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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 .
Metra train 624, nicknamed “The Flyer” consisted of Metra Nippon Sharyo bilevel cab car 8751, six Nippon Sharyo bilevel passenger railcars and Metra F40PH locomotive number 148, owned by Metra and operated by Union Pacific. The train was in push mode, with the engineer operating the locomotive from the cab car at the front of the train, and ...
Operational at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois EMD demonstrator unit [17] 17597 Rock Island 4506 October 1952 GP7R Chicago and North Western Transportation Company; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Operational at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois [18] 18707 Illinois Terminal 1605 August 1953 GP7
1856 Great Train Wreck of 1856, Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania; 60+ killed plus 100+ injured. Encouraged busier railroads in the Eastern U.S. to double track lines; also led to mandatory use of telegraph in cases of delays [9] 1859 South Bend train wreck, Mishawaka/South Bend, Indiana; 42 killed plus 50 injured [10] [11]
Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah [1] 838: December 1944 American Locomotive Company (ALCO) FEF-3 4-8-4 In storage as source of spare parts Union Pacific Railroad, Cheyenne, Wyoming: 844: December 1944 American Locomotive Company (ALCO) FEF-3 4-8-4 Operational Union Pacific Railroad, Cheyenne, Wyoming: 1242: T-57 4-6-0 Static display ...
November 12 – United States – At Evanston, Wyoming, on the Union Pacific Railroad, a rear-end collision of the trains City of Los Angeles and City of San Francisco kills 17 people, [34] or kills 26 people and injures 200. [33] November 25 – United States – A head-on collision on the Southern Railway kills 17 people. [34]
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 2007. CO-22 Union Pacific 4455 0-6-0 1920 built Photographed at Colorado Railroad Museum in 2007. CO-23 Big Boy Union Pacific #4005
1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash; C. 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash; ... 1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck; Greater Grand Crossing rail collision; H. Harvey ...