OUR HISTORY
The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum is more than just a museum and collection. It is a living, breathing roundhouse where talented restoration specialists work to preserve the locomotives, railroad cars, tools and machinery of the glory days of railroading. Public tours are offered seasonally (May thru October) on Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays.
Needing a place to safely store and restore his fleet of railroad old-timers, our founder Jerry Jacobson acquired 34 acres of farm land located immediately adjacent to the Ohio Central Railroad main line track, and right alongside a road named Smokey Lane. Today the site consists of storage tracks, a store house, coal dock, wood water tank, ash pit, back shop and the jewel of the site, a complete, working, 18-stall, brick roundhouse surrounding a 115-foot turntable and turntable pit. Other than a few, small roundhouses recently built for railroad museums, we believe that this is the first full-sized, working roundhouse built in the U.S. since 1951.
The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum was constructed and is maintained with private funds donated by the Jerry and Laura Jacobson Foundation, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) entity.
ROUNDHOUSE TOURS
Please note: Saturday, May 1 is the first day of our 2021 public tour season.
Visitors to the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum experience an immersive trip back into the heyday era of steam locomotives and travel. Highlights of our guided tour are: an 18-stall, accurately reconstructed brick roundhouse surrounding a 115-foot turntable, the largest private collection of steam locomotives in the world, and a fully functioning, working back shop where skilled Roundhouse staff actively continue to restore and repair steam locomotives. Additionally, visitors will discover the tools used to keep locomotives on the rails, the bells, whistles and lights that made these engines unique, and much more.
Public tours are offered seasonally (May thru October) on Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays. Tickets can be purchased via the link below.
ROUNDHOUSE REPORTS
Explore our Roundhouse Reports for the latest news on restorations, programs and happenings at the Age of Steam Roundhouse.
Roundhouse Report – Spring 2021
Roundhouse Reports Roundhouse Report – Spring 2021 Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum — Mechanical Department Restorations The winter of 2020-2019 has been very busy here
Roundhouse Report – Winter 2020
Roundhouse Reports Roundhouse Report – Winter 2020 The year 2020 has been challenging for the entire world’s population, with effects of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching
Steam to Victory 2020
Steam to Victory 2020 Commemorating Wartime Railroading & the West Lafayette Disaster of September 11, 1950 This year the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum will
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