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Latest Events 09'


World War 2 Re-Enactment Weekend
World War 2 Re-enactment weekend
Illiana Historical Association, please visit there site! [click here]




NKP 765
NKP 765 visiting the HVRM over Memorial Day weekend
NKP 765 heads westbound on Memorial Day, May 25 sporting large American Flags and the deep-tone whistle from C&O 2789. photo by Howard Wentz
Nickel Plate Road No 756 heads westbound past Grasselli Tower at HVRM on May 22, 2008. Photo by Fred Boyer
Dillabaugh Inc., of Crown Point, Indiana oversee work on Thursday, May 21 to set the top portion of Grasselli Tower onto the lower portion, which was moved in place a few days earlier. Photo by Don O'Barski.
HVRM members work diligently to install a new switch between HVRM and CKIN trackage. The new connection will enable HVRM tourist trains to enter CKIN trackage direct from the depot.
All switch materials and labor were donated and provided by HVRM and its volunteer members.


Work at the Museum!
Museum members work to level the new track inside the backshop extension. Making sure everything is in order is a key.
HVRM members are working hard to restore the Long Island coach, cleaning the seats is just one of the many tasks to take care of.
The museum is also home to a N scale representation of the town of North Judson, the way it use to look. The model railroad is located in the restored Army Troop car.
HVRM volunteers work on the restoration of G.E. Locomotive #11 for train rides this summer.
Backshop work continues on as volunteers install insulation and ceiling panels to the addition.
After receiving a new coat of paint the HVRM kitchen car, a former Nickel Plate Road Camp Car X58538 receives new stenciling. The car was built as Wheeling & Lake Erie boxcar No. 25310, in 1925.
Work continues to prep the exterior sides of coach car 2937. The car was built by Pullman Standard in 1955 for the Long Island Rail Road, and will receive a new coat of paint after installation of new windows. The car is on lease from Island Rail Preservation.



Latest Events 08'

HVRM Backshop Addition
A few late summer-fall photos of the re-erection process of the old locomotive barn removed from Monterey, Indiana. A track will enter this new addition from the west end, and the north track in the existing shop will be extended into the new addition.

Close up of the work [Click Here]


HVRM Backshop Addition
HVRM crews are in the process of re-erecting a 50' x 100' pole barn addition to the existing backshop. The pole barn was the 2- stall locomotive barn at Monterey, Indiana at the end of the former JK Line short line railroad. The railroad was removed and the right-of-way is now railbanked. HVRM took down the barn, board by board during early 2008.


HVRM Metra Cars
Metra Cars: The Chicago commuter railroad METRA donated these 4 retired bi-level commuter cars to Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum. Several of the cars could be serviceable for tourist train operations in the near future, with some modifications. The cars are ex-Illinois Central heritage.


HVRM Signal News
Three weeks ago – September 27th to be exact, the signal department placed yet another signal. This one has an amber lamp that flashes and a sign that lights up “No Right Turn”. Both are illuminated via a track circuit spanning across Mulberry Street, so it guards vehicular traffic when turning right onto Mulberry from the shop driveway. More work has been done. The switches at the east end of the museum grounds now have point detection, so that when lined for the sidings, the C&O signal displays red over yellow and the single searchlight shows red, (because the switches are lined against it). The last track circuit is scheduled to go in this Saturday, (October 18). Afterward, there will be very little to do outside of regular maintenance in the signal department. It’s taken over 6 years to get this far and as a result, 15 signals are fully operational. The next phase is still in the works with the acquisition of Grasselli tower. When the museum takes possession of it, the fun will start all over.

Now and then the signal dept at HVRM wishes to make modifications or some adjustments to a particular signal. Not a problem, the Orton crane is started and put into service, hosting the signal off its base and onto the ground for servicing.


HVRM Visits Hanna!



Governor Mitch Daniels presents a $450,000 grant check to Bruce Fingerhut for the North Judson/Monterey Rails to Trails project. He also took time to tour the HVRM and pose with the crew of 310.



Parents and children, in the "read to Ride" program from the LaCrosse community, gather for a group photo after riding the train from North Judson to LaCrosse and the new library site, July 1, 2008

It was a long windy hot-humid day in early June 2008, but members of the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum removed 26 trusses from the former locomotive barn at Monterey, IN. The barn is being relocated back to HVRM at North Judson, and will become a 50’ x 100’ extension to the west-end of the current backshop facility. Howard Ewen of LaCrosse donated his time, with his home-built boom rig to remove the building trusses.
Motor cars operated again during the 2008 North Judson Mint Festival. Here a father & son team provided rides to the public at HVRM, and then enjoyed a long motor car run on the Chesapeake and Indiana Railroad later that day.
The signal dept is hard at work restoring and testing railroad signal equipment. The Schultz team of John and Cheri find the work enjoyable and rewarding.


Amish visitors to the HVRM take a train ride.
Another Mothers day success!
The signal project at the museum is still moving forward as more signals are being placed. This one on the south end of the museum grounds.
Work continues on the turntable lead, as members level up the trackwork.