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"In 1864, the Chicago & North Western absorbed the Galena & Chicago Union, which in 1848 had been the city's first railroad. Between 1872 and 1910, under the leadership of Marvin Hughitt, the length of track in the road's rail network grew from about 1,400 miles to nearly 10,000 miles." [EncyclopediaChicago]
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| ModelTrainStuff "Like many railroads, the early years of the CNW were marked by acquisitions, primarily of railroads struggling in the face of significant competition. "The CNW itself emerged from the ashes of another failed railroad: the Chicago, St. Paul, and Fond du Lac, which was established in 1855. The CNW was chartered on June 7th, 1859, having purchased the assets of the failed railroad just five days earlier. "The CNW’s first major merger was with the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad in February 1865. The G&CU was a much older operation – predating the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac by almost 20 years. Chartered in 1836, the company was the first railroad to have a presence in Chicago, where it commenced service in 1848. By the time the CNW showed interest, the railroad had failed to actually make it to its namesake of Galena, but was nonetheless operating regular services between Chicago and Freeport, Illinois. Due to its predating of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac, the Galena and Chicago Union is often considered the true predecessor of the CNW." |
"In 1930, the 10,195-mile C&NW system was one of only seven U.S. systems over 10,000 miles. The others were Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, New York Central, Burlington Route, Pennsylvania, and Milwaukee Road. C&NW’s acquisition of Minneapolis & St. Louis and Chicago Great Western boosted system mileage to 11,401 by 1968. Abandonment of redundant lines whittled the C&NW to 4991 miles when it merged with UP in 1995." [Train]
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| Pierre Leonard posted 1923 Scott Schiller: The black line are the Chicago Minneapolis/St. Paul and Omaha RR lines. Dan Rupnow: Did CNW have more Wisconsin mileage than The Milwaukee? I know Wisconsin had the most CNW mileage of any of the 7 states the CNW ran in. David Gaunky: Dan Rupnow the Milwaukee had more mileage, but not by much. Andrew Hager: The 1920s were the high water mark for railroads in Wisconsin. Today, very little of what was C&NW and predecessor railroads are still left in Wisconsin. Majority of existing railroads in Wisconsin left today were either Soo Line or Milwaukee Road routes. |
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| James Dirks posted C&NW map of diesel & steam power 1953. |
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| By Original uploader was Elkman at en.wikipedia - This PNG graphic was created with QGIS., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6103946 "Map of the en:Chicago and North Western Railway. Black lines are trackage now owned by en:Union Pacific; green lines were owned by the en:Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad; blue lines are owned by other railroads; dotted lines are abandoned. Created with Quantum GIS with data from the National Transportation Atlas Database." |
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| Jon Roma commented on a post Here's a little context in the form of a map of C&NW's Chicago Terminal Division dated 1959. This shows the potion of the line south of Skokie. |
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| Jon Roma commented on a post And here's a 1959 map of the C&NW Wisconsin Division, showing the line north of Skokie. Paul Musselman Note where it says 'Bryn Mawr' just below 'Deval'.....that was not the 'Bryn Mawr' street that was a stop on the CTA, it was a junction point on the west side of O'Hare Airport, just N of Irving Park Rd. and alongside York Rd.......... |
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