescott Park with a display of railroad memorabilia. In 1997, the museum acquired the former home of the superintendent of Canadian Northern Railway and Canadian National Railway.

In 2012, the former Capreol fire hall was acquired by the museum. The fire hall was used actively until October 2010. Since it was built in 1923, it has served as the police station and jail, circuit court, temporary housing, council chambers, town offices, credit union and the fire station.^[1] The Fire Hall is also the location of the museum's library and offices. ^[2]

Prescott Park

Prescott Park, named for former mayor of Capreol Harold Prescott, holds the museums locomotive and rolling stock exhibit.

Train collection

The museum's train collection includes four locomotives, six pieces of rolling stock, as well as several mining cars, handcars, and speeders:

Locomotives:

Canadian National Railways CN 6077 1944 U-1-f Class MLW 4-8-4 steam locomotive
Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway #219 MLW 4-6-0 steam locomotive
INCO #101 1919 Westinghouse Electric locomotive
INCO #116 1948 General Electric locomotive

Rolling Stock:

Canadian National Railways caboose #77562 built in 1899
Canadian National Railways caboose #79231 built by Hawker Siddeley in 1967
Canadian National Railways rules instruction car #15019 built by Pullman Standard in 1912 for Intercolonial Railway
Canadian National Railways warehouse-baggage car #60049 built by National Steel Car in 1953
Canadian National Railways snow plow #55208 built in 1924
Canadian National Railways crane #50392
INCO hot metal car #5
INCO slag pot car