Who doesn’t want to ride in a life-sized Thomas the Tank engine? That’s one of the items in the collection at the Illinois Railway Museum, located 50 miles northwest of Chicago in Union, Illinois. The museum was founded in 1953 by ten men who each contributed $100 to purchase Indiana Railroad 65, a recently retired interurban car that was on the verge of being scrapped. Since then, it has grown into the largest railway museum in the United States, with a collection filled with working trains including steam, diesel, and electric…
