About

The National New York Central Railroad Museum is owned and operated by the City of Elkhart. Founded in 1987, NNYCRRM is an ever-growing preservation site of local and national railroad heritage pertaining to the New York Central System. New York Central was once the second-largest railroad in the US, with 11,000 route miles of track in eleven states and two Canadian provinces.

Elkhart is a natural home for the museum; NYC’s Robert R. Young Yard (now Norfolk Southern’s Elkhart Yard) is the second-largest freight classification yard east of the Mississippi River. Just as when the railroad first arrived in Elkhart in 1851, Elkhart functions as a vital link in the chain connecting the Atlantic Seaboard with the Midwest and beyond.