What an event! Streamliners at Spencer.

CB&Q 9911A, Silver Pilot shows off its nose in one of the sheds at the Illinois Railroad Museum at Union, IL. The unit is the locomotive that is used to run the Nebraska Zephyr that is part of the... (more)

Departing the station for her last time this year, the 9911A heads east for Kishwaukee Grove.

Shovel Noses - 2: Though the two locomotives had many similarities, the two pre-war E-units on display at ... (more)

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)

Odd girl out... The UP 949 is out numbered by slant noses as she is flanked by CBQ 9911A and the ACL 501.

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.

Looking out of the roundhouse stall at the beautiful slant nose as she waits her turn to spin on the table.

Builder's plates temporarily adorned the sides of the Silver Pilot while she was in Spencer.

CBQ 9911A leads the Nebraska Zephyr trainset into Galesburg, passing underneath some original CBQ signals. The signals are unfortunately being replaced by new ones just to the southwest.

The Nebraska Zephyr departs Chicago with a round-trip excursion to Quincy.

The Nebraska Zephyr races down "The Race Track" under the cover of darkness.

A steam engine in a museum and one of the diesels that put it there running free on the main.