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Illinois Railway Museum

2013-05-22T17:42:00.002-07:00

Friday, ‎August ‎19, ‎2011 I visited the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM). Here are some of the photos I took there and I will try to add all of the info about these locomotives or cars that I know. I am also using the IRM's roster for info. I will post the individual links with the photos.

Chicago Transit Authority 2153 made by Pullman-Standard built in 1964
http://www.irm.org/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi?rapid=Chicago+Transit+Authority=2153

CB&Q 9255 (http://www.irm.org/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi?diesel=Chicago+Burlington+&+Quincy=9255), CB&Q 3007 (http://www.irm.org/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi?steam=Chicago+Burlington+&+Quincy=3007), and a unknown Brown Hoist crane sit outside of one of the sheds

Union Pacific Gas Turbine built by G.E. in 1960.

The UP loco next to Soo Line caboose number X5001 and A.T.S.F. 543 made by Fairbanks Morse and is a H12-44TS

UP 18

ATSF 543

Some passenger cars. If you look far back you can see the C&NW bi-level cars

Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific (Milwaukee Road) 118C F-7A made by GM

A BN E-9AM

Some old CTA cars where switching tracks

Another BN E-9AM, C&NW 4160 (EMD GP-7R), and a Commonwealth Edison #15

Wig-Wag crossing

A random horn on a passenger car

Wisconsin Electric Power Company #L4

C&NW 411 (F-7A built in 1949)

Cb&Q's Zephyr

CB&Q SD-24 #504 built in 1959

CB&Q 9255 (http://www.irm.org/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi?diesel=Chicago+Burlington+&+Quincy=9255)

Illinois Terminal GP-7 #1605 built in 1953

Observatory on the back of the Zephyr

Chicago South Shore & South Bend #803 built in 1949

Louisiana midland boxcar

The Thomas train with Southern Pacific 1518 (SD-7)

What big wheels!

Union Pacific Railroad DDA-40X #6930

YouTube and Updates

2013-05-16T18:48:00.002-07:00

Its been kinda long since I put anything up because of the lack of footage. Also I now have a YouTube account that you can access here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BNKATO

2012-09-23T14:34:00.001-07:00

Railfanning

UP 1995

2012-09-23T09:53:00.000-07:00

I got to see the Union Pacific Chicago And Northwestern heritage unit # 1995.

A Hour at Deval Tower

2012-09-23T09:01:00.000-07:00

I got the opportunity to go to Deval Tower in Des Plaines.

Train 1#: Metra F40PH-2 City of Zion #152 with 6 cars is heading north-west to Cumberland on the UP Harvard Sub.

Train #2: CITX 3083 SD40-2, ICE 6091 SD40-2, and CP 5995 SD40-2 are heading south on the UP "New Line" to proviso yard to transport the last goods before the Forth of July.

Train #3: UP 4221 SD70m

UP 9543 C41-8w

CN 8869 SD70m-2

UP 675 GP38-2

HLCX 342 GP38-2

UP 2070 GP60

Railfanning in HO scale

2012-06-15T09:49:00.000-07:00

I put this together using pinnacle studio. I am going to use pinnacle studio for my video editing software.

Union Pacific Supprise

2012-05-16T17:05:00.000-07:00

I luckily got to film this special UP train. It was special because although UP owns the line there is just about no freight on the line. All the line usually sees is passenger trains (Metra).

Engine 1:

UP 8-41CW 9444

Engine 2

UP AC44CWCTE 5636

Engine 3
UP AC44CW 6679

Engine 4
UP AC44CW 6204

Layout update 5 part 2

2012-05-07T04:53:00.001-07:00

Watch part 1

I can't get the video to upload so I will tell you. I am redoing my track. All of my track.

Layout update 5 part 1

2012-04-17T14:15:00.000-07:00

I have been doing a few things around the layout, but I have one major surprise...

Second time railfanning with pictures.

2012-03-10T14:52:00.001-08:00

I went by the Union Pacific "New Line" in North Brook and saw three Union Pacific SD90s come and then idle on top of a bridge (edit: at Shemer Juntion). They were idling for at least 2 hours. Sorry for the bad quality.
edit: Locos:
1. UNKNOWN (Blocked in every photo, tough luck)
2. UP 8123 (EMD SD9043MAC)
3. UP 8182 (EMD SD9043MAC)

Some pictures were taken with a 3DS.

First time railfanning!!

2012-02-29T17:24:00.002-08:00

I went down to the station December 29, 2011 to go railfanning and to get some cool action. I saw 5 trains. Enjoy.

Train 1: Inbound Metra F40PH 154 City Of North Chicago.

Train 2: Outbound Metra F40PH 125 DuPage County with some nice Nathan P5 action.

Train 3: Inbound Metra F40PH 172 Village of Berkeley.

Train 4: Inbound Metra F40PH 164 express Bracside.

Update

2011-10-26T17:16:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't blogged for a long time. I just don't have a good editing program and it takes me a hour just to make a video that is 5 minutes long.

N scale layout

2011-09-13T18:02:00.000-07:00

Kato has just released the Metra MP36 and Bi-level cars (http://www.katousa.com/N/SS-Bilevel/index.html) and they are amazing. I want them but it is in N scale and as you know I do HO so I decided maybe to make an N scale layout.

The other train

2011-07-31T19:45:00.000-07:00

Railpower 1300

2011-07-31T19:31:00.000-07:00

First time railfanning!!

2011-07-30T17:07:00.000-07:00

Today while I was going to my hobby shop with my dad we stopped to get gas and I herd the bells for the gates then the horn. I never herd the horn before so I thought it was freight. When the train came it was a Metra MP36ph! I never saw it before. When we started driving we saw it and the station so we raced it and got to a crosssing right before it came so I grabbed my 3DS and took these awesome photos and here they are:

This is the freight cars and I think a GP38 .

The train is comming and one ditch light is on and the other is off.

The train coming closer.

The train coming through. You can see the cab car.

The Metra MP36 leaving Railroad crossing. This is my favorite photo and its a good photo.

The MP36 leaving in the distance.

Train slide show

2011-07-26T13:21:00.000-07:00

This is a video of how my ho scale train layout looked while getting put together. I will post another video when I put alot more pictures in the video.

Layout update 4

2011-07-26T12:40:00.000-07:00

3DS Nintendo videos

2011-07-26T06:53:00.000-07:00

fun with at&t all natural voices

2011-07-24T14:12:00.000-07:00

Layout update 3.5

2011-07-21T06:47:00.000-07:00

Here's another video from like a month ago.

Layout update 3

2011-07-17T09:59:00.000-07:00

Here is layout update 3. I would have posted it earlier but my hard drive for my computer crashed. I go another hard drive so I'm good now.

layout update #2

2011-06-10T13:22:00.000-07:00

Ho crashes

2011-06-10T13:09:00.000-07:00

Ho cars, trucks and more V.S. Metra F40PH 163.

Kato BI-Level Passenger Car Chicago RTA 4-Window coach

2011-06-10T12:55:00.000-07:00

There aren't many reviews about it so I decided to make one.