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Just a horse furry/brony who likes trains. Currently 32 years old. I volunteer at the Illinois Railway Museum in their steam department. Want to chat, my discord is below Discord: Matt3985 https://linktr.ee/matt3985?utm_source=linktree_pr
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I finally made a new YouTube video. Enjoy everyone youtu.be/Am-geJK5h-s?...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to this years Happy Holiday Railway. (Part 2)

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to this years Happy Holiday Railway. (Part 1)

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to our upcoming Christmas Event coming up at the Illinois Railway Museum. Be sure to get your tickets

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Wish they would allow me to share my longer videos as my best ones are more than 60 seconds long. Oh well here is a little video I took of a brass engine I purchase. Unfortunately the grey NYC cars are not mine

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Whilst I’m disappointed with the election results today, at least I got my love of trains to distract me from whatever is going to happen in these next 4 years.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Again I apologize for the lake of activity, I’ve been very busy with volunteering at my museum and with life, I will try and be more active here when I can

submitted 138 days ago • 3 comments

I apologize for my inactivity, I’ve been very busy with my full time job and volunteering at my train museum but I’m still alive. I will try to be a bit more active on here when I can, meanwhile, here is a photo I took yesterday since we were having our vintage car show at my museum.

submitted 217 days ago • 2 comments

Built in 1935, this is a “butter dish” milk car, so called because of its unusual Art Deco-inspired shape. It was designed for hauling fresh milk inside of large glass-lined tanks. After the transportation of milk had switched to over-the-road trucking, this car was used to transport glue products.

submitted 327 days ago • 2 comments

Also from last weeks Saturday switching out of barn 3 was our Chicago Great Western X38 is a Russell snow plow built for clearing snow off of the railroad tracks. It is not powered, but rather was designed to be pushed by a locomotive. The shape allows it to push snow off to either side of the track

submitted 353 days ago • 0 comments

On Saturday, some stuff was moved outside of barn 3 as some track work needs to be done, one of the pieces of equipment brought out is #7, built by Baldwin in 1926 for the Public Service Co., of Northern Illinois at Waukegan, IL. It was the first steam locomotive donated to the museum in 1961.

submitted 357 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a unique one, this 1947 Dodge 4-door sedan was equipped with special wheels that rode on the tracks. It was used by Milwaukee Road officials to travel along the railroad. This car is a precursor to today’s “highrail” pickup truck, widely used by American railroads. It was retired in 1961.

submitted 371 days ago • 2 comments

Had a fun time working with our C&NW Wrecker Crane on Saturday at the museum.

submitted 371 days ago • 0 comments

Our Illinois Central 2-6-0 3719 is starting to look much better now than when it first came into the shop.

submitted 381 days ago • 1 comment

Here are my thoughts on this years Super Bowl…. Let’s GO CUBS!!!

submitted 392 days ago • 3 comments

Couldn’t go to the museum today so I went to my museum yesterday after work to work on some model trains.

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Also our museum got a new passenger car back on Saturday. Milwaukee Road “Buffeteria” dining car 126 built in Milwaukee in 1948. Originally the car was a streamlined 48-seat diner with a full kitchen. In 1964, the railroad rebuilt car 126 and two others as “Buffeteria” dining cars.

submitted 397 days ago • 0 comments

So sorry for the delayed response on my mom but she got back from the hospital on Friday night and is back home now and she is better now. Thanks everyone for your concerns.

submitted 397 days ago • 0 comments

Just found out my mom is in the hospital right now In the emergency room. 😞

submitted 401 days ago • 4 comments

The day after on Sunday I finally got around to making a new YouTube video. This is from our Steam Into Fall event from last year. Hope you all enjoy it. youtu.be/ltevZ3BmzN8?...

submitted 413 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry for the long absence everyone, the bad winter weather has kept me away from the museum but on Saturday I finally managed to head out to IRM. My first task of 2024 was cleaning superheater units in the smokebox of 1630. It’s a dirty job but I love doing it.

submitted 413 days ago • 3 comments

@calypsozebra.bsky.social hey do you use discord? You want to chat on discord? My discord username is Matt3985. :)

submitted 424 days ago • 1 comment

With all the recent snow we had recently. I decided to share these photos I took of our cosmetically restored Union Pacific Rotary Snowplow in its natural environment… Snow!!! Although it’s currently not operational it’s still an impressive sight after a lot of hard work we put into it.

submitted 424 days ago • 4 comments

Merry Christmas Everyone :)

submitted 442 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday was the last day of our Happy Holiday Railway Event, here are some photos I took during the event (Part 9)

submitted 442 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday was the last day of our Happy Holiday Railway Event, here are some photos I took during the event (Part 8)

submitted 442 days ago • 0 comments