This unique museum has a fascinating and exotic collection of over 100 real size exhibits of Indian Railways. Static and working models, signaling equipments, antique furnitures, historical photographs and related literature etc. are displayed in the museum.
An Indoor Gallery at the museum houses models of the engines & coaches of several different trains that are currently running or were in the Railways' service during bygone times. Another popular exhibit is a model of the awe-inspiring cantilever Pamban Bridge existing over the Palk Strait & connecting Rameswaram on Pamban Island to mainland India through a railroad line over the sea, that also folds up at the centre to let ships pass from underneath it.
But by far the most interesting artifact at the gallery, straight from the pages of history, is the preserved skull of a wild elephant that was killed in a head-on collision with a train way back in 1894. Other artifacts like the railway cranes, various coach fittings, furniture and other odds & ends belonging to historic trains are also on display at the gallery along with valuable pieces of information about the history of IR.