The Labor Day Weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum featured a night session after the normal closing hours. The Frisco 1630 and the CB&Q 9911A were the main attractions after dark. The train is ... (more)

CBQ 9911A heads west on the IRM mainline before pulling into the depot.

CBQ 9911A shoves the Nebraska Zephyr west in Union, IL at IRM.

The Nebraska Zephyr holds on station track 2 during night operations at IRM.

Stainless steel on a classic streamliner, taken at the Streamliners at Spencer event.

NCTM's "Streamliners" event would not be complete without the Illinois Railway Museum's CB&Q E-5 "Silver Pilot" No. 9911-A! The locomotive, sans her "Nebraska Zeph... (more)

What an event! Streamliners at Spencer.

The Nebraska Zephyr splits the semaphores at Olson Road.

The conductor is giving the Nebraska Zephyr a final check as Chicago Burlington & Quincy 9911A is preparing to pull the lunch train at the Illinois Railway Museum. CB&Q 9911A is the only remainin... (more)

Raindrops on steam trains and whiskers on diesels
Restored black kettles and silver streamliners
Brown color ballast multiple trains
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IRM's Nebraska Zephyr rolls through the Illinois countryside, giving riders a taste of what it was like to ride a streamlined passenger train in the 1950s.

Museum Showcase weekend at IRM featured the Frisco 1630 with a 11 car train, a train set representative of a 1950's C&NW scoot powered by an RSD5, many electric passenger cars, and this, the sole ... (more)

The Illinois Railway Museum's CB&Q 9911A sits over a pit track inside the roundhouse in Spencer. The cab tours were held here in the roundhouse.

Not the normal view out the engineer's side... The night shoot is well under way in the south yard. This night the E-units were featured together.

CBQ SW7 9255 pulls the Nebraska Zephyr and CNW F7(A) 411 into the UP's Belvidere Yard on in it's way back to the Illinois Railway Museum in Union after Train Festival 2011 in Rock Island. It's her... (more)