Exporail’s unique collection includes more than 160 railway vehicles, many of which are unique:

CPR 144 : the oldest surviving Canadian-built steam locomotive;


CPR 5935 - the largest steam locomotive built in Canada and the last to be built for a Canadian railway;

 

CNR 77 - their oldest diesel locomotive;


 

CNR 4100 - the most powerful steam locomotive in the entire Commonwealth at the time of its construction and a designated national historic site ;

 

A steam-powered rotary snowplow, a Canadian invention;

 

CPR 7000 – their first diesel locomotive;

CPR 4744 – a one of a kind Montreal Locomotive Works M-640 that was North America’s most powerful single engined diesel locomotive at the time of its outshopping;

CPR 2850 – “The” Royal Hudson (4-6-4 wheel arrangement) that was used on CP lines for the King & Queen’s visit in 1939;

 

 

The Saskatchewan, Sir William Van Horne's private car, designated as a national historic site;

 

10,000 small railway artifacts;


 

No. 350, the Rocket - Montreal's first electric streetcar;

Montreal Street Railways No. 274 – the very first railway or streetcar vehicle secured by the C.R.H.A.;

 

About 100 small-scale models of railway vehicles;


  Four buildings characteristic of railway infrastructure including a completely restored century-old station;

 

Montreal's first observation streetcar;


 

 

and finally more than 300,000 archive documents including drawings, old photographs, rare books, manuscripts and periodicals.