In this 2.5 second exposure Shaker Heights Rapid Transit #18 passes the wig-wag signal.

Butter Dish Car. Borden Milk Tank Car BFIX 520 was part of a streamlined art deco style 35 car order built by Merchants Despatch Transportation Company in 1935 to carry 6000 gallons of milk... (more)

RI 4506 picks CBQ 9255 at Barn 2. These movements were done after the photo freight did its last run, and Illinois Railway Museum was "cleaning up" the displays of the night before, when... (more)

Illinois Railway Museum personnel are using their former C&WI crane to unload Union Electric Company #4 onto museum property. Tom Golden photo.

Illinois Railway Museum personnel are in the process of unloading Union Electric Company #4 from a flatcar. The Porter 0-4-0 was built in 1946. Tom Golden photo.

METX 308 and CNW 411 lead the CNW bi-levels past the Olsen Rd. semaphores.

METX 308 and CNW 411 rest on the IRM wye next to the vintage Santa Fe sign that once rested atop the railway exchange building in Chicago.

Old neighbors. Webb Rail LLC - WEBX's “Babbling Brook” and Morristown and Erie Railway Alco C424 18 could frequently be found next to each other in recent years, when the Brook was stored at t... (more)

Joy Mfg. Co. #2 sits at the Illinois RR Museum in Union, IL in October of 2008. Not a lot of Whitcomb's left.

On May 6th, the new Kansas City Streetcar officially opened. But during the 1940s, streetcars in Kansas City looked like this. Car 755 is the last Kansas City Public Service PCC in original colo... (more)

The Illinois Railway Museum's open car from Veracruz, Mexico crosses Central Avenue late in the afternoon on the day of the annual Trolley Pageant.

IRM's newest acquisition is a four-car set of ex-Illinois Central "Highliner" double-deck MU cars. Within days of arrival they are sitting outside the electric car shop being inspected.... (more)

Chicago streetcar 3142, built by Brill in 1923, passes under trolley bus overhead as it crosses Central Avenue at the Illinois Railway Museum. The car is signed for Cicero Avenue, a route in Chic... (more)

Chicago Aurora & Elgin 36 is the oldest operating piece of equipment at the Illinois Railway Museum. Built in 1902 by the John Stephenson Company of Elizabeth, NJ, the car was acquired from an Ohi... (more)

A group of Burlington power lines up at the west end of the Illinois Railway Museum's station tracks late in the day.