IC 3719, a 2-6-0, undergoes a cosmetic restoration at the Illinois Railway Museum.

With the operating day coming to a close, it's time to bank the fire. With a smoking firebox spreading out to the cab, IRM Steam Department Volunteer Don Panek puts his shovel away and will begin ... (more)

In the setting sun, GBW 2407 shines in the sun outside of Barn 2 during Showcase Weekend 2020.

A very Old North Shore Railway line car is being used for its purpose at the IRM at Union ILL in the summer of 1994 it was fun to watch this.. Some of my early memories were riding the North Sh... (more)

The Happy Holiday Railway shoves east to ‘The Grove’ on the IRM mainline with BN-3 as power.

The Happy Holiday Railway arrives back at East Union with BN-3 on the point as ATSF 92 rests outside of Barn 2.

The Happy Holiday Railway heads west in the last minutes of sunlight with BN-3 as it smokes it up past a pair of CPL’s on the Illinois Railway Museum Mainline.

ComEd 15 sits outside Barn 9 at IRM.

Recently restored UP rotary 900075 sits on display at IRM as the big elf himself gets on board the bilevel train for another trip.

BN 1 holds at East Union depot with the Nebraska Zeyphr train set as it waits for the coach train to clear East Switch before proceeding east down the mainline to Kishwaukee Grove.

UP 900075, the IRM's newly repainted snow plow, rests in Station Track 2 for the night.

CTA 2153 and 2154 are at IRM's recreated "L" station during nighttime operations on September 1, 2019. The Illinois Railway Museum has a large collection of former Chicago commuter equi... (more)

CTA 2153 and 2154 sit outside the restored 50th Street Station. Built in 1964 by Pullman, they are aluminum-bodied "high performance" air conditioned cars with fiberglass ends that were... (more)

IRM's big Russian Decapod is passing the 1890 interlocking tower that protected the junction of the Milwaukee Road and the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern at Spaulding, just east of Elgin, Illinois.

BN 5383 rests away in Barn 9 at the Illinois Railway Musuem during Labor Day Weekend 2020.