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Owner: Bessemer & Lake Erie
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   Operational at Illinois Railway Museum
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Bessemer & Lake Erie #25
Title:  Bessemer & Lake Erie #25
Description:  Built in 1925 by Pressed Steel Car Company. The following is from a display on the car: "A combine (short for combination) provides both passenger seating and space for baggage or express freight. The B&LE operated a 160-mile north-south route between Bessemer (near Pittsburgh) and Erie, Pennsylvania. Most of B&LEs traffic was ore, steel and heavy freight for its owner, U.S. Steel, with only limited passenger service. B&LE had less than two dozen modern steel cars in its passenger fleet. Combine 25 was one of the last two cars still in service when B&LE ended passenger operations in the late 1950s. The car was sold to the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern in 1960, which removed most of its seats and baggage racks and used it as a tool car for its wreck train. EJ&E donated the car to IRM in 1984. Restoration began in 1986, and the car returned to service at IRM in 1996."
Photo Date:  9/17/2006  Upload Date: 12/21/2009 7:25:37 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Bessemer #25
Title:  Bessemer #25
Description:  Combine built by Pressed Steel Car Company in 1925.
Photo Date:  5/30/2010  Upload Date: 5/31/2010 5:46:55 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  350   Comments: 0
Passenger cars in the yard
Title:  Passenger cars in the yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/31/2021 12:55:49 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Yard,Station,Passenger
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Views:  202   Comments: 0
Bessemer & Lake Erie Steel Combine car
Title:  Bessemer & Lake Erie Steel Combine car
Description:  Built in 1925
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/31/2021 12:56:10 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Passenger
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Views:  78   Comments: 0
Bessemer & Lake Erie Steel Combine car
Title:  Bessemer & Lake Erie Steel Combine car
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/4/2022 10:51:36 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Passenger
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Views:  96   Comments: 0
Bessemer & Lake Erie #25
Title:  Bessemer & Lake Erie #25
Description:  Sitting in Yard 3.
Photo Date:  7/22/2017  Upload Date: 7/24/2017 3:31:35 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  875   Comments: 0
Rock Island 4506 takes a turn with the Coach Train
Title:  Rock Island 4506 takes a turn with the Coach Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/2020  Upload Date: 9/2/2020 1:20:31 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  326   Comments: 0
Bessemer #25
Title:  Bessemer #25
Description:  The sides were recently wiped down with Penetrol to shine up the paint on this combine.
Photo Date:  5/19/2021  Upload Date: 5/29/2021 4:16:03 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  107   Comments: 0
Bessemer & Lake Erie #25
Title:  Bessemer & Lake Erie #25
Description:  Combine built by Pressed Steel Car Company in 1925. Part of the Percy Train for the "Day out with Thomas" Event.
Photo Date:  7/7/2021  Upload Date: 7/13/2021 1:36:18 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  103   Comments: 0
Departing Coach Train
Title:  Departing Coach Train
Description:  Shot from the kitchen window of the L&N Galt House diner.
Photo Date:  9/19/2021  Upload Date: 9/24/2021 3:51:29 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Locomotives:  SLSF 1630(2-10-0)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
Switching the Heavyweights
Title:  Switching the Heavyweights
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/27/2022  Upload Date: 6/4/2022 4:15:54 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Locomotives:  ITC 1605(GP7)
Views:  134   Comments: 0
Bessemer #25
Title:  Bessemer #25
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/27/2022  Upload Date: 6/4/2022 4:17:05 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  79   Comments: 0
BLE 25
Title:  BLE 25
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/15/2022 7:27:13 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Niko B
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Views:  134   Comments: 0
Bessemer & Lake Erie Baggage-Coach 25
Title:  Bessemer & Lake Erie Baggage-Coach 25
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/2022  Upload Date: 6/24/2022 10:41:53 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Wil Hata
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Views:  1001   Comments: 0
BLE 25
Title:  BLE 25
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/12/2022  Upload Date: 11/25/2022 9:13:53 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Zachary Walters
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  46   Comments: 1
Bessemer #25
Title:  Bessemer #25
Description:  In service during Showcase Weekend 2022.
Photo Date:  9/18/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:46:35 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  70   Comments: 0
Bessemer #25
Title:  Bessemer #25
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/24/2022  Upload Date: 9/27/2022 12:18:00 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  106   Comments: 0
Wedding Charter Light Test
Title:  Wedding Charter Light Test
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/15/2022  Upload Date: 10/22/2022 10:18:32 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  85   Comments: 0
Wedding Charter Light Test
Title:  Wedding Charter Light Test
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/15/2022  Upload Date: 10/22/2022 10:20:17 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
Wedding Charter Bar Service
Title:  Wedding Charter Bar Service
Description:  The baggage section of the combine was used for bar service durning the wedding charter.
Photo Date:  10/16/2022  Upload Date: 10/22/2022 10:23:00 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  82   Comments: 0
Weekend Coach Train
Title:  Weekend Coach Train
Description:  featuring Pullman Villa Real and the CB&Q RPO
Photo Date:  6/24/2023  Upload Date: 8/28/2023 11:07:58 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Locomotives:  SLSF 1630(2-10-0)
Views:  89   Comments: 0
The Weekend Coach Train
Title:  The Weekend Coach Train
Description:  During C&NW Weekend.
Photo Date:  5/18/2024  Upload Date: 8/5/2024 1:57:32 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  34   Comments: 0
Chicago & North Western #1689
Title:  Chicago & North Western #1689
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/18/2024  Upload Date: 8/5/2024 2:09:50 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Locomotives:  CNW 1689(RSD5)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
CAE 431
Title:  CAE 431
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/2024  Upload Date: 8/3/2024 1:09:16 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Transit,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  CAE 431(Interurban)
Views:  33   Comments: 0

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