The museum occupies 155 acres and is the home of four different gauge railroads along with numerous other pieces of steam powered and vintage farm equipment.

Twenty two acres (the present main show grounds) were purchased and hundreds of thorn apple trees cleared.

In 1964, at the suggestion of Bruce Achor, a steam locomotive was purchased from Elliott Donnelley of Lake Forest, IL, who took an interest in the accomplishments at Hesston.

Donnelley died in late December 1975, and upon his death his family donated the 14 in (356 mm) gauge railroad that had operated on his Lake Forest estate.

Dr. George Mohun of Novato California contacted the society and offered 4 locomotives and 8 flat cars, the remains of the Mecklenburg-Pommersche Schmalspurbahn Railroad in East Germany, which had been intended for a steam tourist railway near San Francisco.

36 inch Source[3] A unique three-rail, dual-gauge,narrow-gauge railroad runs on a two-and-a-half-mile (4 km) route around the museum property.

1/4 scale locomotives (14 in / 356 mm gauge) are steam or gasoline powered and were mainly built for amusement parks from the 1920s to the 1950s.

In addition to the three railroads at the museum there are numerous other pieces of steam powered and vintage farm equipment.

Operation is in full swing at the Labor Day Weekend Steam & Power Show when the threshing machine is used to process grains for the fall harvest.

In September 2022, the museum announced the completion of a half-scale working model of the Tom Thumb locomotive, built by Rick Weber.