The museum now has a new roof, windows, sky lights and lighting.  There have been leaks in the new roof but they were quickly repaired.  Sunlight shining through the new windows lights up the museum in the afternoons. We have purchased and assembled better storage for many of our documents. We are in the process(read more…)

It’s been a while since we’ve published a blog. I’m delighted that we’re breaking a long silence with a first piece written by one of our up and comers, Luca Matyas. Luca is finishing up high school this year and splits his spare time between the Winnipeg Railway Museum and the Prairie Dog Central. He’ll(read more…)

It’s been a while since we’ve posted on our blog space. Thank you for your patience and, as a treat, we have a guest blog from Paul Ulrich, the social media coordinator from our good friends at the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club. He says Jason Shron from Rapido Trains is coming to Winnipeg for a(read more…)

There are a number of skills that were once commonplace but are now practiced by very few. Sailing a tall ship is one of them. Firing a steam locomotive is another. When we were open, I’d show people around the Countess of Dufferin’s cab and I’d talk about the science and the art of firing(read more…)

It’s September and that means the Mega Train Hobby Show and Sale is on and slated for September 24th and 25th at Red River Exhibition Place, 3977 Portage Avenue. Susan Dorge, secretary at the Winnipeg Railway Museum and one of the major Mega Train organizers wrote our guest blog this time. Take it away Susan.(read more…)

We have a guest blog this week. My brother Graham was a summer student in our museum just after it opened. In fact, he may have been the first full time interpretive guide the museum had. He’s been back and forth between Winnipeg and Minneapolis where he was an interpretive naturalist for both the Sea(read more…)

My job sometimes takes me on the road and this time it was a field crop demonstration close to Roblin, Manitoba. On the way home I stopped at Inglis and took a tour of Prairie Giants, a row of five beautifully preserved wooden grain elevators at the end of an abandoned railway line. Just like(read more…)

Today we have a guest blog written by Gary Stempnick, our president. He’d like to tell you about our current state and what we would like to see over the next year or so. Hello to all of you reading our blog. I hope you have taken a tour of our new website. I would(read more…)

Hello and welcome to the cyber version of the Winnipeg Railway Museum. If you can’t come to see us then here’s how we can come to see you. We’ve had websites before but this is the first time we’ve had one designed by a professional web developer. We asked Kyle of Cyberprairie to come up(read more…)