The Elgin County Railway Museum is a rail transport museum in St. Thomas, Ontario

St. Thomas, Ontario

St. Thomas is a city in southern , Ontario, Canada. It is the seat for Elgin County and gained its city charter on March 4, 1881.-History:...

. It is housed in the former Michigan Central Railroad

Michigan Central Railroad

The Michigan Central Railroad was originally incorporated in 1846 to establish rail service between Detroit, Michigan and St. Joseph, Michigan. The railroad later operated in the states of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada...

 locomotive shops (built 1913) that were part of more extensive servicing facilities on the Canada Southern Railway

Canada Southern Railway

The Canada Southern Railway was a railway in southern Ontario, Canada, founded on February 28, 1868 as the Erie and Niagara Extension Railway. It adopted the Canada Southern Railway name on December 24, 1869. In 1904 the railway was leased to the Michigan Central Railroad for 99 years; in 1929 it...

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Collection

The museum collection includes five locomotives:

1. Canadian National Railway #5700 steam 4-6-4
   4-6-4
   Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-6-4 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles , six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles, and four trailing wheels on two axles .Other equivalent classifications are:UIC classification:...
   
    "Hudson"
2. Wabash
   Wabash Railroad
   The Wabash Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated in the mid-central United States. It served a large area, including trackage in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri and Ontario. Its primary connections included Chicago, Illinois, Kansas City, Missouri, Detroit,...
   
    #51 GE 43-ton switcher
3. Canadian Pacific Railway
   Canadian Pacific Railway
   The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...
   
    #8921 RSD-17 (the only one ever made)
4. London and Port Stanley Railway
   London and Port Stanley Railway
   The London and Port Stanley Railway is a historic Canadian railway located in southwestern Ontario.The L&PS linked the city of London with Port Stanley on the northern shore of Lake Erie, a distance of approximately ....
   
    GE boxcab electric #L1
5. Canadian National Railway
   Canadian National Railway
   The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad"....
   
    #9171 EMD F7Au
   EMD F7
   The EMD F7 was a Diesel-electric locomotive produced between February 1949 and December 1953 by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors and General Motors Diesel . It succeeded the F3 model in GM-EMD's F-unit sequence, and was replaced in turn by the F9. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La...
   
    (built as EMD F3
   EMD F3
   The EMD F3 was a , B-B freight- and passenger-hauling diesel locomotive produced between July 1945 and February 1949 by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant...
   
    as GTW
   Grand Trunk Western Railroad
   The Grand Trunk Western Railroad is an important subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway , constituting the majority of CN's Chicago Division ....
   
    #9013, converted 1973, retired 1989)

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.