A REPATRIATION.

Railway preservation is a challenging enterprise, with the notion of "playing with trains" in full scale in bad odor: anyone who works on other large mobile machines probably has to deal with that.  The culture-vultures who are happy to contribute to other sorts of museums might not want to hold wine and cheese receptions to raise money for railway museums (although this time of year, those of that set who have kids might find a Santa Claus train to ride) or support the use of the national endowments in those purposes.  In addition, you can't get replacement parts at Home Depot, and, like any other organization of people, from time to time personalities clash.

Thus, a one-time thriving museum in Noblesville, Indiana, liquidates.

One of the cars in the collection, North Shore coach 172, is now at the Illinois Railway Museum, where, after a full restoration, it will make possible a three-car train (150, 172, 714) of the older stock that protected the commuter services in later years.