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Diana B Earle
5 Sherwood Springs Rd
Mallorytown Ontario
Canada
K0E 1R0

613 345-3077

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45 minute drive to the Smiths Falls Canadian Northern Railway station which the museum is housed in, was the last major station built by the CNR on its Toronto to Ottawa line. The Line was completed in 1913 and the station was officially opened in 1914. The route from Ottawa serviced Smiths Falls, Portland, Chaffeys Locks (on the Rideau Canal) Sydenham, Harrowsmith and Napanee and beyond to Toronto

The museum has over 10,000 items in its collection of artifacts. Some of the artifacts you can see:

Outside the station:

•1912 Steam Locomotive #1112
•1957 Canadian Pacific diesel locomotive #6591
•Automobile boxcars
•Cabooses
•Wickham track inspection cars
•1947 Canadian Pacific Cadillac track inspection car
•Dental Car used in Northern Ontario to service remote communities
•Nolans Flagstop station

Inside the station:

•Waiting room with paintings, photographs and displays
•Operators Bay with working telegraph equipment

The Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge
The Scherzer Rolling lift Bridge is privately owned (not by the museum) and was built by the Canadian Northern Railway and used during the same time period as the museum