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Trains News Wire EXCLUSIVE: UP donates B40-8 to Illinois Railway Museum
Fantastic! Can’t wait to go back.
Good grief, I am getting old… these children are now museum pieces…
Great acquisition tho.
It is nice to see this locomotive donated to a museum. It used to be only older locomotives, but now, other types are being saved. Great job UP and Illinois Railway Museum!
Pretty awesome, wondering if they will repaint her in cotton belt colors eventually?
That would be great to see it in its original Cotton Belt paint and number.
Love the dash 8 series, have a bunch on my HO layout.
Great act of preservation by the UP
If only Union Pacific had been this wise to donate a set of Alco PA’s and PB.
Will be looking forward to seeing here in the morning, I will have to take lots of pix
Please repaint to SSW since UP has no Cotton Belt heritage loco
Please repaint to SSW since UP has no Cotton Belt heritage loco
Please reprint to SSW since UP has no Cotton Belt heritage loco
I’m glad UP is willing to donate it! Maybe they will donate the twins when their time is near? 
PEV from Texas,
Where would UP get the PA and PB?
MOP, TNO SP and DRGW disposed of theirs and I’d be surprised to learn that any were not scrap metal on the day of Amtrak’s birth.
The lead unit of UP’s coal fueled gas turbine was a modified PA but I think UP got it on the 2nd hand market or from a scrapper.
UP had a fleet of FA and FB’s but if any survived the 60’s?..
TY from IL,
What “twins”?..
I think this unit can still be used by UP or some other line
I’ll have mine in Cotton Belt paint, please…
the group im with could use a new paint job on three old up cars.
Yesterday’s new trains, today’s museum pieces.
The Electroliner of my childhood. At Union.
A C&NW Commuter Streamliner, still in service in that form when I started work at Northern Illinois. At Union.
Now a diesel built after I earned tenure. At Union.
Fortunately, I’m still in shape to go there and check out the collection.
these things should have come off the assembly line and straight to the junkyard.I’d take ANY Alco RS over one of these rolling junkpiles.