Using steam locomotives and heavyweight cars, the Chicago & Northwestern introduced the 400 in 1935 to compete with the Burlington Twin Zephyrs on the Chicago-Twin Cities route. In 1939, it re-equipped the train with Diesels and streamlined cars. Click image … Continue reading
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This menu cover was designed especially for breakfast and promises milk from cows, eggs from chickens, bacon from pigs, and maybe there’s a wheat or corn field somewhere to provide cereal. Of course, there’s a C&NW 400 train in the … Continue reading
The Chicago & North Western served Mount Rushmore with trains from Chicago to Rapid City, South Dakota. The trains terminated at Mount Rushmore, so people would have to make a special trip as opposed to stopping off on their way … Continue reading
Everyone loves to wave at trains as they go by, perhaps to remind ourselves of our mutual humanity while wishing that we ourselves were on the train going somewhere. Of course, some of the people on this train might wish … Continue reading
In late 1906, the Chicago & North Western completed its line to Lander, Wyoming, which may have been part of an effort for the railway to reach the Pacific. In late 1907, Union Pacific built a line to what is … Continue reading
A few days ago we had some menus from the 1950 Sam Campbell Western Wonderlands tour. This menu is from the 1949 tour, which was the second such tour offered. Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading
This booklet says that California can be “reached quickly and with all the comforts of travel by the Chicago, Union Pacific & North Western Line,” which was the name of the tour company owned by the two railroads. The booklet … Continue reading
Although this appears to be a children’s book, it contains enough tourist information to make it clear that it also served as advertising. Moreover, each coloring page is accompanied by a full-color photo of the same scene, which isn’t usual … Continue reading
C&NW’s 1962 timetable showed the 400 leaving Chicago and Minneapolis at about 11 am and arriving at their opposite termini at about 7 pm, so there was time to serve both lunch and dinner in the diner. This 1964 dinner … Continue reading
Dated 1960, half of this menu offers a variety of alcoholic beverages and the other half has a much shorter selection of dinners. The menu doesn’t say so, but it obviously was used in the train’s cafe car rather than … Continue reading