{"id":16116,"date":"2016-07-21T04:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T08:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16116"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:27:57","slug":"a-visit-to-the-illinois-railway-museum-hello-old-friend-what-are-you-doing-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/a-visit-to-the-illinois-railway-museum-hello-old-friend-what-are-you-doing-here\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to the Illinois Railway Museum: \u201cHello old Friend, What are YOU doing here?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Illinois Railway Museum has one of the best collections of North American railway equipment. Hundreds of pieces of equipment spanning more than a century are on display.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s great to be able to inspect a traditional 4-4-0, and a Forney Tank engine. I\u2019m fond of classics such as the Santa Fe 2900-class 4-8-4, Burlington\u2019s 4-6-4 Hudson and its streamlined Budd-built Nebraska Zephyr<\/em>, and of course the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 in Brunswick green.<\/p>\n

\"Chicago,
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4-6-4 at IRM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric 4929. A masterpiece of engineering and design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I
I recall the GG1s under wire. Great sounding air horn on these.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Budd
Budd stainless steel. And articulated too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My
My book on streamlined trains came out last year and so \u00a0it was nice to reflect on these amazing machines in the museum. (Puns are extra).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Some
Some of the old girls still work; this Frisco 2-10-0 is serviceable. Just add coal, water and talent!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Parts
Parts anyone?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sister
Sister to the popular Milwaukee Road 261 is engine 265. Sure would be neat to get both engines under steam together!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lots
Lots of electrics under the barns. PCC’s have been a regular feature on Tracking the Light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The old diesels are neat, and there\u2019s great array of old streetcars.<\/p>\n

But then, what\u2019s this? A Wisconsin Central SD45? Wow, nice to see that one of those was saved, but it just doesn\u2019t seem that long ago and I was out catching these on the mainline.<\/p>\n

And wait, what about this Metra Bi-Level electric? Weird to see THAT in a museum.<\/p>\n

Two Chicago & North Western DASH9s!<\/p>\n

Now I just feel old.<\/p>\n

Views exposed with my FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera with Zeiss 12mm Tuoit.<\/p>\n

\"A
A former Santa Fe Alco RSD-15. These must have looked great hauling freight back in the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eight
Eight motors, four in each truck, that’s what the DDA40X was all about.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"An
An Wisconsin Central SD45. Twenty years ago when I lived in Waukesha, Wisconsin I could hear these roar through town from my apartment. I spent lots of time putting these beast on film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"It's
It’s like Galesburg Railroad Days! The BN executive Fs! Always cool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Whoa!
Whoa! What’s this? A Metra electric? Hmm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Two
Two Chicago & North Western DASH9s. Really?! It just doesn’t seem that long ago that I sat in the cab of one these when they still had that ‘new car smell’. And now they too are on display in a museum. Will anyone save a P40?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Illinois Railway Museum has one of the best collections of North American railway equipment. Hundreds of pieces of equipment spanning more than a century are on display. It\u2019s great to be able to inspect a traditional 4-4-0, and a Forney Tank engine. I\u2019m fond of classics such as the Santa Fe 2900-class 4-8-4, Burlington\u2019s … Continue reading A Visit to the Illinois Railway Museum: \u201cHello old Friend, What are YOU doing here?\u201d<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3786,4537,215,2043,3674,3676,619,3675],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Diesel_line_up_IRM_DSCF9996.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4bW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16119,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116\/revisions\/16119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}