Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum

The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located at 507 Mulberry Street in North Judson, Indiana.
==History==
The first railroad in town was the Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad Company constructed from Logansport to Valparaiso, Indiana, from 1858 through 1861. In 1865 it merged with the Chicago & Great Eastern Railway Company. Later, the line was purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The town had been called Brantwood, then changed to North Judson. The second railroad in town was the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad, the 3I route. It ran from Streator, Illinois, to North Judson. Begun in 1881 it reached South Bend, Indiana, in 1894. Later it was known as the New York Central Railroad.
The third line through town was the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad, built in 1881 through 1883. It was absorbed by the Erie Railroad. In 1902 the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad was built. It later merged with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
==Locomotive Roaster==
;Current Locomotives:
Number	Images	Heritage 	Type 	Builder 	Built	Status 	Notes
2789 	 	Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 	2-8-4 	American Locomotive Company	1947 	Display 	2789 is the biggest locomotive in the museum’s collection
1 	 	Bock Lumber Co. 	0-4-4T 	Baldwin Locomotive Works 	1908 	Operational	
6 	 	Coronet Phosphate Co. 	0-4-2T 	H. K. Porter 	1913 	Display 	
814 	 	Duluth Missabe and Iron Range	SD-M 	General Motors 	 	Operational	It was rebuilt from an SD9.
11 	 	Interlake Iron Corporation 	GE 95-tonner 	General Electric 	1952 	Operational	
509 	 	U.S. Army 	Whitcomb 44-tonner	Whitcomb Locomotive Works 	1941 	Display 	
310 	 	Erie Lackawanna Railway 	ALCO S1 	American Locomotive Company	1947 	Overhaul 	
818 	 	Chesapeake & Indiana Railroad	SD-M 	General Motors 	1959 	Operational	It was rebuilt from an SD9.
52 	 	Bangor and Aroostook Railroad	EMD BL2 	Electro-Motive Division 	1949 	Overhaul 	
56 	 	Bangor and Aroostook Railroad	EMD BL2 	Electro-Motive Division 	1949 	Overhaul 	
467 	 	Long Island Railroad 	RS-1 	American Locomotive Company	1950 	Operational	
==Trivia==
*The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum has a number of both steam and diesel locomotives on display.
*Some of the diesel switch engines are operational and are utilized as part of our tourist operation.
*At one time, a significant portion of the working population in North Judson was employed by one of the railroad companies in town.
*The non-profit museum is located at a former Erie Railroad facility.
*The museum is open Saturdays all year with train rides also available from May to October.
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