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.

Turn at the stoplight onto Iron Horse Place at the Best Western Gateway Inn, and follow the frontage road to the end.

The Monticello Railway Museum, a not-for-profit educational organization, was founded in 1966 as "SPUR, Inc" (Society for the Perpetuation of Unretired Railfans, Inc).

Its original goal was to encourage the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad to continue operating its steam-powered railfan excursions.

[2] When that effort failed, the organization decided to operate its own steam-powered excursions and began a search for equipment and a suitable location.

For such an operation, ICRR would require SPUR's equipment to be in "ICC condition" and use the railroad's union train crews.

The first land purchased was about five miles (8 km) of former Illinois Terminal interurban right of way between Monticello and White Heath.

The volunteers prepared the yard area for the arrival of locomotive #1 and moved it from the Heritage Center's lot in Monticello.

Through the years track was laid on the former Illinois Terminal interurban grade toward White Heath until approximately 2+1⁄2 miles was completed.

The contest remained at the museum using a piano on the back of a caboose and the audience in lawn chairs around it for about ten years, until it was moved to the football field of Monticello High School.

The line was moved west onto a fill, straightened, and a new steel bridge was built over what was the Illinois Central Railroad (now Monticello Railway Museum trackage).