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The museum was founded in 1953 by ten people who joined to purchase Indiana Railroad interurban car 65. Originally called the Illinois Electric Railway Museum, the museum was located on the grounds of the Chicago Hardware Foundry in North Chicago. In 1961, it was renamed to the Illinois Railway Museum to reflect its expanding scope.
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway 1630 is a preserved class "Ye" 2-10-0 type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. [1] Today, Frisco No. 1630 is currently one of two operating Decapods in service in America, the other being former Great Western No. 90 at the Strasburg Rail Road outside of Strasburg, Pennsylvania. [2]
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois owns cars 36, 308, 309, 319, 321, 409, 431, 451, 453, and 460. Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin, Illinois owns cars 11, 20, 316, 317 and 458. Rockhill Trolley Museum in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania owns car 315. Midwest Electric Railway in Mount Pleasant, Iowa owns car 320.
W. Wyoming station (Illinois) Categories: Railroad museums in the United States by state or territory. Transportation museums in Illinois. Rail transportation in Illinois.
Website. www.mrym.org. The Monticello Railway Museum (initialized MRYM, reporting mark MRMZ[1][nb 1]) is a non-profit railroad museum located in Monticello, Illinois, about 18 miles west of Champaign, IL. It is home to over 100 pieces of railroad equipment, including several restored diesel locomotives and cars.
5 ft (1,524 mm) Length. 3,130.21 mi (5,037.58 km) The Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
No. 803, is preserved in operating condition at the Illinois Railway Museum. The power system was changed from 6600 volts AC to 1500 volts DC on July 28, 1926, allowing trains to operate directly to the Illinois Central Railroad's Randolph Street Terminal (now Millennium Station) without an engine change.