page_title: Ontario Northland Railway
section_title: Locomotives and rolling stock
hierarchical_section_title: Ontario Northland Railway / Locomotives and rolling stock
caption_attribution_description: Ontario Northland train crosses the Missinaibi River at Mattice-Val Côté, Ontario.
context_page_description: The Ontario Northland Railway is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a provincial Crown agency of the government of Ontario.
  Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming and Lake Nipissing areas, the railway soon became a major factor in the economic growth of the province. After decades of difficult construction through the Canadian Shield, workers reached James Bay in 1932. While blasting the route through the shield, geologists discovered deposits of valuable minerals such as gold, silver, copper and nickel. The railway also made it possible to exploit the timber resources of Northern Ontario.
  Its north–south mainline is located entirely in Ontario, starting at its southern terminus at North Bay, running northward through Cobalt, New Liskeard, Cochrane, and on to its northern terminus at Moosonee, several miles south of the shore of James Bay. There is one major branchline running eastward from Swastika through Kirkland Lake and over the Quebec border to end at Rouyn-Noranda. The railway's branch from Swastika to Rouyn-Noranda, including 40 kilometres of track in Quebec, is operated by a subsidiary, the Nipissing Central Railway.
context_section_description: The railway currently owns about 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 18 canoes. Canoeists can put 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 1990s. These surviving passenger cars were pulled by rebuilt Canadian locomotives (EMD FP7). 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 – ex-Temiskaming & Northern Ontario No. 119 (later as 219) built in 1907 and Normetal 1938, then acquired by ONR in 1975 and sold to Northern Ontario Railway Museum
  4-6-2 steam engine (No. 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 – single deck coach acquired from GO Transit
  PM-class coach
  Budd dome coach
  Budd lounge car
  Budd lunch counter car
  Werkspoor/Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft TEE Trainset (No longer on roster, some cars have been shipped back to Europe, currently based in the Netherlands)
caption: Crossing the Missinaibi River at Mattice-Val Côté
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