About the museum

The Port Jervis Railroad Museum (PJRM) is redeveloping the historic Erie Railroad turntable and locomotive maintenance facility in Port Jervis into an educational and interpretive historic site documenting railroading’s impact on the city and the region. This all-volunteer effort is led by a team of working railroaders, professional historians, and restoration experts with well over a century of transportation and preservation experience between them. Since 2020, the City-owned railyard has been brought back to life with the ongoing maintenance, restoration, and exhibition of historic railroad equipment, much of it original to Port Jervis and the surrounding region.

PJRM also owns a regionally historically significant collection of artifacts and documents from Port Jervis’s past. These artifacts are housed and displayed at the Port Jervis turntable property in dedicated boxcars that have been specially refitted as museum spaces. These exhibits, as well as several original railcars at the site, are typically open from May through October, while other railcars undergo significant restoration work at the property.

About the organization

The Port Jervis Railroad Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with an educational charter from the New York State Education Department’s Board of Regents to maintain a museum of local railroad history in Port Jervis, New York. The Port Jervis Railroad Museum (formerly known as the Tri-States Railway Preservation Society and founded in 1985 as the Depot Preservation Society) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TOYX, Inc.