The Chicago Great Western Railway located its train repair hub in Oelwein when it built a roundhouse and shops there in the 1890s to build and repair steam locomotives.

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 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 ...

There was a time when it was just one of several great train stations in or near Chicago`s Loop. ... was built in 1885 at Dearborn and Polk Streets by the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad.

The society also preserves the history of the Chicago Great Western, a railroad taken over by the C&NW in 1968, and the Minneapolis & St. Louis, which was acquired by the C&NW in 1960.

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 ...