South Shore 803 heads east across Olson Road as a two car interurban train heads for the depot.
On her first day of running in service in over 20 years, the big 800 class unit takes the spot light in a night photo shoot under a spectacular, stormy sky.
SP 1518 on the coach train at the Illinois Railway Museum.
Fancy commuter train... Back in March a movie company rented the use of the Nebraska Zephyr and built a little whistle stop station on the grounds at IRM. Here the 9911-A leads her train in for a... (more)
Just try to imagine the number of times this Mars light has gone side / up to side / down.
She's not the prettiest, but she runs! Built in 1961, retired in 1978.
The power for the "Diesel Days" freight train sits on the west wye.
Members of IRM's diesel dept have a job briefing as we roll by to complete some switching moves. In this view you have the CE 15 (EMD SW1), GBW 2407 (ALCO RS15), BN 5383 (GE U30C), CNW 6847 (EMD ... (more)
The class unit, even though it was only a class of 3, and the only TipUp unit still in orange and white.
The morning line up at the east end of yard 5... As the rusted railhead shows, they have been lined up like this for some time. The Nekoosa Paper 14, a S1, and Milwaukee Road 760, a H10-44 share ... (more)
The two car CA&E interurban set, built in 1908, displays white flags as it passes through Johnson siding and its next stop at Kishwaukee Grove.
SP 1518, the first SD-Series locomotive, sits at the Illinois Railway Museum
Not a pair of locomotives you can find just any where... The WC unit began life as BN 6539 in 1971. The MN&S is a DT6-6-2000 and was built 12/48.
The volunteer cars are parked next to a steam engine built by Brooks in 1900.
