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MUSEUM

For our hours of operation, click on Live-Steam Train Rides.  We are open most weekends April-December, with many Special Programs throughout the year..
 
Our museum building contains an artifacts room, operating HO and Lionel train layouts, and a railroad gift shop with items for children and adults (such as railroad hats, postcards, T-shirts, books, detailed steam locomotive prints by artist Bill Berkompas, prints by local Artist Joe Ginther, and many other items). New! As of April 2011, we now have a selection of Chuggington items, as well as Thomas The Tank toys.

We also have a 20x30' conference room that is available for rent as either a meeting room or birthday party room.   

For more photos of building construction, click here.

 

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On the grounds of the museum visitors will find static displays of the following, which are slated for restoration by our volunteers:

 

  • Wooden Boxcar from the late 1800s
    (presently covered with tar paper to preserve)
    Donated by Pilkington, Rossford, Ohio.

 

 

 

  • 1940s Plymouth Switcher
    Donated by Rod Mosier, Plymouth, Ohio.

 

 

 

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  • B&O Caboose C2157
    Donated by Sumburger Drive-In,
    Chillicothe, Ohio; Owner:  W. E. Righter

    Click here to see photos of move.
    Click here for link to Sumburger Drive-In.

    Tours of the caboose are the first
    Sunday of June, July, & August, 1-4pm.
    Also during our Flag City Train Show and
    Tracks To The Past event.

 

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  • Hatton passenger/freight depot before
    disassembled and moved to our site.
    Donated by Mary Hemminger.
    Formerly on the T&OC Eastern Division.

    Click here for photos.

 

  • Switchman's shanty
    Donated by Elaine Setzler

    Click here for photos of restoration.

 

 

In 2006, The National Lime & Stone Company's Carey, OH plant kindly donated a 1937 Plymouth switcher to us. On April 29, 2011, the engine was moved to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, Inc. (home of Nickel Plate #765) under a lease agreement. Their volunteers will restore the switcher to make it operational in their railyard.



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