CLASSIC CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN - VOL 1: THE ALCO LINE Baltimore and operations

and operations

Witness lots of BNSF action in "red dirt" country

Louis in the 1950s: A&S

Metra train in Chicago and more

features the early years of the Alco diesel

CLASSIC CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN - VOL 1: THE ALCO LINE Baltimore and operationsDuring the remarkable 147 year history of the Chicago and North Western Railroad Company from 1848 to 1995, the railroad fielded a variety of main line and branch line service throughout the Midwest and High Plains region, not to mention many locomotive types. A secondary C&NW main line from Chicago ran northwest through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota to Pierre, Dakota Territory in 1880. This route was finally completed across South Dakota to