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Tuesday, March 15. 2016

Amazing Displays in the Coach Dept Posted by Roger Kramer in Passenger Car Department at 16:52

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Amazing Displays in the Coach Dept

Two weeks ago I visited the museums two display coaches and was amazed by the professionalism and artfulness of the displays. I would strongly suggest to all the members to view this attraction when next visiting the museum! It is truly a very excellent display of just a few of the many Irm railroad artifacts. To refresh your memory they are located in yard 5 on the third track. You can not miss them for they are very well marked!

Mark Gellman is placing into position one plate into the vast collection of railroad china

Mark and Mike McCraren have researched the table placement and position of railroad dining china. This is one dining car table setting.

Above is just one example of what a typical dining customer would sit down to when eating on the American railroad diner of the 20's 30's 40's and 50's. For those of you who are concerned about this displays protection, Mark and Mike have advised me that this entire table setup will be under a protective plastic canopy.

Another picture of the vast china display

A new display for this year is represent here. Pictured here are the different and vast railroad terminals that once graced the Chicago downtown area.

Partially shown here is the old Chicago and North Western RR Terminal. These displayed pictures will bring back memories for many of you!

Mike McCraren poses next to the china display. He is the other half of the excellent team that has constructed all these displays. Photo

Not only do we have a very complete railroad china display but now Mike and Mark also have recently completed another display. This beautiful display is of steam locomotive builders plates.

The above picture of builders plates was donated to the museum four years ago. I do not remember the patrons name but graciously thank him for his generosity.

This view shows our Milwaukee Road diesel 760 and an example of a Fairbanks Morse, Baldwin,and Lima Hamilton builders plates.

Thanks to Mark and Mike for taking these pictures and sending them to me so that I might blog about these outstanding and professionally created displays! Please take the time to visit them. Its well worth the viewing time. If you would consider a donation to help further the development of more displays there will be one donation canister located in each car for your convenience. You can also send in your donation either via mail or email and please mark it for Coach Department Displays. Again, thanks to Mark, Mike, Shelly, Ray, Mike Baksic for making this possible! It truly is an inspiration to all their hard work! Thanks Roger

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