Most of the older models were manufactured by the North British Locomotive Company,[1] with some trains in the collection dating back more than a century.

[3] The 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) museum has two galleries, a number of 19th-century outdoor heritage exhibits, a toy train that takes visitors around the perimeter, and a playground.

[5] A video about Neal's ball token system (which provided signaling between trains) is featured, as well as a coach in which Mahatma Gandhi[6] traveled.

[9] The exhibits are interspersed with posters of high-speed trains from around the world, the history of Indian Railways and models of coaches made for Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Vietnam and Zambia.

They also include a coach from the Mumbai suburban train network, old railway maps of India, century-old clocks, and a diesel-locomotive engine block.

The ICF Diamond Jubilee Gallery has photographs by Ian Manning which were digitally restored, including one of a steam-engine turntable.

It also has a first-class compartment seat, a scale model of third-class MG coaches designed and manufactured at ICF for Uganda, and photographs of dignitaries such as Queen Elizabeth II, K. Kamaraj, and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

The paintings, by artists such as M. S. Murthy and Shahid Pasha, illustrate subjects commonly found in railway stations and related establishments.

In Pasha's Kanhaiya's Journey, a young Krishna showing his mother Yashoda the way home as she pulls a suitcase and tries to board the Mathura Express at the Bangalore railway station.

An antique steam engine which once operated in the Nilgiri Mountains is at the museum entrance, and the space surrounding it is decorated with greenery and herbs.

Although nearly 5,500 people visit the museum each month[10] (primarily students and local residents),[4] the railway struggles with a lack of awareness and publicity despite its role in India's growth.

[13] The air-conditioned Chennai Express restaurant is inside a Linke Hoffman Busch train coach provided by the ICF.