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Predecessors of the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company: Chicago Great Western Railway, Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway by Books LLC (Paperback / softback, 2010)

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Chapters: Chicago Great Western Railway, Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, Galena and Southern Wisconsin Railroad, Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, Litchfield and Madison Railway, Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, Kesha and Rockford Railroad, Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad, Chicago and Milwaukee Railway, Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, Covington, Columbus and Black Hills Railroad, Chicago and North Western Railway, West Wisconsin Railway, Albany Railroad Bridge Company, Chicago, St. Charles and Mississippi Air Line Railroad, Green Bay, Milwaukee and Chicago Railroad, Illiis Parallel Railroad, Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 76. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Chicago Great Western Railway (reporting mark CGW) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. It was founded by Alpheus Beede Stickney in 1885 as a regional line between St. Paul and the Iowa state line called the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad. Through mergers and new construction, the railroad, named Chicago Great Western after 1892, quickly became a multi-state carrier. One of the last Class I railroads to be built, it competed against several other more well-established railroads in the same territory, and developed a corporate culture of invation and efficiency to survive. Nicknamed the Corn Belt Route because of its operating area in the midwestern United States, the railroad was sometimes called the Lucky Strike Road, due to the similarity in design between the herald of the CGW and the logo used for Lucky Strike cigarettes. It was merged with the Chicago and North Western Railway (CNW) in 1968, which abandoned most of the CGW'...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=588179

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01/12/2016
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15/09/2010
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