Illinois Railway Museum: Museum Showcase Weekend

[brigid]

The Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois is having a Museum Showcase Weekend on September 15th and 16th, featuring some of the less frequently run equipment at the IRM... including the Nebraska Zephyr, a caboose train, and two historic CTA trains/cars. If you or a kid (or kid at heart) in your life is into trains, that'll be a good weekend to check things out!

NOTE: the museum is mostly out of doors and is not VERY accessible. While there are designated handicap parking spaces on asphalt, most of the parking is on grass and most of the museum is outside so there's lots of walking on grass. The historic trains aren't very accessible either, with high steps and narrow doorways. Please keep that in mind. There are paved walkways and accessible toilet facilities.

Comments

[havocthecat]

There's not much shade or air conditioning at the museum either. But it's a fun site if you're a train/railway buff. (Which I am not. But I keep going with people who are.)

[brigid]

That's true, and those are important things I hadn't considered... but I'm so used to there not being much shade/AC that it didn't occur to me to point that out. :) the museum campus is a level grassy field with some buildings and some paved pathways. Not a lot of trees or anything for shade, and not a lot of indoor space to hang out in.