The Indiana Transportation Museum is a railroad museum located in the Forest Park neighborhood of Noblesville, Indiana, United States. It owns a variety of preserved railroad equipment, some of which still operate today.OverviewThe Indiana Transportation Museum is an all-volunteer not-for-profit museum dedicated to preserving and showcasing railroads of Indiana, and sharing the equipment and information with the public, as well as operating trains to show how people traveled across the country in the past.Heritage railroadThe Indiana Transportation Museum operates excursion trains on 38mi of a former Nickel Plate Road line, originally built for the Indianapolis and Peru Railroad and today owned by the Hoosier Heritage Port Authority, which is made up of the cities of Indianapolis, Fishers, and Noblesville, Indiana. At this time (June 2017), excursion service on the line has been suspended due to a dispute with the HHPA. The museum has submitted a proposal to the Port Authority, requesting authorization to resume service.The museum operates out of Forest Park in Noblesville and travels to the northern terminus of the line in Tipton, Indiana or to the southern terminus at approximately 39th Street in Indianapolis. The rail line extends further south but has been abandoned.The rail line originally connected to the Norfolk Southern railroad in Tipton, the CSX railroad in Indianapolis, and the Belt Railroad owned by Eli Lilly and Company. The railroad line had been operated as a freight railroad by the Indiana Rail Road, hauling coal to the Cicero power generating plant in Cicero, Indiana until the plant's conversion to natural gas in 2003.
