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Indiana - Indiana Transportation Museum
Noblesville, IN - Welcome to the Indiana Transportation Museum. Ride aboard our vintage equipment, and let our streamlined passenger cars take you to the simpler times of yesteryear when railroads reigned. Discover the rich railroad history of our great state of Indiana, and how the railroads transformed America. This is more than a museum - we are a fully operational railroad. So climb aboard, be our guest, and experience with your friends and family what it was like to travel by these magnificent machines. Come take a ride with us.
Info: URL: https://www.itm.org/ (Added: 29-Jan-2001)
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Indiana - Indianapolis Children's Museum
Indianapolis, IN - Discover Trains Big and Small. All Aboard!
Imagine the adventures that the impressive Reuben Wells, a 35-foot-long, 55-ton steam engine had in its day. Travel back to 1890s Madison, Indiana where this very engine conquered the steepest railroad grade in the United States. The most powerful locomotive in the world back then, the Reuben Wells is right here at The Children's Museum for you to enjoy along with our other train experiences.
Info: URL: https://www.childrensmuseum.org/exhibits/all-aboard (Added: 27-Oct-2016)
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Indiana - Jefferson County Historical Society
Madison, IN - The Jefferson County Historical Society is located in heart of the National Historic Landmark District of downtown Madison, Indiana. Madison, founded in 1809, is well known for its preserved 19th century architecture, railroad history, and its beautiful riverfront on the Ohio River. It was once a busy steamboat port, and was the terminus of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, the first railroad in Indiana.
The Heritage Center offers visitors a permanent exhibit gallery featuring Jefferson County and Madison history, a restored 1895 railroad station, a wooden caboose, and a Children's Education facility. Also in the Heritage Center is our Research Library which makes available to researchers our collections of genealogy, maps, early government records, photographs, and other materials.
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Indiana - Jefferson County Historical Society
Madison, IN - Adjacent to the museum is the railroad station, an 1895 Victorian gem noted for its octagonal waiting room, which is over two stories tall and capped by a series of stained glass windows. Inside the station are displays telling the story of the Madison and Indianapolis R.R., the first railroad in Indiana. The history of the famous Madison Incline railroad cut is told with a working scale model of the Incline, and an interactive computer animation, created by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, of the 1868 hill-climbing locomotive "Reuben Wells"
Info: URL: http://www.jchshc.org/museums.html (Added: 21-May-2001)
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Indiana - Linden Depot Museum
Linden, IN - The Linden Railroad Museum is adjacent to the present-day Indianapolis-Chicago mainline of the CSX Railroad (formerly the Monon) and the abandoned and removed Norfolk Southern Railroad (formerly the Nickel Plate).
The depot, built in 1907, is the oldest intact junction depot in Indiana and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The depot has been restored to the 1950-era of railroading and is operated as a museum by the Linden-Madison Township Historical Society.
Info: URL: https://www.visitmoco.com/attractions/linden-depot-museum-2/ (Added: 10-Jan-1999)
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Indiana - Monon Connection
Monon,IN - he Monon Connection Museum has been in the making since 1993. It began when Dale and Anne Ward acquired a railroad hopper car for the sign at the entrance to the stone quarry they owned in Francesville, Indiana. It has grown to what is now seen on the premises today, which totals over 6,000 items of railroad artifacts and memorabilia. On display are hundreds of handheld lanterns, over 40 brass steam locomotive bells, brass steam whistles, a full size and authentically furnished Illinois Central Railroad depot, dining car china and silver and other artifacts that were a part of everyday life on the railroad.
As the collection grew, Dale and Anne began to realize that the items being collected had been seen by very few people. They knew the importance of preserving the history of the railroad collectibles they had acquired and the Monon Connection began along with the Whistle Stop Restaurant. The Roundhouse Gift Shop was added in 2013 and is located on the museum grounds in an 1847 Pennsylvania Railroad Whistlestop Depot.
The Whistle Stop is adjacent to the museum and offers a full service menu along with a fully stocked salad bar. They offer homemade soups, a variety of sandwiches and dinner entrees, bakery fresh pies, top quality hand-dipped and soft-serve ice cream, all served in a railroad themed dining room.
Info: URL: https://www.facebook.com/Monon-Connection-and-Whistle-Stop-Restaurant-450829234950228/ (Added: 7-Dec-2005)
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Indiana - National New York Central Railroad Museum
Elkhart, IN - The National New York Central Railroad Museum, located in Elkhart, Ind., recaptures the glory days when the America's railroads were symbols of progress and goodwill ambassadors across the country. The Museum was founded in 1987 and is an ever-growing preservation site of both local and national railroad heritage pertaining to the New York Central System. The New York Central was once the second-largest railroad in the United States, with 11,000 route miles of track in eleven states and two Canadian provinces. Elkhart is a natural home for the Museum: the New York Central's Robert R. Young Yard (now Norfolk Southern Railway's Elkhart Yard) is the largest railroad freight classification yard east of the Mississippi River. Just as when the railroad first arrived in Elkhart in 1851, Elkhart functions as a vital link in the chain connecting the Atlantic Seaboard with the Midwest and beyond. The Museum's goal is to tell the story of the vast New York Central System, and its predecessors and successors into the modern era.
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Indiana - Salem Depot Museum
Salem, IN - New Albany & Salem Rail Road Exhibit at the John Hay Center - Salem, Indiana. A Division of The Washington County Historical Society
The stuff of dreams, now realized in one of the most modern, up-to-date railroad museums, The Depot transforms the great moments of a past era of Monon history into a reality to be remembered and enjoyed by countless visitors — those who remember they were once kids, and those who have the spark of adventure and intrigue that says they still are.
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