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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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Mon, 09-08-2025 08:22
Good job on the Burlington Nortern 9976. OK.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:56
No new news that I have heard of thus far.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:53
I'll also be doing another update on it soon. Keep en eye out for that.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:47
A little work was done to it for Diesel Days this year. You'll see photos floating around for the temporary short term job that was done to make it [...]
Wed, 08-06-2025 13:01
Is steam car CN 15444 going to be coming to museum several times it was to be moved to muesum
Sat, 07-19-2025 18:56
Yeah, sadly it's still there as of 7/19/2025
Thu, 06-12-2025 19:14
Its been 14 years guys, where is the unit? Like really? Did you guys misplace it? Or are repairs taking that long? At this point be might we will have [...]
Wed, 04-09-2025 17:40
Jamie Thanks for the update. She's gonna shine like every thing else you guys do! Smeds
Thu, 03-06-2025 16:28
Yes, there is a wye. Those two have been MU'ed on diesel days a year or two ago.
Wed, 03-05-2025 14:04
7009 number boards look good. Is there a way to turn a locomotive around at IRM? In case you ever had a mind to connect 7009 and 6847?
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...