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Saskatchewan Railway Museum

S7H 5N9 Saskatoon, Canada (Saskatchewan)

Address Pike Lake Rd.
Trans-Canada Hwy 60 
 
Floor area 28 000 m² / 301 389 ft²  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Railway
  • Typewriter, calculating and coding
  • Trams
  • Railway Technique
  • Telephone / Telex
  • Industry / Production Technology


Opening times
middle of May to Labour Day weekend: Friday - Sunday and holiday Mondays only: 10am - 5pm

Admission
Status from 07/2016
Adult: $6; Students (6 to 16): $4

Contact
Tel.:+1-306-382-98 55  eMail:srha saskrailmuseum.org  

Homepage www.saskrailmuseum.org

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Location / Directions
N52.078727° W106.814994°N52°4.72362' W106°48.89964'N52°4'43.4172" W106°48'53.9784"

The Saskatchewan Railway Museum is located south west of Saskatoon on the Pike Lake highway, just 3 kms off the highway to Calgary. If you are coming from the South Circle Drive Bridge, take the highway toward the Berry Barn and turn right at the first major turnoff, Hodgson Road and travel until you meet the Pike Lake Highway. The museum is at or near that junction. Watch for railway tracks.

Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Saskatchewan Railway Museum is operated by the Saskatchewan Railroad Historical Association (SRHA) and was opened 1990.
 

Buildings

The buildings are former railway stations and service buildings moved to the site from other parts of Saskatchewan.

Canadian Northern Railway
Six Person Bunkhouse circa 1919 from Maymont; now used as a gift shop.
Brisbin Station circa 1918 Originally used in Debden before being moved to Brisbin.
Borden Tool Shed

Canadian Pacific Railway
Register Building Built 1915, Cory
New Humboldt Tool Shed
Old Humboldt Tool Shed
Outlook Tool Shed built 1915

Canadian National Railway
Nutana Engineman’s Bunkhouse, now used as the museum centre.

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Oban Interlocking Tower

Unity Express Shed built 1919
Agro Station, built 1913
 

Locomotives

Canadian Pacific S-3 locomotive originally built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1957 to a design originally developed by the American Locomotive Company. Between 2001 and 2006 the S-3 was restored and painted in original period colours and is now on display.

A smaller General Electric 23 ton diesel electric locomotive built in 1941. This unit was originally used by the US Army and US Air Force before being purchased by SaskPower for use on the A. L. Cole site. This is augmented with a Canadian Pacific Trackmobile built by Whiting Corporation in 1957.

Street cars

The Saskatoon Municipal Railway operated street cars from New Year’s day 1913 until 1951. The museum has three street cars. Car 40 built by the Preston Car Company in 1911 was originally used in Calgary before being obtained by Saskatoon in 1919.

Car 51 built by National Steel Car in 1927 operated in Saskatoon until the end of street car service.
Both of these cars have been restored to original colours.

Car 203 was built by the Cincinnati Car Company in 1918 and was in service with the Cleveland, Ohio and the city of London, Ontario before being purchased by Saskatoon. Restoration on this car has not started. The interior of Saskatoon Municipal Railway streetcar No. 203 at Saskatchewan Railway Museum. Saskatoon Municipal Railway streetcar No. 203 at Saskatchewan Railway Museum.
 

Passenger and freight service cars

The Canadian Pacific Kirkella is on display. The Kirkella was built by the Pullman Company in 1913 as a first class sleeper car; it was in regular service until 1956 when it was converted for use on a work train as a carman’s sleeper. The car was used when filming the Summer of the Monkeys movie.

The museum has Canadian Pacific and Canadian National box cars, flat beds and a hopper car on display. A Cominco tanker car is also on display.
 

Special cars

The museum has two snow ploughs on display. The Canadian Pacific car was manufactured in 1913, while the Canadian National car was manufactured in 1927.

The museum has speeder cars, wash cars and boarding cars used by work crews on display. Also on display is a 300 horsepower (220 kW) diesel emergency generator car built by Canadian Car and Foundry in 1928 and owned by SaskPower.


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