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While located in Noblesville, the Indiana Transportation Museum operated excursion trains on 38 miles (61 km) of a former Nickel Plate Road line originally built for the Indianapolis and Peru Railroad and, at the time of ITM's eviction, owned by the Hoosier Heritage Port Authority (HHPA), which is made up of the Indiana cities of Indianapolis, Fishers, and Noblesville.
After five years of work, 587 returned to operating condition in 1988 and pulled its first revenue train in September 1988 from Indianapolis to Logansport, Indiana. In 1989, 587 participated in a double-header, and triple-header with two Norfolk & Western Nos. 611 and 1218 hauling with a solo passenger train alongside the excursion.
It was used primarily to pull the museum's Fair Train from Fishers, IN to the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis, IN and other special events. In October 1988, April 1989, July and October 1993, and in June 1994, No. 587 made runs down to Bloomington, Indiana , along with a side trip over Tulip Trestle , 20 miles west of Bloomington, Indiana .
The Hoosier Heritage Port Authority is a quasi-governmental organization in the U.S. state of Indiana.It is the owner of a Heritage railway (reporting mark HHPA), operated by the Indiana Transportation Museum from 1995 to 2015 & currently operated by the Nickel Plate Express since 2018, over former Norfolk Southern trackage from Tipton, Indiana, to Indianapolis, a distance of 37 miles (59.5 km).
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The terminal consisted of three parts: a nine-story office building, a passenger waiting platform, and an adjoining train shed. The train shed was 133 feet 9 inches (40.77 m) wide and covered nine tracks. It was positioned north-south, with trains entering from Market Street and exiting to Ohio Street. The train shed severed Wabash Street. [1]
[7] [20] [27] Around May of that same year, during the sesquicentennial of Indiana's statehood, the Indiana Museum of Transportation of Noblesville leased No. 5629 to pull multiple sesquicentennial excursions on the Norfolk and Western’s (N&W) Ex-Nickel Plate Road mainline between Indianapolis and Noblesville, and over 14,000 passengers rode ...
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