- Revenue 2024
- $305,465
- Expenses 2024
- $389,438
Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A540
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 315
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Preserve, advance and disseminate knowledge of the history of railway transportation. Accordingly, the Corporation shall operate and maintain a museum, which features historic railway equipment. The Corporation shall engage in those activities necessary for the successful management of the museum, these activities including acquisition, preservation, display and operation of historic railway vehicles for the public.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To operate a museum that preserves and interprets Chicago's electric transport era through operation of historic railway vehicles on its demonstration electric railway and display of related artifacts, photos, and documents.
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The museum preserves, interprets, and operates historic railway vehicles on its demonstration electric railway, over the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric route at South Elgin, Illinois. Furthermore, the museum preserves, displays and interprets smaller artifacts, photos, oral histories, and documents which help relate the importance of electric transport in and around the Chicago Metropolitan Area, putting them in context with their surroundings and era. Over 6,800 visitor rides were provided for this experience in 2024.
Expenses $334,215 · Revenue $199,777
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Bernard Rohling
President & Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Patrick Storm
Vice-President & Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Douglas Rundell
Treasurer & Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Christopher Nelson
Secretary & Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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James Tarbet
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $305,465
- Expenses
- $389,438
- Contributions
- $102,173
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $327,153
- Expenses
- $337,543
- Contributions
- $135,482
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $348,481
- Expenses
- $336,523
- Contributions
- $174,102
- Grants paid
- $0
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $281,547
- Expenses
- $214,658
- Assets (EOY)
- $653,205
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $117,892
- Expenses
- $271,324
- Assets (EOY)
- $496,910
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2022 GENERAL SUPPRT
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2023 ILLINOIS CORONAVIRUS FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
- Exemption revoked 15 May 2013, reinstated 15 May 2013.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.