The most apparent may be in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna; the museum's depot was used for several small town depot scenes and the Nebraska Zephyr and only surviving EMD E5 were used for scenes of and on the train.
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The most recent film Transformers: Age of Extinction starring Mark Wahlberg made IRM the host of several scenes will be released in 2014.
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Additionally the museum's grounds and some of the passenger cars, were used in the movie The Babe, starring John Goodman.
The "Train of the Goddess" set is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.
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Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee interurban car 251 built in 1917, is operated regularly at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.
Two are in museums, #113 at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation, and #115at the Illinois Railway Museum, however #100, owned by the Mohawk and Hudson chapter NRHS, is stored outside on an abandoned rail spur in Glenmont, New York awaiting funds for restoration.