Like A Passing On The Loop. Looking out from the cab of former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) "L" car 4451 (Cincinnati Car Co., 1924) while holding at Coleman Yard at the Fox Riv... (more)

Long Train. For the first time in many years, the Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin, Illinois held a “Photographer’s Day” on October 2, 2022. The event was held in the early mor... (more)

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

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

CTA Under The CN. During a busy afternoon at the museum, former Chicago Transit Authority "L" car 4451 crosses under under the Canadian National Railroad bridge at the Fox River i... (more)

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD E5 No. 9911-A and the Nebraska Zephyr Budd-built streamliner trainset runs north past houses and driveways on Division Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on September 3... (more)

Frisco 1630 rolls past Seeman Road on its way to Kishwaukee Grove. IRM members worked many long days to ensure that 1630 made it out for Memorial Day.

Originally built for the Long Island Railroad as #1559 in 1955, MRMA #310 still wears its Gettysburg Railroad numbering and paint scheme. The locomotive was repainted as IC #704 in honor of IC's ... (more)

ATSF 92 leads the coach train onto the main at ‘East Switch’ during Diesel Days 2021.

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.

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)

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.

Milwaukee Road 118C and the freshly repainted Milwaukee Road dynamometer car are at the head end of the IRM coach train as it comes into the station in Union, IL.

Streamliner meets Zephyr. CBQ E5 9911A Holds for CNW 411 leading the Coach train down the IRM main!

The fireman aboard Shay 5 scores a direct hit to the fireman on Frisco 1630 as they pass at Johnson Siding, just east of Union.