Locomotives and Rolling Stock
The railway currently owns around 25 diesel locomotives, and roughly 700 items of rolling stock. One of its more unusual pieces of rolling stock is a canoe car, which is in service in the summer, as part of the Polar Bear Express passenger train. The car can hold up to eighteen canoes. Canoeists can put their canoes on this car as part of their baggage although canoes are often stowed in boxcars. It is the only known train car specifically designed for transporting canoes and kayaks.
In 1977, the railway purchased four RAm/DE train sets retired from the Trans Europ Express by the Dutch and Swiss railways, for use on its Northlander train. However, the experiment was not entirely successful. The locomotives were scrapped in 1984, although the passenger cars survived until the early nineties. These surviving passenger cars were pulled by rebuild Canadian locomotives. The rear end of the locomotives was altered to fit to original cars. With the Canadian locomotives the control car / DVT lost their function
Many passenger cars used on ONR trains today are former single level GO Transit cars that were extensively refurbished after being used for commuter service around Toronto.
In 2004, Ontario Northland purchased ten passenger cars including dome cars from BC Rail and has used some of them on the Polar Bear Express service between Cochrane and Moosonee.
- Highball steam engine
- 4-6-2 steam engine (#701) - stored in Englehart
- Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) F7B
- General Motors Diesel (GMD) FP7
- GMD GP9
- GMD GP38-2
- GMD GP40-2
- GMD SD40-2
- GMD SD75I
- Montreal Locomotive Works
- MLW RS-10
- MLW RS-2
- MLW RS-3
- MLW S-4
- MLW S-2
- American Locomotive Company (ALCO) RS-2
- Hawker Siddeley Canada corrugated coach
- PM-class coach
- Budd dome coach
- Budd lounge car
- Budd lunch counter car
- TEE Trainset (No longer on roster, some cars have been shipped back to Europe, currently based in the Netherlands) One partial set exists still but belongs to the city of North Bay. Parked at the old CP station off Oak Street. This set contains one standard car and a control car / DVT
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