Indiana Interurbans

2025 in Review: Finishing Indiana’s Interurban and How Your Gift Goes 7X Further

2025 in Review: Finishing Indiana’s Interurban and How Your Gift Goes 7X Further

The largest grant in our history brings our first interurban car restoration project for Hoosiers to enjoy the art, science, technology, and transformative empowerment that was Indiana’s electric interurban railway closer to completion. Join us to revive Hoosier history for future generations and to build an educational, community-placemaking driver for Indiana.

$100,000 Heritage Support Grant to complete historic Indiana interurban car restoration

$100,000 Heritage Support Grant to complete historic Indiana interurban car restoration

Impact Grant provided by the Indiana Historical Society and made possible by Lilly Endowment, Inc., will bring century-old Union Traction interurban No. 429 to 95% completion for public enjoyment and education.

National Railway Historical Society awards grant for rare Indiana interurban car

National Railway Historical Society awards grant for rare Indiana interurban car

Electrify 429, a campaign to revive one of Indiana’s last electric interurban cars, has received a $4,255 grant from the National Railway Historical Society’s Heritage Grant program. The award is made with support from the NRHS Indianapolis Chapter, and is one of 21 national grants awarded from the NRHS convention in Los Angeles, California. The organization is actively fundraising a $1,000 match to coincide with $1,100 in funds already raised for the grant project.