Railway Museum of British Columbia

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Who's ready to CHOO CHOO Choose a great family day out in Canada? You are? Great! Then why not CHOO choose the Railway Museum of British Columbia in Squamish where you have 12 acres of railway fun!

Opened back in 1994, this family friendly experience lets you have a locomotive experience whilst surrounded by cotton woods and cedars. Nice to be out in nature too!

Now, you can see the second largest railway collection in the whole of Canada, and enjoy tours of their vintage locomotives in various stages of restoration. Some of them are as old as the late 1890s!

There are around 90 pieces of heritage railway rolling stock within the collection, in addition to a significant collection of amazing railway related items.

Train travel is such an important part of Canadian history, that here you can really see how it has developed, and really served a number of train journeys across the country.

Of course, when you're in the Railway Museum of British Columbia, you might be wanting to have a ride on an actual train!

They do have tours available around the locomotives, but they also have fun experiences such as the Polar Express tours, where kids can ride a train for real! They also have a mini rail which is open seasonally.

Train fun, historic fun, and kids fun is all waiting at the Railway Museum of British Columbia in Canada - you know you want to choo choo choose it for your next family day out!