Rheinisches Industriebahn-Museum

A railway museum in the historic Nippes locomotive depot – with around 70 industrial locomotives, open once a month.

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The Rhenish Industrial Railway Museum (RIM) is dedicated to preserving industrial railway vehicles. Since 1992 the association, founded in 1987, has been based in the historic Cologne-Nippes locomotive depot.

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At a glance

Founded: 1987, at the Nippes site since 1992
Collection: around 70 powered vehicles of various gauges
Focus: Deutz locomotives built in Cologne and Jung locomotives
Visiting: usually once a month (Sundays)

A workshop full of history

Built in 1914, the depot is one of the last great Prussian railway buildings in the Rhineland and has been a listed monument since 1996. The RIM collection is among the largest of its kind in Germany, showing locomotives that once worked in mining, brickworks and many other industries – a paradise for technology and railway enthusiasts.