page_title: Monticello Railway Museum
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Monticello Railway Museum / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Mueseum train at Monticello Railway Museum, Illinois, USA
context_page_description: The Monticello Railway Museum is a non-profit railroad museum located in Monticello, Illinois, about 18 miles west of Champaign, IL. It is home to over 100 pieces of railroad equipment, including several restored diesel locomotives and cars.
context_section_description: The museum offers a tourist railroad which operates excursion trains over a former railroad line that was owned by Illinois Terminal and Illinois Central Gulf. For a donation, guests can operate one of the locomotives during the "Throttle Time" program. Trains run May through October and on holidays.
  The Camp Creek yard was originally built by the museum's volunteers.  The Terminal Division is a re-built Illinois Terminal right-of-way running from Camp Creek up to Blacker's towards White Heath.  The Central Division was purchased by the museum from the Illinois Central.  The Central Division purchase allowed the museum to enter into downtown Monticello to the historic Wabash Railroad depot and is the mainline of the museum's heritage railroad. The Central Division is currently being restored up to White Heath to allow occasional operation into that town.  Only a short section of the Terminal Division is currently in use from the central switch down past Nelson's Crossing depot into Camp Creek yard, but has been restored to within a few miles of White Heath.
caption: The museum's most notable locomotive, Wabash Railroad F7A #1189, operates a tourist train.
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