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Exporail

Address: 110 rue St-Pierre, St-Constant, QC, J5A 1G7 | Map It
Phone: 450/632-2410
www.exporail.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: St-Constant

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You can rattle around Canada's largest railway museum in a vintage tram specially built in the 1950s for sightseeing tours in Montréal when the city still had a streetcar system. The museum has more than 150 locomotives, but if you're a steam buff, you won't want to miss CPR 5935, the largest steam locomotive built in Canada, and CNR 4100, the most powerful in the British Empire when it was built in 1924. To see how the rich and powerful traveled, take a look at Sir William Van Horne's luxurious private car. Of special interest to the kids will be the car that served as a mobile classroom. The museum is south of the city in the town of St-Constant. On several summer Saturdays, rail buffs can take the Museum Express, which leaves from the Lucien-L'Allier suburban train station, in the west end of Centre Bell. Trains depart at 11 AM and return at 4 PM.

Cost: C$14, with Museum Express excursion C$32
Open: Mid-June-mid-Sept., daily 10-6; early Sept.-Oct., Wed.-Sun. 10-5; Nov.-mid-May, weekends 10-5

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