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Scenic Railroad Attractions In Ontario

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Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province accounting for 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is also Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by th...
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Scenic Railroad Attractions In Ontario

  • 1. Halton County Radial Railway Milton
    The Halton County Radial Railway is a working museum of electric streetcars, other railway vehicles, trolleybusses and buses. It is operated by the Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association . It is focused primarily on the history of the Toronto Transit Commission and its predecessor, the Toronto Transportation Commission , with a collection including PCC, and Peter Witt cars, earlier streetcars and Gloucester series and Montreal-built subway cars. The museum is open to the public, with rides on many of its vehicles. It is located between the villages of Rockwood and Campbellville in Milton, Ontario, Canada, along part of the Toronto Suburban Railway’s former right-of-way. The tracks conform to TTC’s gauge of 4 ft 10 7⁄8 in , 60 mm wider than 1,435 mm standard gauge. Vehicles f...
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  • 2. Waterloo Central Railway Waterloo
    Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo , and is adjacent to the city of Kitchener. Kitchener and Waterloo are often jointly referred to as Kitchener–Waterloo, KW, or the Twin Cities . While there were several unsuccessful attempts to combine the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, following the 1973 establishment of the Region of Waterloo there was less motivation to do so. At the time of the 2016 census, the population of Waterloo was 104,986.
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  • 3. Port Stanley Terminal Rail Port Stanley
    Port Stanley is a community in the Municipality of Central Elgin, Ontario, Elgin County, on the north shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of Kettle Creek. In 2016, it had a population of 2,148.
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  • 4. South Simcoe Railway Tottenham
    The South Simcoe Railway is a steam heritage railway in Tottenham, Ontario, north of Toronto. Operating excursions since 1993, it is the oldest operating steam heritage railway in Ontario and features the second oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada.Excursions last about 50 minutes over 4 miles of track from Tottenham through the scenic Beeton Creek valley to Beeton and back. Although the trains stop in Beeton, passengers cannot disembark, as there is not a station there. The railway has plans to add a Beeton station, but as is common with many heritage railways, this sort of project is highly dependent on fundraising. The railway has two ex-Canadian Pacific steam locomotives, the best known being an 1883 4-4-0 A2m #136 . #136 helped build the transcontinental railroad, the Canadian ...
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  • 7. Falls Incline Railway Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the American state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge. From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls. The Horseshoe Falls lies on the border of the United States and Canada with the American Falls entirely on the United States' side, separated by Goat Island. The smaller Bridal Veil Falls are also on the United States' side, separated from the American Falls by Luna Island. Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America that has a vertical drop of more...
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  • 9. Polar Bear Express Cochrane Ontario
    The Polar Bear Express is a Canadian passenger train operated by the Ontario Northland Railway in Northern Ontario. Service was introduced in 1964. While designated as a passenger train, the Polar Bear Express also carries specialized equipment including boxcars for canoes, snowmobiles and all terrain vehicles, chain cars for carrying cars and light trucks and baggage and express cars. In the past a special car for canoes was included but these are now carried in boxcars. It operates five days per week year-round and connects Cochrane with Moosonee. During the summer months there is an additional train on Sundays and the train often includes a full length dome car. Prior to 2012, the train carried a full dining car during the summer. The Polar Bear Express service was expanded on June 5, 2...
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