French Lick Scenic Railway

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The Indiana Railway Museum is a railroad museum located in French Lick, Indiana, United States dedicated to preserving and displaying artifacts related to the history of railroads in Indiana.


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Collection

The museum's collection includes more than 65 pieces of rolling stock and locomotives. The museum has three steam locomotives on display that are not operational and three operational diesel locomotives. Excursions are typically powered by a diesel locomotive. The excursion train consists of a Alco RS locomotive, 2 double decker passenger cars, 2 heavyweight passenger cars and an Illinois central caboose. Some excursions have 1st class cars and dome cars. The collection consist of

Number 208 2-6-0 steam locomotive

number 97 2-6-0 locomotive

a 0-4-0 switcher locomotive

A southern railway dome car

a chicago and northwestern dome car

a pluto water boxcar

a monon caboose

a monon observation car

a monon boxcar

a southen railway boxcar

3 green heavyweight passenger cars

an RPO car

an FL, WB & S passenger car

2 old disel locomotives

and much more.


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Rail line

The museum owns 16 miles of an ex-Southern Railway and Monon line running from West Baden Springs in Orange County, through French Lick, then southwest to the towns of Cuzco and Dubois in Dubois County.

The track beyond Dubois is operated by the Dubois County Railroad, a for-profit subsidiary of the museum.


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French Lick Scenic Railway

The museum operates the 10-mile stretch of the line between French Lick and Cuzco as a heritage railroad known as French Lick Scenic Railway.

Excursions are based on a 20-mile round trip through portions of the scenic Hoosier National Forest and the 2200 foot Burton Tunnel and takes approximately 2 hours.


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History

The Indiana Railway Museum was founded in 1961 in the Decatur County town of Westport, but moved in 1971 to Greensburg, and then in 1978 to its present location in French Lick.

Source of the article : Wikipedia



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