The museum will share the history of the rail industry and its impact on the development of the Midwest through unique ...

Metra has donated F40C No. 614, one of just two such surviving locomotives, to the Illinois Railway Museum. IRM says in a press release that it hopes to restore the locomotive to operating condition.

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Learn more. Seashore Trolley Museum’s new Maine Central Model Railroad building is now open year-round. The exhibit is open Thursdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. this winter and spring.

In 2024, Illinois' I-Cash unclaimed property program returned nearly $299 million in missing money to its rightful owners, the Illinois State Treasurer said Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day and ...

After No. 17 Illinois was utterly manhandled by an unranked Maryland team at home Thursday, Illini coach Brad Underwood sent a message – both direct and indirect – to his entire club about the ...

The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden railroad spike that was used in a celebration commemorating the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. The item was ...

The Station Hall at York's National Railway Museum is set to reopen, in the year that the museum celebrates its fiftieth birthday - with a grand reopening, and events, planned. Station Hall ...

Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana, Alaska. (Alaska State Library via AP) The Anchorage Museum is shown Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska.

The National Railway Museum, in York, says it will reopen its Station Hall in September this year, following completion of a £10.5m refurbishment project. The exhibition space has been closed to ...