Evening Mixed Service. A Southern Railway mixed train sits at the Nelson Crossing Depot awaiting the loading of some local freight traffic. A couple of late arriving passengers query the ... (more)

Passing Stair Tower. A Southern Railway local freight receives orders as she passes Stair Tower in the yard at Monticello on a spring evening. The power tonight is Southern Railway #401, a... (more)

Kloke Locomotive Works Leviathan #63 makes a visit to the Monticello Railway Museum to help honor the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln.

Normally former Canadian National FPA-4 #6789 pulls short passenger trains on the Monticello Railway Museum tracks, but today it is earning freight revenue as is switches out stored freight cars f... (more)

The 2017 NS Holiday Train prepares to depart Wabic Junction with the usual classic consist of Wabash 1189 and CN 6789.

Wabash 1189 passes MP 387 on the Springfield-Hannibal District, a location it's likely passed many times in its 65+ year career.

Wabash 1189 disturbs the quiet town of Niantic as it barrels by the grain elevator with the 2017 NS Holiday Train.

Southern 401 charges past the Monticello Railway Museum's Nelson Crossing siding during Railroad Days as passengers disembark the museum's freight train.

Wabash 1189 gets ready to depart Brush Yard with another round trip of the annual holiday train in Decatur Illinois

Wabash F7 1189 holds next to the old Wabash coal chute in Decatur with the 2017 NS Santa Train.

Wabash 1189 and CN 6789 accelerate out of Decatur with the Norfolk Southern's Illinois Division Santa Train.

Monticello Railway Museum and Norfolk Southern every December put on a kick ass Christmas Special that runs between Decatur to Illiopolis and back that runs on the Illinois Division's Springfield-... (more)

The NS Santa Train heads west thru Niantic, IL.

The NS Santa Train heads west in the last light of day.

Wabash F7 1189 leads the NS Santa Train west out of Decatur. For one weekend each December, this classic unit leaves its home at the Monticello Railway Museum and does 4-5 trips each day between D... (more)