Put yourself in the seat of an early rail traveler.

Fort Steele’s steam train ride is an astonishing experience, putting you in the seats of earlier adventurers who saw this spectactular countryside for the first time more than 100 years ago.

The train runs hourly from 11:30am-4:30pm in our summer season. It leaves Fort Steele Station for a 20 minute circuit through breathtaking scenery, stopping halfway at a viewing platform that offers a unique perspective of the townsite of Fort Steele and the Kootenay and St Mary Rivers below.

Steam Train Tickets:

• Adults/Senior/Youth - $10 + tax
• Child (6-12years) - $5 + tax
• 0-5 Years - Free

The Fort Steele Steam Railway is an operating museum which interprets the experience of branch-line rail travel to the logging, mining and ranching communities of the East Kootenays. In addition to riding on the steam train, visitors are invited to look at the historic railway equipment and stationary steam engines displayed outside the engine house. Our vintage locomotive “1077” is a source of fascination for our visitors and for Hollywood: it has been used in several movies shot north of the border. Tours of the Roundhouse and a variety of restored turn-of-the-century steam engines and equipment are available on request.