NKP 329 (RSD12) dedicated to Robert Claytor, and 900 (GP30) dedicated to B.J. Hoops, flank the main walkway in the museum.

This ex-LS&MS (NYC) section house from Bellevue serves as the entrance to the museum grounds on Southwest St.

We'll bet you didn't know that Henry M. Flagler of Florida East Coast RR fame had a Bellevue connection, but he did. (We were surprised too!)

NKP 329 (RSD12), built in 1957, was main line NKP power until 1981. NS donated it to the museum in memory of Robert Claytor, pres. of N&W.

NS donated NKP 900 (GP30) to the museum in 1992 in memory of B.J. Hoops, for whom the loco is named, former Bellevue Yard superintendent.

This plaque is in memory of B.J. Hoops, Bellevue Yard superintendent, and his signature is below the cab windows of NKP 900 (GP30).

This W&LE depot, built in 1882, stood on the at Curtice, south of Toledo. It was moved to the museum in 1976 and renamed Bellevue.

On 6/21/08, the museum was rededicated to William (Bill) Fuehring, its primary founder. This plaque will be installed permanently at the museum.

An ex-W&LE watchman's tower from Toledo stands guard over the NS Toledo tracks and the Wabash F7A at the southwest corner of the museum grounds.

Wabash 671 (F7A) built in 1951 by GMD of Canada served mainly on the Canadian St. Thomas Div. of the Wabash between Windsor and Buffalo.

NKP X50041 dynamometer car, built in 1924, measured steam loco performance. This was the only NKP dynamometer to have crew quarters and a kitchen.

Monument Station, across sfrom the museum grounds, is the ticket office and gift shop, and houses several historic raul cars and artifacts

The Sandusky is a replica of the first steam locomotive operated in Ohio on the Mad River & Lake Erie RR which eventually became part of the B&O.

The explanatory plaque on the replica of the 1837 Sandusky on display in the Monument Station.

NKP 52-seat coach 105, built in 1949, in the road's original streamline colors, is one of the last NKP coaches ever built and still in existence.

The American Life Pullman sleeper was bult in 1942 for Erie RR's Erie Limited, and then served Amtrak until retirement in 1969.

NKP wooden cupola caboose 1047 was retrieved from a farm in Indiana, and museum volunteers spent 3 years restoring it for display.

Wheelng & Lake Erie caboose 0911 once brought up the rear of WLE trains through Bellevue when WLE was under NKP control.

This Mack Railway Express truck is one of two REA vehicles on display in the Monument Station.

This 45-ton electric side-arm car pusher built in 1920 was used at the ex-PRR, niow NS, coal unloader in Sanduky stands in the museum coach yard.

Ex-NYC 45-ton wedge snowplow 3X865, built in 1943, has 12-foot movable blades to widen the cut over the tracks.

BR&P 0-6-0 1060 at the Mad River & NKP Museum is being sold by sealed bids this August 7/26/08 (Steve LaConte)

NS' executive train, 951, crosses Monroe St., Bellevue, coming out of the yard to the MR&NKP Museum event 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS 4270, 4276, and 4271 (F9A/F7B/F9A) ease NS 951 toward its stop at the MR&NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS "executive F's" lead the 951 special out of Bellevue Yard, across Monroe St., and to the MR&NKP Museum 6/21/08 (Dan Davidson)

NS 951 is about to make its station stop at the Mad River & NKP Museum and its waiting crowd 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

Bill Fuehring's family and friends have seats of honor in Buena Vista, NS' theater car, as NS 951 glides under the bridge 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

Beautiful! NS 4270 (F9A) on the executive train stamds at Southwest St., Bellevue, during the museum rededication ceremony 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS 4270 (F9A) at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS 4276 (F7B) at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS 4271 (F9A) at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS business car Pennsylvania at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS business car Alabama at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS business car-diner General William Malone at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS business car West Virginia at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS theater car Buena Vista at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

"Business end" of NS theater car Buena Vista at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

NS 951 has turned at the New Haven Conn. and is rushing into Bellevue Yard as a heavy thunderstorm builds on the horizon 6/21/08 (Richard Croy)

Steven Tobias (left), NS' vice chairman-operations, received a life membership in the MR&NKP Museum at the 6/21/08 ceremony (Steve LaConte)