On Oct. 25, 1848, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad dispatched a train from a station on Kinzie Street just north of the Chicago River. It was the first railroad in a city that in future decade… ...

“That was maybe 40 years ago.” The Chicago Great Western Railroad disappeared after a 1968 merger and is now the Great Western nature trail.

Railroad buffs are rolling into town this week for Chicago & North Western Historical Society’s first convention in Mankato.

The Chicago Great Western Railway depot, built-in 1899, was moved from its temporary site next to the Rochester Public Utilities power plant to its original location along the Zumbro River at ...

(Crain's) — The lawyer-turned-executive, a seminal figure in Chicago business after World War II — and one who knew how to run a railroad — died Sunday.

There will be fewer men "wearing the seats of their pants shiny" on Chicago Great Western Railroad after Jan. 15, according to energetic, hard-fisted President Patrick H. Joyce (TIME, Nov.

The eastern leg of the Great Western Trail runs from West Chicago to Villa Park, within the right of way of the former Chicago and Great Western Railroad.

Bad luck moved fast and deviously one foggy night this week on the Chicago Great Western Railroad. On a siding at Tennant, on the Iowa plains, a freight engine crew scrambled from the cab when a ...