We had breakfast at our hotel (not a very good one) and drove toward Chicago. We spent several hours at the Illinois Railroad Museum in Union, IL. We then drove to a Tesla Service Center in Chicago and were given a
quick answer to a question that we had been working on for the last three
days, i.e., "How do you unlock the car from the iPhone app?" To our mild embarassment, you click on the icon that looks like a padlock. The very first icon on the opening page of the app. We finally ended up at our hotel in Skokie.
The Illinois Railroad Museum is the largest railroad museum in the US. We spent several hours there and saw a small fraction of the place. Part of the time, Dick was resting his back and sent Bruce to see things on his own. The map shows the portion available to the public. The full facility is several times that size. There is also is a picture of signaling devices beside one of the many buildings. You can see how huge the buildings are.
Checking out behemoths. The first picture is of a gas turbine engine. The next three are steam engines. The last one had amazingly big drive wheels.
Behind the dining car is the museum restaurant. We had a so-so lunch there.
In one of the many museum buildings was a collection of hand tools that were used to keep the railroad running in the late 1800s.
Bruce ran across a business car built for the Nevada Northern Railroad (which folks who follow our adventures will recognize as a place we visited on a previous Tesla adventure). He had to take pictures of the interior through the windows so there are some odd reflections.
This was "Diesel Weekend" at the museum. One of the things that people could do is ride in the cab of various engines. Bruce and I did that in Nevada on our first adventure so we skipped that part. Here is a picture of one of the engines.
Finally, at the end of the day, we had put in 305 miles, a lot less than the five to six hundred of the previous few days.
