Preservation
At least two SD24s survive in museums. Chicago Burlington & Quincy 504, formerly Burlington Northern 6244 (which can be seen in the movie Groundhog Day), has been restored at the Illinois Railway Museum. Wisconsin Central 2402, the former Fox River Valley 2402, formerly Burlington Northern 6255, originally Burlington 510 is at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI, mechanically complete except for traction motors.
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Famous quotes containing the word preservation:
“Is not our role to stand for the one thing which means our own salvation here but with which it will also be possible to save the world, and with which Europe will be able to save itself, namely the preservation of the white man and his state?”
—Hendrik Verwoerd (19011966)
“It is my hope to be able to prove that television is the greatest step forward we have yet made in the preservation of humanity. It will make of this Earth the paradise we have all envisioned, but have never seen.”
—Joseph ODonnell. Clifford Sanforth. Professor James Houghland, Murder by Television, just before he demonstrates his new television device (1935)
“If there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)