During the winter season, visitors can climb aboard the Rotary snowplow and learn how this machine cleared the tracks. Builted by the Montreal Locomotive works, this snowplow was used by the Canadian National between 1930 and 1960. Guided tour at 11:30 am, 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm.
"Special delivery"
Explore the daily postal service routine aboard a railway mailcar by taking part in the “Special Delivery, a brief history of the mailcar” activity. Discover the demanding job done by traveling postal clerks. Share the experience with your loved ones by writing them an Exporail postcard that you can mail. Bring your address book and set aside your keyboard for a pen! Saturdays and Sundays at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Interactive areas
Children and their parent learn about the people who make trains work. With a Museum guide, they discover the brakeman’s duties like building and taking apart trains or couple cars. Equipped with gloves, they can participate in the inspection of a freight car truck like a carman. They play the trackman and build a section of railroad. They can also imagine themselves at the controls in the streetcar, like the motorman. Presented at 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm.
"What’s in the box"
From January 31, Exporail presents the exhibit: « What’s in the box, our recent acquisitions ». For the first time, this exhibition will allow the public to see a hundreds archive documents and artefacts from our reserve. The exhibit is designed to encourage direct contact between children and Museum artefacts.
The most important Railway collection
Exporail presents over 40 vehicles in the Grand Gallery: streetcars, steam and diesel locomotives, passenger and freight cars. A guided tour is offered at 2:30 pm and provides an opportunity to view luxurious period cars and other rolling stock.
Rocky Mountain Express
A 15 minute presentation of an excerpt from a production currently being shot by Stephen Low, an Imax filmmaker of international repute. The selection features dazzling vistas and sound effects of the Canadian Pacific Railway's 2816 steam locomotive in action in the Canadian Rockies.
The Model train exhibit room
Young and old will enjoy the model train room. Espacially, the latest addition to our model train room, skillfully crafted by our volunteers, "Thomas the Tank Engine" from the popular children's television show broadcast in over 150 countries.
