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Wednesday, March 25. 2026Indoor storage after Barn 15 completion
With the completion of Barn 15, our switch crews have been extremely busy moving equipment around all the various buildings. Storage and display locations has been changed for many pieces of equipment. For example, the weekend coach train used to be stored on track 92 in Barn 9, a public display barn. That space would be vacant on the weekends while the coach train was out operating. After Barn 15, the coach train will now be stored in Barn 15 and the space it used to occupy in Barn 9 will be used for diesel locomotive display storage. This allows better utilization of the display space for the public.
 Photo: CNW 7009 stored inside Barn 9. The photo above shows Chicago and North Western 7009, an EMD SD50, stored on display inside Barn 9. 7009 is a locomotives that two donors generously covered the costs for indoor storage, which totaled a little over $31,000. Chicago and Illinois Midland 30, an EMD RS 1325, is another locomotive that one of the same donors as the 7009 also paid the indoor storage costs of about $23,000. Overall, there were 16 diesel locomotives that received donations to be stored indoors and that was all from donors like you.  Photo: CIM 30 stored inside Barn 9. There are still around a dozen diesel locomotives still stored outside and our goal is for them all to have inside storage. Inside storage is key to long term preservation. Your donations, no matter the size, will help to achieve that goal. You can donate to the indoor storage fund at this link. Thank you for supporting the Illinois Railway Museum. |
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Mon, 09-08-2025 08:22
Good job on the Burlington Nortern 9976. OK.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:56
No new news that I have heard of thus far.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:53
I'll also be doing another update on it soon. Keep en eye out for that.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:47
A little work was done to it for Diesel Days this year. You'll see photos floating around for the temporary short term job that was done to make it [...]
Wed, 08-06-2025 13:01
Is steam car CN 15444 going to be coming to museum several times it was to be moved to muesum
Sat, 07-19-2025 18:56
Yeah, sadly it's still there as of 7/19/2025
Thu, 06-12-2025 19:14
Its been 14 years guys, where is the unit? Like really? Did you guys misplace it? Or are repairs taking that long? At this point be might we will have [...]
Wed, 04-09-2025 17:40
Jamie Thanks for the update. She's gonna shine like every thing else you guys do! Smeds
Thu, 03-06-2025 16:28
Yes, there is a wye. Those two have been MU'ed on diesel days a year or two ago.
Wed, 03-05-2025 14:04
7009 number boards look good. Is there a way to turn a locomotive around at IRM? In case you ever had a mind to connect 7009 and 6847?
Fri, 03-29-2024 21:26
We're slackers and spend more time working on the equipment in the shop than keeping all you readers updated. We'll work on it, but I'm sure updates [...]
Thu, 03-14-2024 08:02
What happened to the Department Blog? It's been over 2 years and I still regularly check for updates, but nothing comes...