The Illinois Railroad Museum Part 1: Gearing up for the day

In Part 1, you will see operations at the IRM as the museum is opened up in the early morning. See Metra F7 pushing a line of equipment and interurban 714 arriving the depot. Enjoy!

[@ACLTony]

Smooth sounding classic Leslie A-200 "honker" horn on that F-unit.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Yes, it was owned by metra and before that, C&NW.

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

That Metra F7 sure can use a new paint job to repaint the Metra blue red and white

[@ACLTony]

Good to see the ex-Burlington Northern executive F-units. They were rebuilt and repowered but on a business train trip one day, the new BNSF executive (Krebbs?) became upset when the train had to stop for fuel because of the F-units small fuel tanks. He immedietly ordered that they be "got ridden of". Hence, now the BNSF office car/business train is usually powered by modern six axle units, which of course have large fuel tanks.

[@trainamtrakcsx]

was that actually a metra unit or did the musaem paint it like that

[@ns_railfanner7299]

Omg u were in Illinois can u come to ofallon Missouri

[@falko73]

they got a milwaukee road locomotive? thatscool i!