Elmira Station served as the eastern terminus of Prince Edward Island’s railway and now preserves the province’s railroading history for residents and visitors to discover.

Learn the story of railroading on the Island through photographs, maps, material and cultural objects, and the original station master’s office.

Take a ride through the woods on our trackless electric train – a wonderful experience for kids an adults alike – then ride the ‘wye’ in a 1986 Fairmount speeder train car along the original track used since the mid-1930s to turn the train at Elmira Station.Home to the PEI Miniature Railway representing railroading on PEI in its early days, and one of Atlantic Canada’s largest model train collections displaying over 200 HO scale models. Enjoy a reading nook where visitors can quietly browse through a large resource library with over 1900 railway-related titles.

Elmira Railway Museum also showcases many items from the retired CN ferry, the Abegweit. For many decades, the trains helped connect passengers to the CN ferries which took people and goods from PEI to the mainland and return. A documentary video shows a CN locomotive loading on the ferry leaving PEI for the last time in December 1989.

On display, is CN Caboose #78431, built from a railway box car in 1943. Visitors can explore the interior, which is used for children’s programming. The Elmira Railway Museum is one of seven provincial heritage sites administered by the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation. You can purchase Heritage Passports that grant access to all seven provincial sites, with senior, student, and family rates available.

Our Gift Shop stocks railroad souvenirs and a wide variety of crafts made by Island artisans. Stay tuned for opening day in 2025.