NOTABLECHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN The Galena and Chicago Union, soon to be known as the Chicago & North Western, was the first railroad chartered in the west. It was also the first to operate out of Chicago and became known as the FIRSTSThe C&NW became the “Pioneer” Railroad. first railroad to operate trains by telegraph on the line from Chicago to Freeport, Illinois in 1854. While operating1858 as the Galena in 1858, the line had the first contract with George Pullman for Pullman sleeping cars. 1854 1863 The Railroad was the first to introduce cupolas on In 1865 the C&NW built cabooses in 1863. the first railroad mail car in the United States and put it into service in 1867. 1865 The first dining car service between Chicago and San Francisco was operated as part of the Overland Route in the late 1800s. The first two Pullman Hotel cars were on 1877 the C&NW in 1877. SPONSORED BY: auto Thecontrol C&NW originated the Safety First Movement in 1910 — the first major railroad to institute a safety program. It was also the first Railroad to use D I V I S Automatic Train Control — a means to E I S O Trainfest logo I control speed through external input. America’s Largest Operating Model Railroad Show N W 1966 2016 5 WISE (Wisconsin Southeastern) Division of the NMRA logo y 0 r t a h s Anniver Milwaukee County Historical Society logo Chicago & North Western Historical Society logo Chicago & North Western Grohmann Museum of Art logo Historical Society Mercury Communication logo www.mercuryww.com TF-2015-PANEL-1.indd 1 11/6/15 4:00 PM TF-2015-PANEL-2.indd 1 11/6/15 4:01 PM THE BEGINNING THE NAMING OF THE PIONEER FIRST 1836 The Galena and Chicago Union RAILROADIn 1846 William Butler Ogden, (G&CU), the first railroad constructed the first mayor of Chicago, to run out of Chicago, was chartered LOCOMOTIVE became the third president of The Baldwin Locomotive Works January 16, 1836. The Railroad was the G&CU. By 1848 he and his began work on locomotive No. 37 partner J. Young Scammon intended to connect Chicago with the in 1836, and delivered it to the Utica raised $350,000 in capital lead mines at Galena, a much larger and Schenectady Railroad in New York in 1837. After being renamed through subscriptions, to allow Illinois town than Chicago at the time. 37 the Railroad to start laying track. the No. 7, the locomotive served for several years between Utica and 1846 Schenectady before the Railroad o decided it needed locomotives with greater pulling power. The Pioneer, the first N locomotive of the Road, arrived at Chicago from New Buffalo, Michigan on October o The No. 7 was then sold to the Central 10, 1848, nearly thirteen N 7 years after the charter was Railroad of Michigan (soon to be taken over by Michigan Central Railroad) and granted. On October 25, served as its first locomotive. 1848 the Pioneer pulled the The Michigan first westbound train out Central renamed the locomotive Alert , when the railroad of Chicago to the end of the and it ran until 1848 line in the present Chicago finally reached New Buffalo, Michigan. suburban town of Oak Park. The Alert was then sold to the Galena and Chicago Union where it became the Railroad’s first locomotive. 1848 AlertThe Alert was renamed the Pioneer and arrived in Chicago by ship on October 22, 1848. It took its first trip on October 24, 1848 to what is now Oak Park, Illinois. In 1850 the Pioneer was loaned to the Aurora Branch Railroad (later the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad) where it yet again was the first locomotive for a new railroad. Reenactment Staged for Centenniel Celebration in 1948. 1865The G&CU would begin operating under the Chicago and North 1850 Western (C&NW) banner in 1865. In 1850, the Galena and Chicago 1874 . In Turner, The Pioneer was retired in 1874 Union Railroad was completed as Illinois, a town created because it was and by 1853 it reached far as Elgin at the junction of three railroad lines, a Freeport, Illinois. However, the Illinois resident of this now West Chicago area, Central had already reached Galena appealed to the Railroad directors in 1880 so the line was redirected away from to preserve the Pioneer. It was restored Galena to take a more direct route in 1883 and went on exhibit for the first . to the Mississippi River time at the National Railway Appliance Exposition. Since then, the Pioneer has been Yesterday and Today, on exhibit at major expositions, used for tours, and featured at several museums. It is currently located at the Chicago 100 years of Progress, History Museum. 1848-1948 . is on Chicago Pioneer at the History Museum The permanent display Chicago History Museum, ICHi-66416 TF-2015-PANEL-3.indd 1 11/6/15 4:02 PM TF-2015-PANEL-4.indd 1 11/6/15 4:03 PM CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN EARLY CHARTERED William Butler Ogden (1805-1877) was A telegraph line was run out to DECADESborn in Walton, New York and went to and the Freeport, Illinois G&CU Chicago in 1835 to supervise a real estate began to operate trains by deal for his brother-in-law. The profit from telegraph in 1855 — the first the sale convinced Ogden to settle in in the nation to do so. Chicago permanently in 1836. There he became a real estate developer and the The new line ran from Turner City of Chicago’s (1837-1838) first mayor Junction (West Chicago) to working on improving streets, sidewalks, Fulton, Illinois on the Mississippi and bridges. River and became the basis for the C&NW’s core route to the west. The G&CU laid a second track Ogden became president of the out of Chicago and started left- Galena and Chicago Union railroad in handed operation in order to avoid 1846. When eastern investors showed moving the depots to the other no interest in the venture, Ogden and side of the tracks. 1855 his partner J. Young Scammon raised In 1858, the G&CU operated the $350,000 in subscriptions from local first sleeping car west of Chicago farmers and small business owners. on the line to Freeport. 1846 The G&CU In 1862 the G&CU leased the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad Ogden left the Galena and Chicago expands across line in Iowa. It would eventually Union in 1851, but went on to be the first become a mainline portion of the president of the Chicago & North Western 1858 transcontinental railroad for the railroad (1859 – 1868) and thereby the first Iowa to reach the Chicago & North Western. president of the Union Pacific railroad. Missouri River The C&NW built the first railroad mail car in the United States in 1865 and put it into service in 1867. 1851 He designed the first 1867 swing bridge over the In 1850, the Galena and Chicago Chicago River and by the Union was contracted by the donated the land for 1869 United States Post Office to Rush Medical Center. carry “pouched mail” and small Railway Mail packages. While trains had was been carrying mail in the East Service for several years, delivery in the in full swing “West” was unchartered territory. In fact the Iowa Division of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, from Chicago to Clinton, Before becoming involved with railroads, Iowa, became the first “West” Ogden was a leading promoter and railway postal route in operation investor in the Illinois and Michigan Canal. on August 28, 1864. The earliest When Ogden consolidated the Galena & Union and C&NW in 1864, MILES complete railway post office cars the system was at a whopping 1405 miles. were built for the C&NW in 1865, put into service in 1867, and by 1405 1869 the Railway Mail Service with virtually all Mail car awaits sorting of mail. was in full swing mail being carried by railroads. Ogden resigned the presidency and left the board of directors in 1868 to retire to his estate in Bronx, New York. He passed away there on August 3, 1877. CHICAGO’S FIRST MAYOR CHICAGO’S FIRST MAYOR TF-2015-PANEL-5.indd 1 11/6/15 4:05 PM TF-2015-PANEL-6.indd 1 11/6/15 4:11 PM ACQUISITIONS LEFT-HAND AND THE GREAT RUNNINGThe C&NW was known for running “left-hand main” on double track mainlines. In other words, traffic was routed by default to the track on the left rather than the track on the right. In the United States, most railroads CHICAGO followed the “right-hand main” operating practice, while “left-hand main” running was more common in The C&NW became one of the countries where British companies built longest railroads in the United States the railroads. as a result of mergers and acquisitions. FIRE In 1864 it acquired the Peninsula Railroad in Upper Michigan, though it disconnected the line and operated a shipping business in the area instead. 1864 The Chicago & Milwaukee was acquired by lease in 1866, which gave the C&NW a route from Chicago to Milwaukee. The next of chance and inertia. Running left-hand was a combination year, 1867, the Winona and St. Peter Railroad was added. WHY LEFT-HAND RUNNING? The reason for the C&NW running 1866 left-hand was a combination of chance and inertia. When originally built as single-line trackage, the C&NW arbitrarily placed its stations on the left-hand side of the tracks (when In the last major acquisition of this headed inbound toward Chicago).