Polsen Lumber Company # 2 in temporary storage. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. September 1982.

I took this photo at the Illinois Railway Museum during a September 1982 visit. During this time, the museum had built up quiete a surplus of equipment that wasn't needed. Some of it belonged to private individuals who had a lack of any place else to store it. Locomotive # 2 seen here, was a Baldwin 2-8-2 logging type from the Polsen Lumber Company, and in recent years...was hauling tourist trains on the now defunct Kettle Moraine Railway in Northlake Wisconsin. To raise much needed funding, the museum held a Grand Auction of their surplus equipment. Locomotive # 2 went to the Mid Continent Railway Museum at North Freedom Wisconsin, and hauled tourist trains into the 1980's and 90's. It is currently undergoing a lenghty mechanical overhaul at North freedom Wi.