Museum equipment being switched in the yard. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. November 1976.

I found this old photo while rumaging through some of My old Family photographs recently.

My Family and I, visited the Illinois Railway Museum in early November of 1976. This could have been the last weekend of operation for the season, as the only equipment still taking passengers for demonstration rides, was a couple of electric streetcars that day.

This photograph shows one of the many behind the scenes support operations of a large railroad museum, as a large cut of museum equipment, is being spotted on various sidings and shop track leads in the museum's display yard. Winter will be approaching shortly in upcoming weeks as the bare trees and brown grass indicate. In the wintertime, the museum is closed to the public, and various repairs to equipment, tune ups, maintenance, painting and infrustructure improvements take place. Although it is the "Off Season", there is still activity to be had here.