the most famous railroad in Wisconsin, yes even more famous than the Wisconsin Central, is and has been a memory for over a decade now. discuss it and help keep it a preserved memory here
Well, good thing for those of us who are C&NW fans, there are still a number of CNW cabooses out there. Most of them are getting to be in pretty bad shape, but still retain some form of CNW paint! The only exception I’ve found was one in Janesville that looked like it had received a very bad UP paint job. No gloss, no logo, just paint and a reporting mark… [V]
What were the official names for the green and yellow paint ?
I heard it was “English Stagecoach” for the yellow.
The old CNW brick depot is still standing in Green Bay, WI and being used as a restaurant/brewpub called Titletown Brewing. Very interesting old (1900) building and during the summer you can dine on the platform. CN main line runs by the depot and is pretty busy so you may get lucky and see a freight to go with your beer.
i heard “canary yellow”. not positive though what it is. Zito honestly doesnt look too bad. i like the look of it on the HO scale CNW locomotives.
yeah. in addition to cabooses, there’s plenty of other CNW rolling stock out there. the yellow cylindrical hoppers with the ball and bar on them. that’s always nice to see. plenty of CNW. shame there arent any classics of CNW left like steam locomotives or carbody diesels. are there any passenger cars still around that are displayed or used in excursion trains? i’d SO ride in one of those any day
DUDE, I WAS AT THAT RESTAURANT! that was FUN! the trains shooting by like that. i heard from someone in the GB railroad museum that it’s every hour. is it more random or frequent now? i heard this when the trak was still good ol’ Wisconsin Central.
it’s great to see so much CNW stuff left over that will never become memories.
And if I can help anyone with questions about the Wisconsin Division (Proviso to Madison, Proviso to Adams, Proviso to Fond du Lac), or the suburban operations, just let me know.
Oh! That sounds like a little slice of heaven! [:D]
That would make you one of the few! [xx(]
i remember cnw 1955, nelson and sterling,and dixon illinois. gramps worked 46 years west chicago to clinton iowa, the busiest of the whole main line. remember the 18 stall round house and the 3 story hotel slash resturant at south yard. both towers, and the landmark coal tower still there.
nelson will be known as global 3 and a half when the edelstein connection is opened this fall,oct for stackers hey hey.
nelson has more freights than any other place on the sytem of old cnw. and that will grow by 6 to 12 a day after oct.
the railside resturant in nelson has the best fi***his old boy has ever ate. there are cnw ho passenger trains inside that run around the place.
nelson is between dixon and sterling ill. and at north side of tracks youall can watch photograph 50 to 70 trains in 24 hrs.
What about CNW #1385? Or the soon-to-be CNW 411? IRM’s got some bilevel cars too…
cnw 5522 will be out n about july 15, ya hoo!! praise the lord
I think there is an overpass on I72 just west of Springfield Il. that has a CNW sign on it, I think it says “Employee Owned Chichago North Western” on it. My Illinois Gazetter looks like "Gateway Western "has that line now. Does anyone else know about this?
Lord Atmo: I don’t live in Green Bay so can’t really vouch for the frequency of trains going past the depot, but it did seem busier in Wisconsin Central days. Once I saw a unit coal train with UP power heading south empty, no doubt after delivering the black stuff to the power plant at the mouth of the Fox River. A siding next to the platform is used to store private cars, for a time there was a green and yellow observation car named “Flambeau” parked there. I always thought the CNW colors matched the green and gold of the Green Bay Packers quite well.
Yeah, I remember the first CNW locomotive I owned, or maybe even painted. Somebody said, “Ooo, look, a Packer train!” I don’t think it was all that coincidental that what was once the biggest railroad in Wisconsin shared a color scheme with Wisconsin’s team!
Say, who had blue and orange? (i.e. Bears colors)…
CSXT has blue and yellow. kinda close. yeah i really want to go to that restaurant again. i dont drink beer obviousely. i’m 18 only. but the fanning. quite nice
Even if you can’t drink, get a “ringside” seat in the bay window or on the platform and enjoy the food and the view.
Hey Lord Atmo. I had posted CONRAIL THREAD FOR EVERYBODY, but i going to take down this week or next week.
Can you take down a thread???
chinatown782411. If you don’t answer it then it becomes a dead thread.
Merging all the CNW threads into this one…what’s one more merger? LOL.