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Prescott Park, named for the former mayor of
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Northern Ontario Railroad Museum & Heritage Centre was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1993. During July and August, the museum initially operated out of the CN Caboose #77562 in Prescott Park with a small display of railroad memorabilia. In 1997, the museum acquired the former
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Opened May 2, 2017, the heritage centre also now features a railroad simulator, created and installed by RSI Simulators. Included in the admission price, visitors can use the simulator and experience the basics of train operation, with the scenery used based on a
Northern Quebec area and a planned
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Capreol yard and scenery around the town. The simulator is set to "arcade mode" to enable visitors to operate it with ease, however, the ability to operate in full "engineer" mode is also possible (the same setting used to train CN employees in the nearby yard).
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Heritage Centre also holds the museum's newest attraction, a 1000 sq. ft. HO scale model railroad layout. Deemed the largest in Northern Ontario, the layout took 2 years to complete (construction began in December 2015) and has been hand-built,
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