When you can hear an image. With cylinder cocks open and bell swinging, #1630 backs over the crossing to the thrill of onlooking museum visitors.

Shay #5 heads down the line with a caboose train.

A pair of IRM's diesels sit outside the shops.

Two modes of rail propulsion meet at IRM.

Frisco 1630 and its train have arrived at East Union for a station stop, as the train's conductors show off the schedule to the boarding passengers.

Frisco 1630 holds up traffic at Depot Street at the Illinois Railway Museum during a nighttime photo shoot as it meets a '37 International, a '49 Hudson, and a '50 Studebaker.

Frisco 1630's engineer surveys the route ahead as the locomotive poses at Depot Street.

Frisco 1630, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1918, brings the night coach train past Spaulding tower as it arrives at the East Union depot.

BN 5383 pushes the caboose train back along the mainline and past an active semaphore signal at IRM's annual Diesel Days event.

The Illinois Railway Museum's newly painted Rock Island GP7R #4506 leads the coach train out of the station on the museum grounds and onto IRM's mainline, seen here passing one of the museum's act... (more)

The Illinois Railway Museum's newly painted Rock Island GP7R #4506 leads the coach train back into the station on the museum grounds, passing Spaulding Tower in the process.

CB&Q 9911A with the Nebraska Zeyphr meets the SLSF 1630 with the coach train at Showcase Weekend 2022.

The AAPRCO excursion train, lead by Metra's C&NW heritage unit, is paced by IRM's C&NW 411 and the bilevel set as they cross Seemann Road.

AAPRCO held their annual convention in Chicago this year, one of the excursions was a trip to IRM. Here the excursion train, lead by Metra's C&NW heritage unit, is paced by IRM's C&NW 411 and the ... (more)

BN-3 (EMD E9AM), SLGR 515 displayed at IC 4035 (EMD E8A), BN-1 (EMD F9A rebuilt) and MILW 118-C (EMD F7A) are all lined up in yard five, under the stars.