C&NW 4160 (former Rock Island 4506) passing the 1908 Chicago Railways Company datestone from the West Shops complex in Chicago. There are several monuments to fallen flags at IRM.

Grand Trunk 8380 keeps company with Graysonia, Nashville & Ashdown 26 (left) and Lake Superior & Ishpeming 35 (right) at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Milwaukee 118C is ready to lead a caboose train west at IRM.

Chicago & North Western SD40-02 6847 is one of several preserved C&NW locomotives at the Illinois Railway Museum. It is photographed here alongside C&NW RSD-5 1689 and Burlington Northern F9A BN-... (more)

Reading the Illinois Central E unit was to lead the 2013 CN Holiday train I thought I should get out to see this train never knowing how long the 101 would remain. I spent the full day from Gilma.... (more)

ormer C & NW commuter cars carry passengers for IRM Holiday train.

Passengers wait to load late run of IRM CNW holiday train.

CNW 8646,8701, 1689 outside IRM barn.

At the time new addition CNW RSD-5 sits with other CNW units in front of barn.

45 ton General Electric Switcher is sitting near IRM barns. Mainstay museum switcher

Leviathan at Illinois Railway Museun

CB&Q 509 leads heavy weight train of CB & Q cars including RPO

C&NW 1518 leads Illinois Terminal 1605 and Rock Island 4506 on the coach train as they try to outrun a thunder storm.

IRM Holiday Train with Families on it enjoying Hot Cooca and Santa.

Fireworks light up the evening sky as C&IM 30 (RS1325) and BN-3 (E9AM) rest quietly at the east end of the yard during the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Labor Day weekend.