You'll be glad to know that for a limited time, you too have the opportunity to own a piece of IRM history! Or, at the very least, a piece of something that came from IRM. IRM is having an auction! Click that link, bid early, and bid often. There isn't quite as much rolling stock for sale as in the infamous 1982 auction (if we ask nicely, maybe my father can dig out his flyer from that event and scan it in), but the museum is selling one car from the collection, the ex-C&NW 4-8-4 tender-converted-to-water-car shown above. There are also other such prize items as railroad lanterns, historic light fixtures, a cheese box, toolboxes, tools, fasteners, spikes, cookware, telephones, artwork, a fare register, a window air conditioner, a truck, and a gavel. It's everything you could ever possibly need to run a railroad museum.
Don't delay - the auction only runs until Friday the 17th. Tell your friends, repost the link, etc.!
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If only I knew where to dig.... Anyway, the 1982 auction is described on p. 4 of R&W issue 108, which you can read on the IRM website. It paid for the extension of what is now Barn 9. The most interesting thing to be sold, as I recall, was Louisiana Cypress #2, a tiny 2-8-0 logging engine that has had a long and complicated history.
Another museum that sold some steam locomotives was Mid-Continent. Several of the locos that they sold went to the steam collection at Sugar Creek, Ohio. And on the electric side the Orange Empire Railway Museum sold three streetcars back to the SF Muni. They used the money to build a large car barn. And as noted recently, they sent a V&T passenger car back to the Nevada State Railraod Museum. TM an IRM Member for 2025
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