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    The Chicago Great Western Railway (reporting mark CGW) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. It was founded...
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    mergers with other railroads, such as the Chicago Great Western Railway, Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway and others. By 1995, track sales and abandonment...
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  • Great Western Railway was a British railway company operating from 1833 to 1947. Great Western Railway or Great Western Railroad may also refer to the...
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  • originally of Canada West Great Western Railway (Saskatchewan), a short line railway in Canada Chicago Great Western Railway, US Great Western Railroad (Illinois)...
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    plants. Grand Trunk Western grew out of a collection of 19th century Michigan rail lines which included: Bay City Terminal Railway Chicago, Detroit and Canada...
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    Register of Historic Places. The depot was built in 1906 after the Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) acquired two small railroads: the Minnesota Central, which...
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    including, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (Burlington) Chicago and North Western Railway (Omaha Road) Chicago Great Western Railway Great Northern...
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    non-contiguous sections of an abandoned Chicago Great Western Railway corridor in suburban Chicago and a section in Iowa that have been converted into biking...
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    The Great Northern Railway (reporting mark GN) was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the...
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    Railroad, successor to the Wisconsin Central, the Chicago Great Western Railway, and the Pere Marquette Railway. The station opened December 8, 1890, closed...
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  • formed a new railway company, called the Chicago and Great Western Railroad (C&GW, not to be confused with the Chicago Great Western Railway) to build a...
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    Kansas City Union Station (category Former Chicago Great Western Railway stations)
    Santa Fe; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; Chicago Great Western; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific; Kansas City Southern;...
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    The Chicago Great Western Railroad-Waterloo Freight Depot is a historic building located in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. In 1887 the Chicago, St. Paul...
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    transport goods between New York and Cuba. In the mid-1930s, the Chicago Great Western Railway and then the New Haven Railroad began "piggyback" service (transporting...
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  • EGWP is located between two abandoned railway beds, the Chicago Great Western Railway on the north and the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad to the south...
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  • Chicago and North Western Railway (CNW), which at the time was the successor of the first railroad to operate out of Chicago, the Galena and Chicago Union...
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    Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway Chicago Great Western Railway...
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  • Cloquet Terminal Railroad (CTRR) Minnesota Commercial Railway (MNNR) Minnesota, Dakota and Western Railway (MDW) Minnesota Northern Railroad (MNN) Minnesota...
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    Saint Paul Union Depot (category Former Chicago Great Western Railway stations)
    The Minneapolis Great Northern Depot in Minneapolis was used by trains of the Chicago and North Western Railway, Great Northern Railway, and Northern Pacific...
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    consolidation of the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway and the North Wisconsin Railway. The Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW) gained control...
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    EMD FP7 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1949)
    excursion train. Chicago Great Western Railway 116-A, on display, at Hub City Heritage Railroad Museum, Oelwein, Iowa. Canadian Pacific Railway 4038, at Minnedosa...
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  • National Railway (CN) through subsidiaries Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (CC), Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (EJE), Grand Trunk Western Railroad...
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    decline from 194 in 2000. Aurora was founded in 1886 by the Chicago Great Western Railway, and incorporated in 1899. The town was laid out on land donated...
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  • Nebraska. BNSF Railway (BNSF) Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (CC) Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) through...
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  • feet (760 m) long, abandoned and partially collapsed former Chicago Great Western Railway tunnel, 9 miles west of Elizabeth in Jo Daviess County East...
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    Joseph Railway Kansas City Interurban Railway Kansas City, Kaw Valley Railroad Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway (KV&W, KVW) Kansas City Public Service...
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  • Railway and Light Company Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway Centerville Light and Traction Company Charles City Western Railway Citizens' Railway and...
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    Detroit, without going through St. Louis or Chicago. Despite being merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) in 1964, the Wabash company continued...
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    and was without a direct connection to Chicago until the 1880s with the coming of the Chicago Great Western Railway.[citation needed] Streetcar lines along...
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    2000. The village is located on the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad, on the old Chicago Great Western Railway before it merged and was pulled up. Also...
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