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)

Not normally seen outside, this 1923 built Baldwin sits on the steam leads while her normal indoor storage building was used for the filming a movie.

The fresh looking SD24 sits, staged, ready to pull the RPO / coach train later in the day.

The Burlington E5 from the Illinois Transportation Museum is shown head on while being turned at Spencer on friday morning.

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.

CB&Q 9911-A and the Nebraska Zephyr wait to depart east out of the IRM depot.

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)

Crossing the diamonds at 21st street in Chicago, a CB&Q (Burlington Route) freight with GP30 #957 , GP20 #935 and GP40 #172. 35mm slide from my collection, photographer unknown.

Moonlight and stainless-steel
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Electro-Motive Division E5 No 9911-A was built in 1940 with stainless-steel fluting and side panels, and still glistens unde... (more)

A silver tail brings up the end of the coast starlight. These former California Zephyr cars have been spared from the scuppers torch and are available to charter.