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Chicago & North Western - Image Gallery

Chicago & North Western passenger trains: All through December 2023, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of the C&NW.

Chesapeake and OhioForty-Niner

E-4 Hudson 4001 with Chicago–Oakland Forty-Niner departing Chicago, circa 1938.
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Chesapeake and Ohioa yellow passenger car400

Chicago–Minneapolis 400 at Main Street, Evanston, Ill., April 1962.
Ed DeRouin

a yellow passenger cara passenger train leaving a train stationNorth American

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

a passenger train leaving a train stationa steam engine passenger train sitting next to a train stationLocal train 28

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 stationa steam engine passenger train passing a train watchtowerChicago suburban train

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 watchtowera train yard with 7 passenger trains side by sideChicago coach yard

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.
C&NW

a train yard with 7 passenger trains side by sidea passenger train Streamliner 400

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

a passenger train a passenger train in a ravineDakota 400

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

a passenger train in a ravinepassenger trains at a terminalSuburban trains

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 terminala passenger trainTwin Cities 400

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 trainpassenger trains sitting in a terminalStreamliner observation cars

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 terminala passenger train passes another passenger train with Chicago buildings in the backgroundNew and old suburban equipment

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 backgrounda steam engine pulling passenger carsMadison–Chicago local

Pacific 1634 with Madison–Chicago train 508.
Frank Rogers

a steam engine pulling passenger carsa yellow dieselTwin Cities 400

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

a yellow diesela steam engine pulling passenger cars on a winter dayChicago suburban train

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

a steam engine pulling passenger cars on a winter daya passenger trainNorth Western Limited

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

a passenger trainan old commuter trainChicago push-pull suburban train

C&NW was the first road to embrace push-pull technology for commuter trains, beginning in 1959.
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an old commuter traina passenger trainTwin Cities 400

E6 5005B and E3 5002B with Minneapolis–Chicago 400 approaching station in Milwaukee, October 1954.
Jim Scribbins

a passenger traina steam engine passenger trainChicago suburban train

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

a steam engine passenger traina passenger trainTwin Cities 400

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

Please enjoy this photo gallery of Chicago & North Western passenger trains, originally published online in May 2015.

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