Every year, the Kaskaskia Valley Railway holds an Annual Fall Operating Session over Saturday and Sunday (they also host one in the spring).

Ric and Jan Golding host a very fun event.   They use RailOps software for the control of car movement and radios for dispatching. It is a weekend ops session with both days starting around noon and going until nobody is running trains anymore. The setup starts on Friday and sometimes Thursday, but the actual event is  Saturday and Sunday.  The goal is to run 18 trains to a schedule; sometimes more, sometimes left.  Either way, there is lots of food and its a lot of fun.