Museum Showcase weekend at IRM featured the Frisco 1630 with a 11 car train, the beautiful Silver Pilot pulling the Nebraska Zephyr train set, many electric passenger cars, and this, representativ... (more)

The latest addition to the Illinois Railway Museum's diesel fleet. TTI 260, sublettered for transport, was graciously donated to the museum by CSX Transportation. The locomotive was built as Chi... (more)

The 139 makes her first trip of the day thru Brighton. She would also be the last ever under the blades that evening.

Consecutive numbered units drag a work train southbound on the Milwaukee subdivision. Both cranes have C&NW reporting marks. Included is ex-CGW transfer caboose and ex-MoPac bay window caboose.

The engineering special gets panned as it crosses the IL/WI state line.

"Uh, hold on..." Just an example of why this isn't your average local.

"Train Expo 2014" gets under way with a Thursday night shoot lead by the Lerro Productions group. Here the Berks pose with two other steam locomotives.

The "J" making a rare evening appearance this far "west"...

During Diesel Weekend 2015, this line up was displayed in yard 5. Here three F-units and one E-unit shine under the moon and stars, and the last of the blue hour too. Currently the MILW 37A is i... (more)

Atlantic Coast Line painted Geep was ex-USA and ex-Alaska.

With the snow tapering off the "Air Forced One" works the yard clearing switches. With 10" on the ground the switch heater didn't keep up. I assume this belongs to Metra as it has Illinois municip... (more)

This morning's line up in yard 5. The BN 1 is an F9, the BN 3 is and E9, the MILW 118-C is an F7, and last in line is the MILW 37-A, another E9.

"Fake" Seaboard 4033's paint fades away under the Florida sun. This ex-GM&O F3 was rebuilt to FP10 for the MBTA, then worked at Cape Cod Scenic before being obtained by the museum.

An eclectic line up... Canadian Pacific graciously sent a fresh rebuild unit to IRM for display during the EMD 100th anniversary celebration that was held there. Here four EMD products are lined... (more)