Surviving Steam Locomotives in Indiana, USA
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List of Steam Locomotives in Indiana, USA
| No. | Class | F.M. Whyte | Gauge | Railroad Line | Location | Status | Builder Info | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 (2) | 32 ton | 0-4-0ST | 4'-8½" | Flagg Coal (Solvay Process Works) | Gramling Locomotive Works, Ashley, IN | operational | Vulcan Iron Works (Wilkes-Barre) #3972v, 1930 | Named Hank. Restored to operation between 1991 and 2002. Taken out of service in June 2016 for a mandated 1,472-day inspection and overhaul. Returned to service in March 2017. |
| 85 (1) | 0-4-0ST | 4'-8½" | Jeddo Highland Coal (A.E. Dick) | Gramling Locomotive Works, Ashley, IN | operational | Vulcan Iron Works (Wilkes-Barre) #3885, 09/1928 | From Sullivan's Diner, Horseheads, NY. | |
| 7 | 0-4-2T | 4'-8½" | Coronet Phosphate | Gramling Locomotive Works, Ashley, IN | restoration | Alco (Cooke) #61585, 1920 | From Miami, FL. Being restored to operational condition. To be relocated to the Port Orange Railway Society, Port Orange, FL to operate on the St. Marys railroad. | |
| 126 | 0-6-0ST | 4'-8½" | Lehigh Valley Coal | Gramling Locomotive Works, Ashley, IN | operational | Vulcan Iron Works (Wilkes-Barre) #4139, 05/1931 | ||
| 18 | 2-6-0 | 4'-8½" | Lee Tidewater Cypress Co | Gramling Locomotive Works, Ashley, IN | stored | Baldwin #53234, 1920 | From Thompson Winery, Monee, IL, then the Illinois Railway Museum, Union, IL. To eventually be restored to operational condition. Missing its front truck. | |
| 333 | 0-6-0 | 4'-8½" | IC | New Era Railroad, Bluffton, IN | restoration | Alco (Cooke) #58999, 07/1918 | From Baton Rouge, LA. Then, Tioga, LA. Purchased by private party with a chance to be made operational again. Currently being restored in an undisclosed location in Ohio. | |
| 13 | 0-6-0T-T | 39½" | Louisville Cement | Thresherman Park, Boonville, IN | display | H.K. Porter #7117, 09/1928 | ||
| 11 | 0-4-0T | 4'-8½" | SW Portland Cement | Whitewater Valley Railroad, Connersville, IN | display | Vulcan Iron Works (Wilkes-Barre) #3492, 12/1924 | ||
| 6 | 0-6-0 | 4'-8½" | EBT | Whitewater Valley Railroad, Connersville, IN | display | Baldwin #30046, 1907 | ||
| 6894 | B-10w | 0-6-0 | 4'-8½" | NYC | Whitewater Valley Railroad, Connersville, IN | display | Alco (Pittsburg) #51245, 1912 | From the Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, Hagerstown, MD. It appears to be stored or displayed on a siding. |
| 3001 (909) | L-3a | 4-8-2 | 4'-8½" | NYC (T&P) | National NYC Railroad Museum, Elkhart, IN | restoration | Alco (Schenectady) #69338, 1940 | Displayed with PRR GG1 4882. Acquired by the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society in October 2024 for the purpose of restoring it to operating condition making it the only operating NYC steam locomotive and the only operating 4-8-2 in the USA. |
| 3042 | L-3b | 4-8-2 | 4'-8½" | NYC | National NYC Railroad Museum, Elkhart, IN | restoration | Alco (Schenectady), 1940 | Tender only. Used as an auxiliary water tender on the American Freedom Train and Chessie Steam Special behind Reading 2101, then damaged in a roundhouse fire in Russell, KY. Acquired by the FWRHS and to be used behind NYC 3001 in New Haven. |
| 12 (1416) | I-5A | 0-6-0 | 4'-8½" | WSG (CMStP&P) | Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN | display | CMStP&P (Milwaukee), 1908 | |
| 11 | 0-4-0T | 4'-8½" | IN&OH Gravel | Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, IN | display | Baldwin #61945, 1936 | ||
| 97 (1000) | 2-6-0 | 4'-8½" | Mobile&Gulf (US Vet Hospital) | Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, IN | display | Baldwin #58797, 1925 | ||
| 208 | 2-6-0 | 4'-8½" | FLWB&S (A&NR) | TVRHA, Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, IN | display | Baldwin #38093, 1912 | ||
| 765 (1330) | N-6 | 2-8-2 | 4'-8½" | EJ&E (DM&IR) | Gateway Park, Gary, IN | display | Baldwin #61080, 1929 | Last steam locomotive on the EJ&E. |
| 1 | 0-4-0F | 4'-8½" | Indianapolis Power & Light | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | stored | H.K. Porter #8266, 06/1950 | From the Indiana Transportation Museum, Noblesville, IN. Frame and running gear only. | |
| 125 | 0-4-0T | 600mm | A. Meyer | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | operational | Ceskomoravska Kolben Danek #1930, 1940 | From Czech Republic. | |
| 19B | 0-4-0T | ng | D&HR | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | gone | Once named India. Sold to individual in SE UK. | ||
| 99.3361 | 99 | 0-8-0 | 24" | Deutche Reichsbahn | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | stored | Orenstein & Koppel (Berlin) #13200, 1939 | From Germany. Needs boiler work. |
| 242 | 2-4-2 | 24" | C&O | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | operational | Sandley (Janesville), 1972 | From the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, IL. Not really a C&O locomotive. | |
| 17 (1) | 2-6-0 | 36" | United Fruit (Cia. Agricola de Guatemala) | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | restoration | H.K. Porter #6580, 10/1920 | From Gilmore Classic Car Museum, Hickory Corners, MI. Currently disassembled. | |
| 2 (22) | 2-6-0 | 36" | United Fruit | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | operational | H.K. Porter #4581, 03/1911 | From the Black Hills Central Railroad, Hill City, SD. Restored to operation in 2019. | |
| 1 | 2-8-0 | 24" | German Army | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | restoration | Arnold Jung (Kirchen) #2845, 1918 | Named Feldbahn. From the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, IL. | |
| 3 | 4-4-0 | 14" | Stet & Query Central | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | stored | Wagner & Sons Miniature Train Co, 1922 | Possibly from Chicago. Acquired by Elliott Donnelly. Overhauled at Sandley Light Locomotive Works in 1973. Donated to the Hesston Steam Museum in the 1970s. | |
| 1 | 4-6-4 | 14" | Stet & Query Central | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | operational | Wagner & Sons Miniature Train Co, 1939 | Built for Kiddieville Amusement Park, Niles, IL. Acquired by Elliott Donnelly. Donated to the Hesston Steam Museum in the 1970s. | |
| 4-6-4 | 14" | Kiddieland Limited | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | operational | Wagner & Sons Miniature Train Co, 1950 | From Kiddieland, Melrose Park, IL. | ||
| 4-8-4 | 14" | Kiddieland Limited | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | operational | Wagner & Sons Miniature Train Co, 1950 | From Kiddieland, Melrose Park, IL. | ||
| 7 | Shay3Tr | 36" | Oregon Lumber (New Mexico Lumber) | Hesston Steam Museum, Hesston, IN | operational | Lima #3345, 11/1929 | ||
| 35 | 0-10-0T | 4'-8½" | PRR (JM&I) | Children's Museum, Indianapolis, IN | display | JM&I, 1868 | Named Reuben Wells. Only surviving 0-10-0T type. | |
| 9 (38) | 0-4-0 | 36" | Carbon Limestone | Nappanee Power From The Past, Nappanee, IN | restoration | H.K. Porter #8217, 1949 | From the Petticoat Junction Railroad, then Warrior, AL. Being restored by Jerry LeCount. It is unclear where the locomotive actually is. It has been reported at La Porte and at Amish Acres (now The Barns at Nappanee). But that has now been auctioned. | |
| 1 (534) | B-7 | 0-6-0 | 4'-8½" | Lake Erie & Fort Wayne (Wabash) | FWRHS, Edgerton Rd, New Haven, IN | restoration | Alco (Rhode Island) #41174, 1906 | Named Nancy. Retired in 1957 and displayed in Swinny Park, Fort Wayne, IN. Undergoing a slow restoration to operational condition. |
| 765 | S2 | 2-8-4 | 4'-8½" | NYC&StL | FWRHS, Edgerton Rd, New Haven, IN | operational | Lima #8673, 1944 | Restored to operation in 1979. Taken out of service in 1993. Returned to operation in 2006. Masqueraded as C&O 2765 in October 1993 and NKP 767 in September 2016. |
| 767 (1970) | M-1 | 2-8-4 | 4'-8½" | RPCX (L&N) | FWRHS, Edgerton Rd, New Haven, IN | operational | Lima #9364, 05/1949 | Tender only (40966). From the Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, KY. Donated by the Seaboard System in 1984. Used as an auxiliary water tender for NKP 765. |
| 1 | 0-4-4T | 4'-8½" | Bock Lumber (Maddox Foundry & Machines Works) | Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, North Judson, IN | operational | Baldwin #32792, 05/1908 | Only operating standard-gauge Forney in North America. | |
| 2789 | K-4 | 2-8-4 | 4'-8½" | C&O | Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, North Judson, IN | display | Alco (Schenectady) #75202, 1947 | Cosmetic restoration completed in 2025. |
| 624 | H-6e | 2-8-2 | 4'-8½" | NYC&StL | Brooks Construction, Rich Valley, IN | dismantled | Lima #6314, 1922 | From the Hammond Park Dept, Hammond, IN. To be cosmetically restored by the Fort Wayne RR Historical Society. |
| 4 | 0-6-0T | 24" | Colonial Sugar / Lautoka Mill | Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation, Terre Haute, IN | stored | John Fowler #9463, 1903 | Exact location unclear. | |
| 5 | 0-6-0T | 24" | Colonial Sugar / Lautoka Mill | Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation, Terre Haute, IN | scrapped | John Fowler #9465, 1903 | Sold to Tony Hulman in 1965. Allegedly cut up for scrap. | |
| 4'-8½" | Wabash River, Terre Haute, IN | sunk | ||||||
| 4'-8½" | Wabash River, Terre Haute, IN | sunk | ||||||
| 4'-8½" | Wabash River, Terre Haute, IN | sunk |
Resources for Steam Locomotives in Indiana, USA
- View Indiana, USA page from www.steamlocomotive.info