{"id":4984,"date":"2024-01-25T05:37:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2024-01-25T05:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:37:48","slug":"illinois-railway-museum-acquires-cnw-bi-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=4984","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Railway Museum Acquires C&amp;NW Bi-Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>By Railfan &amp; Railroad Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Illinois Railway Museum took delivery in early January of two ex-Chicago &amp; North Western bi-level coaches that at one time operated in and out of Chicago. The acquisition gives the museum in Union, Ill., a fleet of six C&amp;NW commuter cars representing all of the major types of bi-levels the railroad once owned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both cars were built by Pullman-Standard. The older of the two is Metra 7716, built in 1960 as C&amp;NW 65, while the newer car is Metra 7734, built in 1961 as C&amp;NW 83. The two cars were purchased from the Hocking Valley Scenic Railroad in Ohio. Both cars are in great condition and just need paint. The IRM\u2019s C&amp;NW bi-level collection now features examples of all the major sub-types of C&amp;NW bi-levels, including two cars from the railroad\u2019s group of 1955-vintage St. Louis Car Company bi-levels, one car from the 1956 group of \u201csix-window\u201d Pullman-built bi-level coaches, the first of the 1960-vintage Pullman-built cab cars, and now two of the post-1960 type of \u201cfour-window\u201d Pullman-built bi-level coaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The cars arrived in Union on January 10, and will now be repainted into C&amp;NW green and yellow to join the other cars, which are frequently led by F7A 411.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/railfan.com\/illinois-railway-museum-acquires-cnw-bi-levels\/\">Illinois Railway Museum Acquires C&amp;NW Bi-Levels<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/railfan.com\/\">Railfan &amp; Railroad Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Railfan &amp; Railroad Staff The Illinois Railway Museum took delivery in early January of two ex-Chicago &amp; North Western bi-level coaches that at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}