This place is unbelievable! Awesome history you can touch, ride, and learn. We will definitely be back! If you love trains you will not want to leave! We had a great time here! Our 3 year old loved seeing all the trains and getting to ride on the steam engine. The little park was a nice bonus for our lunch time break. The model train museum was impressive. We learned a lot. Thank you for preserving this history!
So much fun for our little boys! They love riding the trains and they have so many old restored trains. Some of their restoration jobs are fantastic and really capture the feel of the height of rail travel. The largest railway museum in the USA β and they run demonstrations of many working trains.
They have old Pullman cars which are nicely displayed. I loved coming here as a kid with my dad and grandpa and my kids seemed to have just as much fun as I did back in the day.
We went for the Day Out with Thomas and had a great time. There were some major improvements since I was there as a kid and it looks like more are on their way. The IRM is a fantastic place. When you ride an electric streetcar, you have to wonder why they are not still used! With the same or greater capacity as a modern bus and with no vehicle emissions, they are just great. Tickets Donate Membership. All Aboard The Illinois Railway Museum is America's largest rail museum.
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