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Illinois Oil Field Museum: Oblong: Crawford: Southern: Industry: Oil industry tools and equipment, Illinois Basin and surrounding areas of the oil boom era and the oil industry of that area [38] [39] Illinois Railway Museum: Union: McHenry: Northern Illinois: Railway: Includes steam, diesel and electric trains and heritage train rides
Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois. [28] 2804: June 1966 General Electric (GE) U28C: C-C Static display National Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri: Sectioned 3105: June 1979 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) SD40-2C: C-C Static display RailGiants Train Museum, in Pomona, California. [29] 6900: April 1969 Electro-Motive Division ...
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 .
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A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
No. 6323 was constructed in February 1942 by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York as the twelfth member of the Grand Trunk Western's U-3-b class. The U-3-bs were a class of 4-8-4 "Northerns"(or "Confederation" types as sometimes referred to by the GTW) that were primarily used for fast freight and passenger trains.
The Naperville train disaster occurred April 25, 1946, on the Chicago, ... Naperville, IL Disastrous Train Wreck, Apr 1946 Archived 2010-10-07 at the Wayback Machine;
The westbound Advance Flyer, another train operated by the CB&Q, made an emergency stop in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois just short of the CB&Q depot. The Exposition Flyer , travelling at around 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) a short distance behind on the same track, rear-ended the Advance Flyer .