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Tuesday, July 19. 201626th Annual Vintage Transport Extravaganza, Sunday, August 7th
Join us for our 26th Annual Vintage Transport Extravaganza on Sunday, August 7th, 2016. This show is one of the largest car shows in Illinois with over 400 antique vehicles, trucks, fire engines, tractors, motorcycles, buses and more on display. The museum's Frisco 1630 steam locomotive, built in 1918, will be operating with a coach train. The Nebraska Zephyr, built in 1936, will be operating as well, along with many interurban and streetcars.
 For 2016, we are offering advance general admission ticket sales online, as well as ticket sales at the gate. To purchase your tickets online in advance, follow this link. Ticket prices are $14.00 per adult, $10.00 per child, and $12.00 per senior. Your ticket provides admission to the museum grounds for the entire day and unlimited rides on all revenue trains operating that day.Antique vehicle owners are invited to attend this event as well. Additional registration details are located on this PDF link. We look forward to seeing you there! Tuesday, July 19. 2016Diesel Days, July 23 and 24, 2016
The annual Diesel Days event this year is this weekend, July 23rd and 24th. Volunteers will be working throughout this week to ready several more locomotives for the Parade of Power. Normal operations each day will begin at 10:30am and will continue until 5:00pm. We will break around 1:00pm each day for the Parade of Power.
 Equipment is as follows (subject to mechanical condition, updated 7-18-2016):United States Army 8537 (45 Ton) Commonwealth Edison 15 (SW1) Burlington Northern 5383 (U30C) display only Burlington Northern 1 (F9A), 2 (F9B) Burlington Northern 3 (E9Am) Milwaukee Road 37A (E9A) Milwaukee Road 760 (H10-44) Milwaukee Road 118C (F7A) display only Milwaukee Road 1603 (HH600) display only Green Bay Western 2407 (RSD15) Chicago Burlington & Quincy 504 (SD24) Chicago Burlington & Quincy 9255 (SW7) Chicago Burlington & Quincy 9911A (E5A) Nebraska Zephyr Illinois Terminal 1605 (GP7) Southern Pacific 1518 (SD7) Union Pacific 1848 (B40-8) Union Pacific 6930 (DDA 40X) display only Chicago & North Western 4160 (GP7R) Chicago & North Western 1689 (RSD5) Chicago & North Western 6847 (SD40-2) display only Chicago & North Western 411 (F7A) display only Chicago & North Western 8648 (C44-9W) display only Chicago & North Western 8701 (C44-9W) display only We'll keep the usual disclaimer of: All equipment and schedules subject to change without notice. A night photo session is scheduled this year for Saturday evening. A limited number of passes will be available here for $40.00 each. We will meet at the East Union Depot at about 6:30pm. There will be photo lineups with Milwaukee Road; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; and Chicago and North Western equipment. |
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Fri, 03-29-2024 21:26
We're slackers and spend more time working on the equipment in the shop than keeping all you readers updated. We'll work on it, but I'm sure updates [...]
Thu, 03-14-2024 08:02
What happened to the Department Blog? It's been over 2 years and I still regularly check for updates, but nothing comes...
Mon, 12-27-2021 16:28
Happy New Year to all the Departments at the Illinois railway Museum! Thanks for all the good work you do in railroad preservation. Ted Miles, [...]
Wed, 10-13-2021 13:33
Was the CB&Q 1309 every transported to IRM?I’ve been reading old issues of Rail&Wire and the car was mentioned several times.
Mon, 06-07-2021 22:40
I was wondering if in the model layout display what scale would you guys be using and would you be displaying model train history as well? Just [...]
Wed, 06-02-2021 17:27
Nice to see 428's cab back on. Looking forward to when it is operable!
Tue, 06-01-2021 16:47
I hope the work will continue on the UP #428. Now that they are the museum's connection to the national railroad network; she would be very [...]
Sat, 04-17-2021 23:07
What is the status of 126, the Milwaukee Buffet car that is in S. Dakota? Any guess on when or if it will get to IRM?
Wed, 04-14-2021 21:09
Perhaps it is time to scrap the remains of the c, B & Q 7128 to make room for the Villa Real. Ted miles, IRM member
Wed, 04-14-2021 15:26
Hi IRM my name is Jason and I was wonder If you guys would be willing to save a CN Dash8-40cm they are currently being retired by CN and being [...]
Fri, 04-09-2021 19:56
Bear in mind that the Nebraska Zephyr is an articulated train set, so cars cannot be inserted at will. Although cars and/or a second engine could be [...]
Wed, 03-31-2021 11:37
I believe Silver Pony is currently on the back burner, and has been put into storage in one of the barns. The car needs a lot of work done to it's [...]