SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2021 3:00pm to 8:00pm
At the Normandy Banquets located at the American Legion Hall
310 W Butterfield Road, Elmhurst, Illinois
**NEW LOCATION**
3:30PM A special presentation by your Archive Committee of material found in your archives followed
by an update on the progress of the Archives Building at the Illinois Railway Museum
6:30PM Mark Llanuza will be presenting a multi-media extravaganza about the C&NW
See the form for more information and to register.
Volume 12 number 4 of North Western Lines Modeler is here.
Highlights include the second article on the Flambeau 400 false bi-levels, and a truly massive 1:29 scale model of the De Kalb coaling tower.
The current issue of North Western Lines is now being mailed to members. Another great issue that includes:
Mike Lenzen’s St. James, A Railroad History
Part 3; Jim Lewnard’s research on C&NW Café-Coach 7000
A North Woods Station Agent’s Life story by Craig Pfannkuche & Michelle Giuliano
C&NW Stories by Doug De Berg; North Western News; What do You Know?
Our annual Thank You listing our 2020 Contributing and “400 Club” members
And 75 Years Ago – North Western Newsliner. The three corresponding issues are available now for viewing.
If you are not a member, you will want to join the Chicago & North Western Historical Society to make sure you don’t miss out on the great stories and research about the world’s greatest granger railroad and associated roads! To join on-line, go to our website at www.cnwhs.org and click on the membership button. Sign up today!
The Chicago & North Western Historical Society’s annual convention has now been rescheduled for May 19-22, 2022, after twice being postponed because of Covid-19 restrictions. See the Conventions Page for more information.
With great pride the C&NWHS would like to announce that the agreement to locate our permanent archives building at Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) has been completed and signed!
This project has been years in the making and is the first step in completing the new home of the C&NWHS Archives that will provide a great future for the educational activities and preservation of the C&NW and associated roads.
Construction of the building is the next step and while we don’t have a timeframe for that yet, we will provide updates as activities get underway.
Thank you for your continued support of the largest project the society has undertaken!
Volume 12 No. 3 of North Western Lines Modeler is available!
This quarter’s issue contains articles on early C&NW piggybacks, the Flambeau false bi-levels, a photo gallery, and more.
With the release of issue 2020:4 of North Western Lines, the first installment of 75 Years Ago – North Western Newsliner, has been added online, starting with the November and December 1945 issues of the employee magazine. As upcoming issues of North Western Lines are published, the corresponding employee magazines from 75 years prior will be available for view on our website.
Our virtual swap meet has begun with various items on sale and the offering of many HO models thanks to a donation by Richard Lenzer. See our Sales Page for more details!
We have added some surplus timetables and track charts to the CNWHS Store. The timetables are a mix of Employee, Passenger, System, & Suburban from various years. The track charts are all from April 3, 1995 and the final printing the by the CNW. All are originals, unless noted, some of the timetable covers have marks or stains. If you are looking to add to your collection, maybe we have something you are looking for!
If you purchase $35 worth of timetables, you’ll get $5 off. Purchase $100, get $10 off.
https://cnwhs.org/wp1/product-category/archives-documents/documents-for-sale/
Additionally we have added a few models that had been going to train shows.
https://cnwhs.org/wp1/product-category/models/
Volume 12 No. 2 of North Western Lines Modeler is available!
Our October issue includes notes on CGW diesel colors by the late Don Vaughn, Dave Casey’s upgrade of a Rivarossi streamlined coach, the first installment of “Modeling from the Archives” where we look at the 1974 Train Operations Manual, and more.
