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.

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.

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

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.

My discord name is in my profile description

Who is it so I can block them? I really need to go thru my follow list and clean it up:

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.

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

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

I know but since I’m a Chicago CUBS Fan, I thought I liked this one better.