NRHS awards 2025 Railway Heritage Grants

NRHS awards 2025 Railway Heritage Grants

By Trains Staff | June 5, 2025

Preservation grants totaling $150,000 go to 31 organizations

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Weathered wooden boxcar in warehouse
Return of the New Jersey “Merci Train” boxcar to its home state is one of 31 projects to receive NHRS Railway Heritage Grants for 2025. United Railway Historical Society of New Jersey

MOORESTOWN, N.J. — Thirty-one organizations have received $150,000 in funding from the National Railway Historical Society’s 2025 Railway Heritage Grant program, the organization announced Wednesday, June 4.

Logo of National Railway Historical SocietyThe funds go toward preservation of historic railroad artifacts and media.

“The NRHS Heritage Grants program is a prolific and visible funder of restoration and preservation projects,” NRHS President Tony White said in a press release. “I’d like to acknowledge the significance of donations by our membership towards this program: Thanks to the generosity of NRHS members and other donors, NRHS is distributing a total of $150,000 in Railroad Heritage Grants this year.”

Added Heritage Grant Chairman Charles Webb, “The NRHS Heritage Grants program supports preservation and restoration of historic railroad structures, locomotives, railcars, photos, and archival documents. The program has made a lasting impact: Since 1991, the NRHS has awarded 429 grants totaling over $1,403,000 to NRHS chapters and other organizations in support of railroad historical preservation efforts.”

Awards for 2025 include:

$10,000

$5,000

$4,915

  • Hoosier Heartland Trolley Co., Russiaville, Ind.: for restoration of the wooden batten strips and window sills of Indiana Union Traction interurban No. 429, Noblesville.

$4,550

$3,562

  • Wichita Falls Railroad Museum, Wichita Falls, Texas: to repair and repurpose a World War II troop sleeper car into a community meeting and event space.

$3,561

$3,000

$2,837

$2,575

$2,000

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