• Lamps & Lanterns

• Pioneer Working & Living

• Tim Horton Museum

   The Cochrane Railway and Pioneer Museum, located across the road from the current train station, with all the sounds, sights and bustle, provides the ideal backdrop and location, for our T&NO (Temiskaming and Northern Ontario) locomotive # 137 and it's many artifacts that are housed in the three coaches and two CN cabooses. From steam engine to cabooses, it is a home to an abundance of railway memorabilia. Enjoy the trapper's cabin replica, antique photographs and display of the pioneer life in Cochrane.

The purpose of this museum is to preserve the three-dimensional picture of the pioneer railway and homesteading days - a tribute to the men and women who, within the present century opened Northern Ontario, itself an Empire bigger than the countries of many members of the United Nations.

Relive the recognizable wood and leather smells of the old trunks atop the baggage car along side our National Transcontinental Coach, and the mental vision of the hustle and bustle to beat that all-important second whistle that may well leave you, and your baggage on the platform.

Journey, (on a moving train) if you wish, from Cochrane north, for a trip to "the edge of the Artic." Modern trains take visitors on the Polar Bear Express to experience one of Canada's last frontiers. The journey will take you through the Cree ancestral homes, a spectacular and rugged country, to Moosonee and Moose Factory.  Then, when back in our Stationary Station, retrace the history of your journey through the many photographs of the steam trains that rolled over similar terrain in the early and mid 1900's, culminating with the last steam train, which left Cochrane on June 25th 1957.

Steam engines were remembered once again when Locomotive #137 was chosen to run at the TN&O centennial celebrations in1967, however in 1972, it was decided to decommission the loco, to a well deserved retirement in its present position.