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Established. 1956. (1956) Hesston Steam Museum is an outdoor museum operated by the La Porte County Historical Steam Society in Hesston, Indiana. It is located at 1201 E 1000 N, La Porte, IN 46350. The museum occupies 155 acres and is the home of four different gauge railroads along with numerous other pieces of steam powered and vintage farm ...
640 ft (200 m) ZIP code. 46350. FIPS code. 18-33232 [2] GNIS feature ID. 436073 [1] Hesston is an unincorporated community in Galena Township, LaPorte County, Indiana.
The Dubois County Railroad (reporting mark DCRR) is a Class III short-line railroad serving Dubois County in southern Indiana, United States, and is a for-profit subsidiary of the Indiana Railway Museum, now better known as the French Lick Scenic Railway. The railroad branches off a Norfolk Southern line in Huntingburg and heads north to the ...
The Indiana Transportation Museum was an all-volunteer not-for-profit museum dedicated to preserving and showcasing railroads of Indiana, and sharing the equipment and information with the public, as well as operating trains to show how people traveled across the country in the past. Founded in 1960, ITM began life as the Indiana Museum of ...
Pages in category "Railroad museums in Indiana" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Hesston Steam Museum; Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum; I.
Indianapolis Contemporary, Indianapolis, dissolved in 2020 [47] John Dillinger Museum, Crown Point, closed in 2017 [48] Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Fort Wayne. The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, closed June 30, 2008 [49] Morris-Butler House, Indianapolis, no longer open for public tours.
The railroad originally consisted of a 22.3 mile line between the Indiana communities of Cannelton and Santa Claus that the Port Authority purchased from Norfolk Southern in 1991. The line had been unused since the mid-1980s and Norfolk Southern was considering abandonment prior to the Port Authority's purchase.
The Indiana Railway Museum was founded in 1961 in the Decatur County town of Westport with one locomotive and three passenger cars. The museum relocated to Greensburg and then in 1978 to French Lick after the Southern Railway deeded a total of sixteen miles of right of way stretching from West Baden, Indiana, approximately one mile north of French Lick, to a small village named Dubois, to the ...