Polar Bear Express Coach @ Toronto, Ontario (1982)
Pullman Standard Lightweight "PM" 60-seat coach
ex-N&W 1727
Spadina yard
Note: That isn't fog obscuring the left side of the car, but escaping steam.
The Polar Bear Express is a Canadian passenger train operated by the Ontario Northland Railway in Northern Ontario. Service was introduced in 1964. While designated as a passenger train, the Polar Bear Express also carries freight and is equipped with specialized equipment including boxcars for canoes, snowmobiles and all terrain vehicles, chaincars (flat cars with tie downs) for carrying cars and light trucks (there are no roads to Moosonee so vehicles come in and out by train) and baggage and express cars. In the past, a special car for canoes was included but these are now carried in boxcars.
It operates five days per week year-round and connects Cochrane with Moosonee. During the summer months there is an additional train on Sundays and the train often includes a full-length dome car. Prior to 2012, the train carried a full dining car during the summer.
Polar Bear Express Coach @ Toronto, Ontario (1982)
Pullman Standard Lightweight "PM" 60-seat coach
ex-N&W 1727
Spadina yard
Note: That isn't fog obscuring the left side of the car, but escaping steam.
The Polar Bear Express is a Canadian passenger train operated by the Ontario Northland Railway in Northern Ontario. Service was introduced in 1964. While designated as a passenger train, the Polar Bear Express also carries freight and is equipped with specialized equipment including boxcars for canoes, snowmobiles and all terrain vehicles, chaincars (flat cars with tie downs) for carrying cars and light trucks (there are no roads to Moosonee so vehicles come in and out by train) and baggage and express cars. In the past, a special car for canoes was included but these are now carried in boxcars.
It operates five days per week year-round and connects Cochrane with Moosonee. During the summer months there is an additional train on Sundays and the train often includes a full-length dome car. Prior to 2012, the train carried a full dining car during the summer.