[1] It is 650 metres (0.4 mi) north of Wiesloch-Walldorf station, lying between the River Leimbach and mainline Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway to the west, and the Bundesstraße 3 and REWE supermarket Group's south-west central warehouses to the east.

The museum is based partly on the site of the former Tonwaren-Industrie Wiesloch brickworks which closed in 1989 and had been served by a 600-millimetre narrow-gauge railway network.

[7] Two ex-Deutsche Bahn railway wagons serve as a workshop and club house, on their own length of standard gauge track.

[8] A plan for restoration of the locomotive shed and operation of narrow-gauge passenger trains were presented to the City of Wiesloch in 2000.

[3] Narrow gauge trains were additionally seen as an attraction for a planned garden festival (Landesgartenschau) proposed in Wiesloch/Walldorf at the time.

[9] The museum is operated by the Feldbahn- und Industriemuseum Wiesloch e.V registered association (eingetragener Verein), with the management board (Vorstand) elected by the members of the organisation.

[7] At the highest point of the museum there is a working bucket chain excavator built in 1948 and previously used by a mine in Wasserberg, Bavaria until 1976.

[25][6][7] The bucket chain excavator arrived at the museum in October 2010,[25] allowing the opening of a clay pit exhibition area in 2012,[2] and is now operated by a three-phase electric motor.

[2][27] Part of the museum railway track extends 400 metres (0.25 mi) southwards through the old brickworks to the Landratsamt district offices opposite Leimbach Park.

[8] By late-2002, the gauge conversion to 600 millimetre, and connection to the tracks around the locomotive shed allowed a significant expansion of the railway activities.

[11] A Gmeinder locomotive and associated passengers wagons originally used for the 1990 Landesgartenschau garden festival were obtained on permanent loan from the City of Würzburg.

[2][6][36] The Model Railway Club of the Palatinate (German: Modelleisenbahnfreunde Kurpfalz) had been temporarily based at the museum, between its original home in Rauenberg and moving to the Session building, also near Wiesloch-Walldorf station.

[37] On the occasion of the move Franz Stier, from the Feldbahn museum, presented the model railway club with a carriage destination sign that had been used for the last mainline steam locomotive trip to the old station on 31 March 1980.

[59] In June 2002 the museum held a Locomotive Shed Festival (Lokschuppenfest) jointly coordinated with an open day at the bus depot of the Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (SWEG) transport company in Wiesloch.

[80] On 25 June 2017 the members of the museum ran round trips from the train from the edge of the Leimbach Park as part of the Wiesloch/Walldorf "Day of the Open Gardens" 2017.

[83] On 12 August 2017, children from the Mannaberg School in Rauenberg visited the museum, seeing the turntable, locomotive shed, diggers, mineshafts.

[84] Children rode on the cycle draisine and along the planned extension route before playing football, Twister and coconut shy on the museum grounds.

[85] On 31 March 2018, eighty family members from the Wiesloch Fire Brigade visited the museum for their Easter Sunday outing.

[89] In mid-2019 children from Hockenheim again visited the museum as part of a holiday programme, making use of a new covered picnic area.

[92] On 7 December 2013 the museum was featured in the 800th episode of the SWR Fernsehen television series Eisenbahn-Romantik, in the episode "From small trains and big plans – on the narrow gauge track" (German: "Von kleinen Zügen und großen Plänen - der Feldbahn auf der Spur").

[98] On 26 October 2016 president of the region of Karlsruhe Nicolette Kressl [de] held a press conference at the museum.

[110] In June 2001 the city agreed an initial lease for 1,400 square metres (0.14 hectares; 15,000 sq ft) to enable protection of the locomotive shed and the immediate surroundings.

[110] In January 2010 a geological survey showed that the land parcel surrounding the locomotive shed would be unsuitable for commercial development.

[113] In recognition of the duty of care in conservation and management of the site and large demonstrated volunteer work, the City of Wiesloch awarded a cost-free peppercorn rent for fifteen years.

[7] On 25 June 2017, the members of the museum had an information stand at the edge of the Leimbach Park with the extension plans the joint Wiesloch–Walldorf Day of the Open Gardens (Tag der offenen Gärten und Höfe).

[13] In mid-2019, the City of Wiesloch and the Wiesloch/Walldorf Sewage and Flood Protection Association (AHW, Abwasser- und Hochwasserschutzverband) donated a railway bridge to the museum.

[117][118] The bridge had been constructed in 1901 from steel and sandstone, and had stood for nearly 120 years carrying the standard gauge branch line over the Waldangelbach stream in Wiesloch, next to the former corrugated cardboard factory.