I had my 7th birthday party at the IRM back in 1978. :)

Pretty Cool Mark. I know you had a Blast.

It's a nice museum i belonged to it and worked on different things for 25 years had a good time, but with a business to run had to move on 👍

Love the IRM! Hope to get back there soon! Thanks for sharing! ❤

Dang I could have seen you there I went 2 days ago it’s a realy cool place rode on a streetcar and an 0-6-2 :)

Awesome 👏

Union Pacific’s Belvidere Subdivision ( built as the main line of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad, later the Chicago & Northwestern ) paralleling IRM’s mainline. Speaking of IRM’s mainline, it was originally built as the Elgin & Belvidere Electric Railway ( 1907-1930 )…glad that these pieces of history remain!

This is my favorite railroad museum. I'm about 400 miles away so I don't get there very often.

Mayday! (10:25) If that switch was on my MODEL railroad...I'd have a bunch of cars on the ground...

Looks like the Alco switcher is likely an S3 or S4 based on the trucks. Couldn't make out the stack arrangement for turbocharger or not?

That’s crazy! New sub here!

Yrs ago I was with my friend Richard jett in Ill and my oldest brother wanted us to go the museum somewhere south of Rock Island but we found a small museum and trains but the video you put out is probably the one we should have been at because we were looking for the Rock Island Line witch it was in the video of yours...Thanks

Was this run a train thing they have?

For several years I was the engineer for a local scenic RR. I drove a GE 44 tonner, built in 1941. !! Had 2 Cummins diesel engines, 300 hp each.

Great video. It was really great to see a variety of perspectives of railroading. Thank you for sharing your experience.

❤ 2 strok class y 2 6 tonish roolish on u good luck. 🎉. ❤❤

Thank you so much for sharing, I do want to see this place considering I'm only 20 minutes away from Union Illinois

None that we as humans know of the dark star will suck everything in, including lite itself gravity pull to strong even lite

😯10:25 That switch (turnout) is not lined up for this track. Again at 10:40.

The buckets over the stacks are to keep rain out of engine. Those locomotives can run.

California has several historic steam trains you can ride. The state has contacted them all and informed them to keep operating they need to convert the coal fired powerplant to electric. The state & fed have money to help get this done. It dont matter where you played before, California is a brand new game. !

And just so you know, that was my 20th birthday.

Great video, I’m a fan of EMD SW1500 switchers. 2:16

Great video. I could watch her all day switching.

Nice to see this ex SP Switcher in action. 6:02

Look at what a great engineer he iknows exactly what he’s doing very professional

I didn’t know you had another channel Mark. Remember when Metra had the F40cs?

What’s the ticking sound?

This a UPRR power and back in 1979 & 80 they were tore down and rebuild in the old Omaha shops..

From what I can find out about that ticking sound is that it is the moisture being blown out. The more humid it is, or the more loosely the valve is set, the more frequently it will blow out, which when happening rapidly makes a clicking sound. I guess this makes sense!?!

Nice job!

Nice Catch Mark. Lots of Container Cars. Just like your Railroad. Canadian Pacific is an Engine I'd like to add to our Collection.

What is that psst psst psst sound its making sounds like air

Best switch engines I ever ran..... Added AC? That's a nice improvement....

Very cool, know what the frequency is for this line?

That switcher engine is cool lookin.

I've heard that repower units with ECO friendly engines are the norm now. Its nice to hear that diesel rumble instead of a super quiet ECO engine.

Man, I miss th SW-1500 locomotives. When I lived in Pensacola CSXT had two based there. They were 1109 and 1110. When I first got there in 1992 they were in Seaboard Systems paint; then very early CSX; then, YN3 (dark future) paint. 1109 was my favorite. They'd leave for 92-day inspections, then show up again. Little workhorses. Finally, one day they were gone for good. Last I heard 1109 went to LTEX (Larry's Truck And Electric - or something), in Ohio. If I had won the lottery............... They came originally from L&N I'm told. I sure miss seeing those little "butt-heads". For those who love SW1500's this is a great video with really good footage of one.

What places was they switching out? Can't find specific places on maps.

I remember riding and watching these on the now defunct S.P. Burbank branch. Hope to see it converted to light rail before I cash in my chips.

Cool video

Sw 1001’s were the toughest switchers I’ve worked in and around. Two together could easily handle 100+ cars switching and drilling traffic. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_SW1001

Pretty miserable units to take on anything over 30 miles in. LIRR thinks there the cats ass to this day. I hated being in them.

Photo of SSW 2484 in 1972. espee.railfan.net/nonindex/sw1500_photos/2484_ssw-sw1500-dave_stanley.jpg

Ex-SSW 2484

SSW 2484.........4/68

ILSX 942 was sitting on the St. Croix Valley RR in east-central MN switching cars south of Harris before it left the line. This engine is a beauty.

She's a beast

Nice video love the locomotive Engine that used to be Union Pacific now a nice private yard siide Engine

It's an ex-Southern Pacific with its lighting package removed. Those flexicoil trucks allows good speeds up to 65 mph on poor tracks. It seems to have to 800 or the 1,000 gallon fuel tank.