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Engineer, the late Greg Kent brings the train in to the station area, for passengers at the P.E.I. Miniature Railway Station. The railway is a featured attraction at the Elmira Railway Museum.

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Part of one of the largest model railroad collections in Eastern Canada, at Elmira Railway Museum.
26 September 2003
Elmira, Prince Edward Island


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The Elmira Railway Museum was pleased to receive the Model Railway Collection of the late Robert Mepham of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. This is one of the largest collections in Eastern Canada. Mr. Mepham was and Economic Developer with the Federal Department of Industry and lived throughout Canada during his working life.

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Part of one of the largest model railroad collections in Eastern Canada, at Elmira Railway Museum.
26 September 2003
Elmira, Prince Edward Island


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The is only a small part of Mr. Mepham's collection. It is situated in its display building at the Elmira Railway Museum.

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Part of one of the largest model railroad collections in Eastern Canada, at Elmira Railway Museum.
26 September 2003
Elmira, Prince Edward Island


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Mr. Mepham was a talented hobbyist. Several of his models were fashioned after actual P.E.I. and C.N.R. structures from the past. The models are arranged on a large cut out map of Prince Edward Island.

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Model Railway at the Elmira Railway Museum
26 September 2003
Elmira, Prince Edward Island


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The layout for the model railway is in the shape of Prince Edward Island. The trains run continously across the "landscape", much as the regular train service did for over a century on the Island.

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Strawberry Social at the Elmira Railway Museum
28 July 2003
Elmira, Prince Edward Island


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Gordon Robertson
You could hear the train whistle for miles, anyone working in the fields or woods would know the time of day and what station the train was at just by the sound of the whistle. During World War II young men who joined the Armed Forces were stationed all over Canada. Trains were used to transport the young recruits to there new homes. They were given their train ticket and meal tickets for the trip out. At the end of the war it was quite a different trip back home, as the war was celebrated on the train from coast to coast by the men returning home.
Meeting the train was a big event in the lives of the rural people, trains not only brought freight and passengers it also brought communication by way of mail. The postmaster met the train often carrying the mail on his back 1/2 mile to the post office. The train station was also a very busy place, as many as ten freight cars would be lined up waiting for potatoes to be loaded.
Princess Elizabeth, who is now Queen Elizabeth nd Prince Phillip visited Prince Edward island on the Royal Train. One couple from England, who travelled the train from Liverpool to New Glasgow, found that the cars were much smaller and a more narrow gauge track was used.

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Entrance to the Rails to Trails at Elmira
31 August 2002
Elmira, Prince Edward Island


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Entrance to the Confederation Trail
The rails are gone, but the stories remain. The eastern entry to the Confederation Trail is found at the Elmira Railway Museum. Prince Edward Island's tip-to-tip trail, was developed on the abandoned railway lines and takes you into wetlands and hardwood groves, through quaint villages and along sparkling rivers.
In August, 2000, Prince Edward Island became the first province in Canada to complete its section of the Trans Canada Trail. Since then Island communities have been working to complete various sections across the province.

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The End of the Line
31 August 2002
Elmira, Prince Edward Island