It is run by volunteer workers as part of the Stiftung Bahn-Sozialwerk (BSW), a kind of railway workers social service organisation, and has its origins in a BSW's 'Group for the Preservation of Historical Railway Vehicles' at Koblenz.
The site was built in 1905 as part of the rebuilding and expansion of Lützel goods station into the Koblenz-Lützel locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk).
Today it accommodates the vehicles belonging to the DB Museum at Koblenz.
In addition to the exhibits of actual vehicles, these themes are expanded by means of photographs, pictures and models in the museum rooms.
A model railway, built in modular (Nordmodul) fashion, recalls the atmosphere of the steam age in the post-war years.