You guys would puke if you knew the many attempts UP made to to give significant locomotives to museums. Among them:

The first GP30 (actually, it was built as a GP22).
One of the first SD24's.
A DD35A
A U50.
One of the SD40X protoypes.

Not one museum could be persuaded to take any of these. Of course, decades after all (except the SD40X) had long been cut up, several of those same museums began asking for one or more of these things. In retrospect, it may be a good thing some of these didn't get saved. One of those museums went belly up and scrapped most of their collection. It's fair to assume that any of these locos that would have been in their collection would have been torched, too.

The SD40X was sold to a dealer, rebuilt and entered a lease fleet.

Then, look at how E8A 928 was treated after it was donated to a museum, in fresh paint no less.
It was neglected completely, to the point the museum was going to have it scrapped (along with a number of cars in their collection that they had similarly ignored). Only it's purchase by a private individual saved it from the razor blade factory.