The Illinois Railway Museum

Union, Illinois

"A Museum in Motion"

Point Communications has honored this Illinois Railway Museum site with their Top 5% of the Web Award!

This is the IRM Front Gate. From here, you can find information about the museum, its collection, directions, special events, or even take a brief photo tour. Look around, have fun, take a ride, but please, no climbing on the equipment!

Before you go for a tour of the property, please read this.

Please help the IRM save CB&Q Hudson #3007!

BN5383, the museum's GE U30C retrieves CB&Q 3007 and T&NO 975!

Aerial View of the IRM
Photographed by Peter Van Campen, January, 1995
Pilot: Burt Katz, Aircraft: Beechcraft Bonanza

Take a tour of the IRM main property and an understanding of the museum layout.

Please see the official IRM web site for the operating schedule!

A major event! Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Northern type 4-8-4 number 2903 moves from Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry to the IRM in Union!

You can't run a railroad without Maintenance of Way! Here are some recent track projects at the museum.
These articles are on the www.irm.org server site.

Signals are an important part of railroading. See how the IRM uses signals.

In the shops for a rebuild.

Some images from the IRM.

Other important IRM websites:
A new IRM home site, managed by James Kolanowski
Wes Barris' IRM info

For current operating information, call: 1-800-BIG-RAIL in the Chicagoland area.

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All images Copyright 1995 Darryl Van Nort