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2. Illinois Railway Museum - Wikipedia

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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 .

3. The Great Train Story - Wikipedia

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   The Great Train Story is a 3,500-square-foot (330 m 2) HO scale model railroad display located in the Transportation Zone of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. It explains the story of modern-day rail transportation in a 2,206-mile (3,550 km) journey from Seattle, Washington, through several plains states en route to Chicago, Illinois.

4. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Chicago Great Western Railroad Depot Museum: Elizabeth: Jo Daviess: Northern Illinois: Railroad: Operated by the Elizabeth Historical Society, includes N-scale, HO-scale, and G-scale model railroad layouts: Chicago History Museum: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: Local history: City history and culture: Chicago Maritime Museum: Chicago: Cook ...

5. List of preserved locomotives in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: Donated to the museum in 2018. CO-19 West Side Lumber Company #12 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-20 West Side Lumber Company #14 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-21 Royal Gorge 40 2-8-0 1921 built Photographed at Colorado Railroad Museum in ...

6. List of historical passenger rail services in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: PRR 1861–1869 1858–1861 St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad: Chicago & Alton 1857–1862 Joliet and Chicago Railroad / Chicago and Mississippi Railroad: St.LA&C 1856–1857 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: BN: 1881–1970 1856–1881 1855–1856 Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana ...

7. Fox River Trolley Museum - Wikipedia

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   The majority of the museum collection is focused on railways and electric transit lines of the Chicago area. One of the most exceptional cars in this collection is the wooden interurban (inter-city) Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad car #20, purchased directly from CA&E after that railroad discontinued passenger service. [12]

8. Museum Campus/11th Street station - Wikipedia

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   Museum Campus/11th Street (formerly Roosevelt Road) is a commuter rail station in downtown Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line north to Millennium Station and south to University Park, Blue Island and South Chicago; and the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana. Most South Shore Line trains stop at the station, and all but ...

9. Electroliner - Wikipedia

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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.