If you love trains, climbing on them, riding them and learning about their history, then you have to come and visit St. Thomas the Railway Capital of Canada. Many railways, London and Port Stanley, Michigan Central, Wabash, Grand Trunk, Pere Marquette, and Canadian Pacific came through St. Thomas. In 1906 they report some46 trains daily.
Year round you can visit the Canadian Southern Railway Station built in 1871 and lovingly being renovated back to its former glory. The Railway Museum is close by in the former Michigan Central Railway Repair Shops, built in 1913. The museum has locomotives, cabooses, passenger and luggage cars that you can see up close.
Come and visit us and take in Railway Nostalgia Days in June 23 and 24, 2012. Thomas the train arrives in July when the Museum sponsors Day Out with Thomas July 13-15. July 20-22.
You can get a ride on the Port Stanley Terminal Railway. It runs on a portion of the tracks of the former London and Port Stanley Railway.
St. Thomas and Elgin County are a must for all railroad enthusiast, young or old.