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Metra has donated F40C No. 614, one of just two such surviving locomotives, to the Illinois Railway Museum. IRM says in a press release that it hopes to restore the locomotive to operating condition.

Of the three main types, the grand total of geared steam locomotives built in the U.S. topped out at around 4,500. Despite ...