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The Illinois Railway Museum (IRM, reporting mark IRMX) is the largest railroad museum in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area at 7000 Olson Road in Union, Illinois , 55 miles (89 km) northwest of downtown Chicago .
Illinois Museum of Natural History, campus of Illinois State University, Old Main building, from 1857-1877; Korean War National Museum, Sangamon, closed in 2017, collections transferred to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum [82] Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, closed in 2012, collections now at the Peoria Riverfront ...
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The Electroliners are a pair of streamlined interurban trainsets built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1941. Initially numbered 801–802 and 803–804, they were operated by the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad from 1941 to 1963, followed by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (later SEPTA) from 1964 to 1978.
Union was the site of the world's first fully automatic electrical substation, on the current site of the water tower just east of Main Street. [11] Union is home to the Illinois Railway Museum and the McHenry County Historical Society. [12] It was formerly the home of Donley's Wild West Town amusement park, now closed. [13]
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway 1630 is a preserved Ye class 2-10-0 "Decapod" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. [1] Today, Frisco No. 1630 is currently one of two operating Decapods in service in America , the other being former Great Western No. 90 at the Strasburg Rail Road outside ...
1974 Illinois Central Gulf caboose (No. 199422) in service as IRM 9422 at the Indiana Railway Museum in French Lick, Indiana. [19] Illinois Central caboose on historic main street in Palestine, Illinois. One Illinois Central Caboose resides in Grayville, Illinois. Former Illinois Central "Highliner" built by Bombardier on the Metra Electric, 2002
During the summer of 1969, Jensen made several arrangements to remove No. 4963, CB&Q 4-8-4 No. 5632, and his large collection of locomotive parts and tools off the property; it involved making plans to relocate them to either the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) or the Chicago, West Pullman and Southern Railroad (CWPS), and he purchased some empty ...