I took this photo on a June 1986 visit to the Illinois Railway Museum locateed in Union Illinois. Seen here are three classic examples of 1st Generation EMD diesel locomotives recieving some maintenance at one of the museum barns. The silver diesel locomotive is from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. It is the sole surviving EMD E-5 passenger cab unit diesel, and was built in 1941. The second cab unit seen in orange and maroon paint, is Milwaukee Road EMD F-7 # 118C built in 1951. The last unit to the left in green and yellow paint, is a 1953 built EMD GP-7 from the Illinois Terminal Railroad. These were some of the early mass production diesel locomotives, that spelled the end of the line for steam locmotives on North American railroads.Friday, November 23, 2007
Classic EMD. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. June 1986.
I took this photo on a June 1986 visit to the Illinois Railway Museum locateed in Union Illinois. Seen here are three classic examples of 1st Generation EMD diesel locomotives recieving some maintenance at one of the museum barns. The silver diesel locomotive is from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. It is the sole surviving EMD E-5 passenger cab unit diesel, and was built in 1941. The second cab unit seen in orange and maroon paint, is Milwaukee Road EMD F-7 # 118C built in 1951. The last unit to the left in green and yellow paint, is a 1953 built EMD GP-7 from the Illinois Terminal Railroad. These were some of the early mass production diesel locomotives, that spelled the end of the line for steam locmotives on North American railroads.
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