Visit Heritage Park
1900 Heritage Dr. S.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2V 2X3
Email: info@heritagepark.ca
Phone: 403.268.8500
Railway Roundhouse
Closed
Hours of Operation
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Monday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Tuesday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Wednesday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Thursday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Friday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Saturday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Sunday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Exhibit Details
Category
Train
About the Railway Roundhouse
Heritage Park built this structure in order to provide proper facilities for the repair and maintenance of its locomotives, to showcase some of its rail exhibits indoors and to represent a typical Canadian Pacific Railway roundhouse used in Western Canada before 1915.
Heritage Park is equipped to do about 95 percent of its locomotive repairs and maintenance on-site. The other four stalls are used to house the Snowplow, Jordan Spreader, Caboose No. 437358 and Locomotive 2018, also known as the ‘Canmore Goat.’ The structures descending from the ceiling are called ‘Smoke Jacks.’ When locomotives are parked in the Roundhouse, their smokestacks are positioned under the Smoke Jacks, thereby venting any smoke directly outdoors. The Smoke Jacks in the repair and maintenance area are functional, however, the ones on the display side are just mock-ups.
Traditionally, the roundhouse would be in use 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Men in the roundhouse worked 12-hour days, six days a week. The Railway Roundhouse was financed by a grant from the Alberta Heritage Fund for Alberta’s 75th Anniversary and opened in 1981.
