Passenger Car Department

This is a solicitation of new funds for the purpose of building Barn 15. If you're wondering the price per foot, here is the expensive details. Pricing is subject to market conditions but the Building and Grounds Manager, Dave Diamond, has told me to expect the price to be around $250.00 per foot. Yes, expensive but consider the alternative of a rare piece of equipment sitting outside in all sorts of weather. Protection is the name of the game!! For example, in order to fund an 85 foot passenger car in this new building, it would cost $21,250.00. Very expensive, but well worth your donation.

Here is the list of equipment the Passenger Car Department would like to include in the new barn.

Pawnee: 83 feet

Pawnee

IC King Cotton: 82 feet

King Cotton

PRR  John Greenleaf Whittier: 82 feet

Rock Island 2612: 82 feet

2612 when it first arrived

CB&Q  Silver Ridge: 85 feet

CB&Q  Silver Pony: 85 feet

Rock Island 2524: 81 feet

2524 last coach to be restored 

Rock Island 2555: 81 feet

Milw Road 649: 85 feet

649 being unloaded

Milw Road 542: 85 feet

542 just unloaded. This coach is still under a tarp because of a large leak in the roof.

CN  Ingramport: 85 feet

Ingramport, our only CN sleeper

And our newest addition... Pullman Villa Real: 82 feet

The Illinois Railway Museum is well known for protecting its artifacts. Please consider a donation to Indoor Storage for the Coach Department.

Thanks,

Roger Kramer, Curator