Category: Other Books

An all-color 48 page book looking at the C&NW from the mid 60’s to the UP merger. Includes 80 color photos showcasing a wide range…

By James Kinkaid. Covers passenger cars, cabooses, and acquired roads.

By James Kinkaid. The cars that made the money! Box cars, gondolas, coil cars, covered hoppers, flat cars, hoppers, ore jennies, reefer and stock cars.…

For 14 years, a small fleet of Chicago & North Western E8 series of passenger locomotives served on the Chicago area commuter rail system now…

Authored by James Lewnard With the assistance of several well-known railroad photographers, the second volume of the Chicago & North Western Peninsula Division book focuses…

Chicago & North Western Power 1963-1995 In Color Vol. 1: General Motors Switchers & First Generation Roadswitchers. Chicago & North Western 1963-1995 Power in Color…

This continued coverage of Chicago & North Western’s motive power fleet examines switchers and first-generation roadswitchers built by Alco, Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse, General Electric, and Whitcomb,…

An in-depth look at the C&NW’s E- and F-unit fleet after 1963 – a time when the road was absorbing the cab units from roads…

By Stephen M. Timko The North Western’s modern day roster is wrapped up in this final volume with coverage of second generation roadswitchers and later…

Pat Dorin has compiled another nice C&NW book, this one dealing with a general overview of the line’s freight trains and cars over the years,…

Chicago and North Western In Color Volume 1: 1941-1953 Authored by Lloyd Keyser Enjoy the most fascinating collection of vintage C&NW steam and early diesel…

Chicago and North Western In Color Volume 3: 1959-1964 Co-authored by Lloyd Keyser and Phil Borleske The C&NW undergoes a radical transformation with new management,…

This is the fourth volume of the series co-authored by Lloyd Keyser and Phil Borleske. This volume covers the period from 1956 to the merger…

Chicago & North Western Official Color Photography Authored by Gene Green. C&NW official photographers recorded everything from new diesels, new equipment, special events and other…

By Dean Freimund From 1988 to 1993, the Fox River Valley Railroad operated the former C&NW Valley Sub between Milwaukee and Green Bay WI. The…

M&StL in Color Authored by Gene Green. This spirited little Midwest hauler was one of the earliest “fallen flags” disappearing into the C&NW System in…