Chicago & North Western passenger trains: All through December 2023, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of the C&NW.
![Chesapeake and Ohio](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505011-1.jpg)
E-4 Hudson 4001 with Chicago–Oakland Forty-Niner departing Chicago, circa 1938.
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![Chesapeake and Ohio](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505011-1-100x80.jpg)
![a yellow passenger car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505012-1.jpg)
Chicago–Minneapolis 400 at Main Street, Evanston, Ill., April 1962.
Ed DeRouin
![a yellow passenger car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505012-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger train leaving a train station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505013-1.jpg)
Minneapolis–Omaha North American departing Minneapolis, August 1950.
Bob Borcherding
![a passenger train leaving a train station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505013-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine passenger train sitting next to a train station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505014-1.jpg)
R-1 Ten-Wheeler 1402 with Fond du Lac–Janesville (Wis.) train 28 crossing Milwaukee Road at Watertown, Wis., 1948.
Bob Lewis
![a steam engine passenger train sitting next to a train station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505014-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine passenger train passing a train watchtower](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505015-1.jpg)
Pacific 590 with outbound Northwest Line suburban train crossing Milwaukee Road at Mayfair Tower, Chicago, 1952.
Wallace W. Abbey
![a steam engine passenger train passing a train watchtower](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505015-1-100x80.jpg)
![a train yard with 7 passenger trains side by side](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505081-1.jpg)
In the late 1940s, as the Portland–Chicago City of Portland passes on the main line, four other streamliners occupy the four closest tracks in 40th Street Yard (from left): City of Denver, Twin Cities 400, City of Los Angeles, and City of San Francisco.
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![a train yard with 7 passenger trains side by side](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505081-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505082-1.jpg)
E8 5024A with Milwaukee–Chicago train 160, Streamliner 400, at Racine, Wis., mid-1950s.
Russ Porter
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505082-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger train in a ravine](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505083-1.jpg)
Rapid City (S.Dak.)–Chicago Dakota 400 at Tunnel City, Wis., Sept. 19, 1957.
Jim Scribbins
![a passenger train in a ravine](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505083-1-100x80.jpg)
![passenger trains at a terminal](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505084-1.jpg)
Six afternoon suburban trains — one outbound (far right) and five waiting to back into North Western Terminal — at Clinton Street Tower, June 1953.
Wallace W. Abbey
![passenger trains at a terminal](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505084-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505085-1.jpg)
E8 5025 and an E3 or E6 with Twin Cities 400 at Minneapolis about to depart for Chicago, July 1953.
James G. LaVake
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505085-1-100x80.jpg)
![passenger trains sitting in a terminal](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505151-1.jpg)
From left: City of Los Angeles, City of Denver, and Twin Cities 400 at 40th Street coach yard, Chicago, 1941.
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![passenger trains sitting in a terminal](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505151-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger train passes another passenger train with Chicago buildings in the background](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505152-1.jpg)
F7 4085A with new bi-level cars passes old heavyweight equipment just outside North Western Terminal, Chicago, in 1960.
J. Parker Lamb
![a passenger train passes another passenger train with Chicago buildings in the background](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505152-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505153-1.jpg)
Pacific 1634 with Madison–Chicago train 508.
Frank Rogers
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505153-1-100x80.jpg)
![a yellow diesel](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505154-1.jpg)
New E3 diesels on Chicago–Minneapolis 400 at Chicago, 1939.
John Proebsting coll.
![a yellow diesel](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505154-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars on a winter day](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505155-1.jpg)
Atlantic 1316 with inbound suburban train at Glen Ellyn, Ill., February 1944.
Robert Nicholls
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars on a winter day](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505155-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505221-1.jpg)
Minneapolis–Chicago overnight North Western Limited arriving Chicago, July 1952.
S. K. Bolton Jr.
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505221-1-100x80.jpg)
![an old commuter train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505222-1.jpg)
C&NW was the first road to embrace push-pull technology for commuter trains, beginning in 1959.
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![an old commuter train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505222-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505223-1.jpg)
E6 5005B and E3 5002B with Minneapolis–Chicago 400 approaching station in Milwaukee, October 1954.
Jim Scribbins
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505223-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505224-1.jpg)
Pacific 578 with inbound suburban train at Mayfair Tower, Chicago, July 1955.
Bob Bruneau
![a steam engine passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505224-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505225-1.jpg)
E3 diesels with Chicago–Minneapolis 400 outside North Western Terminal, Chicago, 1939.
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![a passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1505225-1-100x80.jpg)
Please enjoy this photo gallery of Chicago & North Western passenger trains, originally published online in May 2015.
“Streamliner 400
E8 5024A with Milwaukee–Chicago train 160, Streamliner 400, at Racine, Wis., mid-1950s.”
Photo shows a set of 3 RDC’s!