The Illinois Railway Museum has completed construction of its fifteenth equipment storage barn. On February 27, the museum received its occupancy permit for the new building, allowing volunteers to quickly begin moving equipment into the four-track structure. The new Barn 15, completed ten years to the month after Barns 13 and 14, adds an additional 2,000 feet of indoor storage space for the museum, allowing the protection of dozens of locomotives and cars. 

IRM, located in Union, Ill., has one of the largest collections of historic railroad equipment in the United States and was founded in 1953.

—Justin Franz