Classic route
Polar Bear Express
Cochrane → Moosonee · Canada
Polar Bear Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 299 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- Ontario Northland
- Train
- Ontario Northland coaches
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1932
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
No road reaches Moosonee. Ontario Northland’s lifeline train rolls 300 km of spruce and muskeg to tidewater on James Bay, canoes and pickups riding along.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6578291 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ontario Northland — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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