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Pioneer Railroad Chicago & North Western System By Casey & Douglas Hard Cover
Pioneer Railroad Chicago & North Western System By Casey & Douglas 334 Pages
Hard Cover Stamp and writing inside front cover, date stamped on first blank page
Copyright 1948
Contents
Part One. MAN OF VISION
CHAPTER
1. The Gentleman from Delaware County ..3
2. Charles Butler's Proposal ...11
3. Go West, Young Man ...18
4. His Honor the Mayor ...27
5. Galena-Prairie Capital...38
Part Two. PIONEER RAILROAD
6. The Birth of a Railroad..47
7. The Pioneer ...57
8. North Western Dream ...68
9. Laying the Foundation...77
Part Three. NORTHWEST TERRITORY
10. Territory in Need of a Railroad ...85
11. Twin Cities in the Wilderness..95
12. The Rails Come to Minnesota.. 100
Part Four. THE WAR YEARS
13. Civil War...113
14. Consolidation ....121
15. Ogden Retires..129
16. Marvin Hughitt..135
17. Rural Opposition ...140
Part Five. THE LAST FRONTIER
18. The Omaha Climbs Aboard .. 149
19. Empty Horizons ..155
The story of the Chicago and North Western Railway is one of the most dramatic in American railroad history. From its first little wood-burning locomotive, the "Pioneer," to the streamlined Diesel-powered trains of today, the MO-year history of the C. & N. W. has reflected the spirit of American pioneering. The pioneer railroad was the dream of one man who visualized a network of railroad lines bringing civilization to the wilderness. The old left-handed railway had to overcome floods and blizzards, hazards of forest and plains, but it became one of the most powerful influences in the development of the Northwest from Chicago to the Black Hills and Lake Superior.
William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago, was the founder of the North Western. It was his guiding spirit that made the railroad a reality. Coming into northern Illinois with the first flow of settlers, he saw the need for a railroad that would link Chicago with the rich agricultural lands of the Rock River Valley. Ogden rode around the country on horseback selling the railroad to the farmers and to the people of the small communities that were cropping up over a far-flung territory. A single-track line was built toward Galena, and then the railroad began to push out into the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the farming country of Iowa, the plains of Nebraska and the Dakotas. Later, other great railroad men took over the management of the system - Marvin Hughitt guided its construction and expansion program during the eighties and the nineties; Rowland L. Williams was responsible for taking the Chicago and North Western through reorganization and improvement of its present-day facilities and services.
The Chicago and North Western has demonstrated that superspeed trains are not only feasible but profitable. It was the first railroad to operate a railway post office, the first to run sleeping cars west of Chicago, the first to carry dining cars between Chicago and San Francisco, the first in the \Vest to operate by telegraph. A century ago it pioneered in a wilderness; it is still pioneering today in the development of safer, more efficient service over its vast network of lines. The absorbing history of the Chicago and North Western will thrill any railroad fan, all those interested in the growth of a great American railroad.
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