Prairie Dog Central Railway

The Prairie Dog Central Railway is a heritage railway just outside of Winnipeg.

Regular trips are every Saturday, Sunday and Holiday Monday from May through September, and last almost four hours with two stops totalling just over two hours. Special dinner excursions occur in July and September, as well as Howlin' Halloween and Santa Trains in October, November and December. Details of the operations can be found by reviewing the schedules.

History

Initiated in 1970 by The Vintage Locomotive Society Inc., the first operations were in July, 1970. From 1970 – 1974, the train operated out of Charleswood on the now-abandoned Canadian National Cabot Subdivision. From 1975 to 1996 the train operated out of St. James, immediately west of Polo Park on a now abandoned Canadian National Railways line.

In 1999 the station, now a Federal Heritage Site, was moved to its present location at Inkster Junction in Rosser. The Vintage Locomotive Society Inc. purchased the former Oak Point Subdivision from Canadian National Railways in 1999. Originally constructed between 1905 and 1910 by Mackenzie & Mann for the Canadian Northern Railway, it became part of the cross-Canada Canadian National Railways system in 1923.

The subdivision is connected to Canadian Pacific Railway’s east-west main line and the portion of the former subdivision used by the Prairie Dog Central extends to about ...
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