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    AMERICAN DIESEL EXTRAVAGANZA

    Jan 02, 2020 3 minutes
    Keith Fender reports.
    NEIL AITKEN
    D LANGHAM
    D LANGHAM

    THE biggest railway museum in the USA – the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) – is located around 50 miles north-west of Chicago, and held its first UK-style diesel gala in August 2019.

    The museum has the largest and most comprehensive collection of preserved diesel locomotives in North America, numbering 54 diesel locos as well as 27 steam, 12 electric locos and nearly 100 multiple electric, trolley and subway

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