IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs

Jdelhaye · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:08 pm

The Illinois Railway Museum has just announced the acquisition of three more historic Diesels, Union Pacific ALCO C-855's 60, 60B, and 61. Rumored to have been scrapped in 1972, the locomotives were instead purchased and hidden inside a Council Bluffs, Iowa cold storage warehouse by a wealthy fan. Having recently been overhauled, the trio will be entering service at IRM later this spring.

Jeff

robertmacdowell · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:23 pm

Darn it! IRM always gets all the good stuff.

Howard P. · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:45 pm

Especially anything big and yellow, with "UNION PACIFIC" on the side.....

Good thing your mainline is rather straight. If it wasn't, these beasts would make it so....

Will you guys have to buy another corn field to make room??

Howard P.
Envious, CT

Mark Jordan · **Joined:** Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:21 am **Posts:** 490

As I understand it, these units were originally headed to Cass. However, the management there decided that although they had the required power, they ultimately would not prove successful on the Bald Knob run.

Mark

wsflco · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:56 pm

Too bad delivery will be delayed until they can retrofit the "alignment" couplers.
Chris

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:58 pm

The bad news: Thanks to these locos and their fuel appetite, the fare for IRM demonstration excursions will be $37.50 per person in 2009.

car57 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:49 pm

Oh yeah this is the same guy that stored the coal turbine in his garden shed.

April again

mike

Jdelhaye · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:12 pm

Well, if I was gonna tell a "fish story", I figured it may as well be a real "whale" of a story....

...And yes, we IRM people do love our big, yellow, UP "2-headed calves".

Jeff

(Trivia question: Where did I quote the "2-headed calf" remark from?)

Howard P. · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:34 pm

Oh, geez, that's a real easy one. From the "Aarne-Gram", of course. Which is much-missed, at least here in New England.

Howard P.
Droll, CT

k5ahudson · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:30 am **Posts:** 773

Who got the New York Central Hudson that was stashed away in the same warehouse?

car57 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:59 pm

The same guy that found the series 1 and 2 turbines and the other 3 UP 4-12-2's, in the understairs cupboard.