Chicago & North Western passenger trains remembered

E-4 Hudson 4001 with Chicago–Oakland Forty-Niner departing Chicago, circa 1938.
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Chicago–Minneapolis 400 at Main Street, Evanston, Ill., April 1962.
Ed DeRouin

Minneapolis–Omaha North American departing Minneapolis, August 1950.
Bob Borcherding

R-1 Ten-Wheeler 1402 with Fond du Lac–Janesville (Wis.) train 28 crossing Milwaukee Road at Watertown, Wis., 1948.
Bob Lewis

Pacific 590 with outbound Northwest Line suburban train crossing Milwaukee Road at Mayfair Tower, Chicago, 1952.
Wallace W. Abbey

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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E8 5024A with Milwaukee–Chicago train 160, Streamliner 400, at Racine, Wis., mid-1950s.
Russ Porter

Rapid City (S.Dak.)–Chicago Dakota 400 at Tunnel City, Wis., Sept. 19, 1957.
Jim Scribbins

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

E8 5025 and an E3 or E6 with Twin Cities 400 at Minneapolis about to depart for Chicago, July 1953.
James G. LaVake

F7 4085A with new bi-level cars passes old heavyweight equipment just outside North Western Terminal, Chicago, in 1960.
J. Parker Lamb

Pacific 1634 with Madison–Chicago train 508.
Frank Rogers

New E3 diesels on Chicago–Minneapolis 400 at Chicago, 1939.
John Proebsting coll.

Atlantic 1316 with inbound suburban train at Glen Ellyn, Ill., February 1944.
Robert Nicholls

Minneapolis–Chicago overnight North Western Limited arriving Chicago, July 1952.
S. K. Bolton Jr.

C&NW was the first road to embrace push-pull technology for commuter trains, beginning in 1959.
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E6 5005B and E3 5002B with Minneapolis–Chicago 400 approaching station in Milwaukee, October 1954.
Jim Scribbins

Pacific 578 with inbound suburban train at Mayfair Tower, Chicago, July 1955.
Bob Bruneau

E3 diesels with Chicago–Minneapolis 400 outside North Western Terminal, Chicago, 1939.
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