- 07/21/00 05:00:18

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any history on the town of Gretna where The Great Western Railroad passed thru?

D.Benson - 07/08/00 03:56:22
My Email:benson@galenalink.com

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Great website,glad I was able to find it.Unfortunately Im not old enough to have been able to see the CGW in action even though I live close to the old eastern division. hopefully I will be able to obtain more info about the CGW here. thanks Dan.

Mark Malaby - 07/03/00 03:13:25
My Email:yosarian@ij.net

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I have the "Train Shed Cyclopedia no 24, stations and depots" very early in the book are depots for the Winona and Southwestern. They appear to be very much like the branchline depots shown here. Interestingly, the cyclopedia refers to them as types (Typ D, Type E etc) based on footprint dimensions. Can anyone confirm that these are the CGW standard depot plans?

kris - 06/27/00 00:43:57
My Email:ousenk@aol.com

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just purchesed the stewart models of the funits need to know were the roadnumbers are located on them the color of the units aer all maroon i know the numbers just need to know were to put them can any body e-mail a pitcher like the site thanks

kris - 06/27/00 00:38:10
My Email:ousenk@aol.com

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just purchased the stewart models of the f units


Dennis Browder - 05/20/00 20:18:57
My Email:dbrowjeb@aol.com

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What a great site! Thanks much. im modeling C&NW at the merger era so some of the maroon F units will look great! keep up the good work. Thanks Alot D. Browder

Karen Alvarez - 02/10/00 00:11:58
My Email:KDAlvarez@aol.com

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Terriffic site.

S. Rojas - 02/06/00 21:41:18
My Email:Rojazz4@gatewaynet.com

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I came across a stock certificate from the Chicago Great Western Railroad dated 10/9/31. I would like to know if this has any value? Has this company merged and if so with whom? Thanks S.Rojas

Patrick Hansen - 01/18/00 02:44:47
My Email:gladsava@aol.com

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Glad found CGW web site!!! I like to know if anyone out there have B/W or color picyures and/or slides of CGW items at Gladbrook, Iowa as i grew up there... please kindly send me the info...thanks!!!

Mike Berkshire - 12/20/99 23:59:57
My Email:lmtc1@eggconnect.net

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At last! I've been interested in US roads for about 25 years but only recently (2years ago) came across the CGW. I've been unable to find out too much, except that for a time it ran very heavy steam locos of it's own manufacture and very attractive F3 iesels. I am reading with interest your site and am grateful for the information. I plan to get an ABBA lash up painted in the maroon, scarlet black & gold for my collection. I am a member of the Southtrak MRC in Sussex England & would be very inter sted in any further information that comes my way. Now I'm going back to read your site in detail. Thanks. Mike Berkshire.

Robert Todd - 12/13/99 00:06:36
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My Email:thetodds@coredcs.com

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Great site and a great subject for one! I was hired in Sept of 69 at Bell Ave. I fired and was then promoted to the right side in April of 71. Sad to say it was already the C&NW but at least I worked the old Missouri Division from Oelwien on the north to KC on the south. I worked out of Des Moi es, Iowa. I only wish I had taken photographs then of all that wonderful power we had back then! We didn't always think it so wonderful then!!! I enjoy my memories of the Missouri Division and all the men I worked with. If anyone out there remembers my name, email me, lets talk about old times. I'm still at it on the Wisconsin Central out of Stevens Point, WI with 6 yrs. 9mos. to go, I've got my 30 in and counting. My wife says I'll die at the throttle................. HA! Enjoyed your site very much and will visit often. Any one wanting to share about the CGW or the CNW feel free to email or visit my site. Keep up the great work! Bob

Kevin Cunningham - 11/12/99 13:34:37
My Email:k.t.cunningham@worldnet.att.net

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I expect to be in Cedar Falls next spring or summer. Is there someone who might send me a brief summary of railroading today in that city? Many thanks for your time It appears that CGW was in CF, on a branch.!

11/10/99 05:24:11

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Richard Young - 10/31/99 20:09:46
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I was delighted to find your website. I'm part of the CGW family. My brother and I both worked for the CGW in Oelwein and my Dad Harry A. Young was an officer of the CGW. There are a wealth of stories to tell about the CGW. I hope that you will includ that Walter Chrysler was Superintendent of Motive Power and Equipment prior to becoming an automobile giant. I remember seeing drawings that were signed by him. And too, what about the ice house in Oelwein. It was supposedly the largest ice house in t e U.S. And, the CGW was the first railroad to use radio communications and was supposedly the first all diesel railroad. My Dad was truly a pioneer in the field of computers and was one of those responsible for creating and using the colored bars on rai road cars so that they could be automatically read as they were passing by a station. In fact, he was on of the early pioneers in automating railroads using computers. Bill Deramus lent my Dad to the Chicago North Western Railroad to help automate them nd their president Ben Heinaman credited my Dad with putting his commuter trains on the on-time schedule.

JC Clark - 10/11/99 15:43:43
My Email:JCClark329@aol.com

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great website!...does anyone have a color photo of CGW engine #17 [re-numbered to CNW 1018]?...I made my first paid trip with this unit over 20 yrs. ago and would like a picture of it. Thanks.

joel norman - 10/10/99 21:54:29
My Email:qokc-alo@juno.com

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hello:would like to make this very simple..I need any modeling data(ho scale)on the CGW TOFC flats and trailers(modeling same)from the late 40's era. Which magazines,etc and a general overview of CGW steam(with the new bachman/Ath/LifeLike models which fits CGW????).. thanks Joel Norman

robert ohms - 07/30/99 02:41:55
My Email:ohms@internetni.com

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U should have more stuff on Winston Tunnel. i live close 2 it. It is a wonderful. Thank u 4 reading this.

Dave Chevalier - 07/10/99 19:26:19
My Email:SciFiWriter@netscape.net

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Thank God I found this site! I have been looking for resources for my favorite railroad for years. I grew up next to the line as it went into Council Bluffs, Iowa and can remember vividly with fondness those strings of F-units and GP-30s, as well as the last of the CGW steam into CB. Speaking of which, can anyone tell me, do you know the last year the CGW steam sereve Council Bluffs? And what locomotives made that run? Again, glad as I can be to have found this site and will be here on and off for a long time. Keep it up and maintained for us all. Dave Chevalier

D E Rehlander - 07/01/99 00:39:19
My Email:PACKRRAF56@AOL.COM

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Supersite My father & grand father both retired CGW. Does my heart good to see the cornbelt honered like it should. I'm a hoghead on the Iowa Northern & want you to keep up the good work

clayton pape - 06/24/99 00:50:20

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Glad to see a granger RR remembered.

Richard Behrendt - 06/23/99 03:00:58
My Email:cubguy@msn.com

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Great site! My Grandfather, Paul Behrendt, worked for the CGW in the boiler works which I believe were in Stockton. Let me know if you can. He was killed in a boiler works accident in Feb 1916 at the age of 32. I know my Grandparents were living in St ckton at that time and he was buried in Chicago. I have 3 photos of the boiler works taken in 1912(or so) which I can email you. Let me know. Ric Behrendt

Henry R. Mackey - 06/22/99 21:50:53
My Email:kb9cqo@arrl.org

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Greetings to the Webmaster & all that reads the following, I have just checked into the sight and have up to this moment only checked comments left by previous visitors. In 1962 I graduated from the Iowa Institute of Telegraphy in Marshalltown, IA. I had a promise of a position with the CGW after graduation, but for some odd reason I hired out with the C&NW. I was hired as a Relief Agent/Telegrapher by MJR in May of 1962. MJR was the Chief Train Dispatcher of the M&StL Div of the C&NW Ry Co., and he was located in Minneapolis, MN. I never did quite understand why I hired with the C&NW rather than the CGW, but that was only one of the many things I have done in my life that I don't understand the reasoning thereof. I continued my railroad career, and retired in 1996 from the now "chewed up and spit out" Conrail. I am writing these bits of useless information hoping that someone that I may have went to school with in Iowa, or that someone knowing of a site for the M& tL may be able to contact me. The best to you all, Henry R. Mackey/kb9cqo@arrl.org

Robert Ohms - 06/12/99 01:05:16
My Email:ohms@internetni.com

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You need more on Winston Tunnel. Thank you for reading this.

Robert - 06/12/99 01:03:42

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Robert - 06/12/99 01:03:41

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Bob McCall - 05/27/99 02:29:13
My Email:bobmccall@lisco.com

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Most excellent site on the CGW, if I could find something like this on the M&STL it would be great.

Linda Hemenway - 05/19/99 23:27:41
My Email:hemenwa@ibm.net

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Sure is nice to see the CGW on the net. I grew up in Austin, Minnesota and remember the freight trains. They used to catch us sometimes on our way to church--I didn't mind the delay! I am especially interested in the old grade out of Winona, Minnesota nd up through the Bear Creek Valley on the way to Altura. I've found traces of the CGW from Rochester, Minnesota along I-90 and through the Bear Creek Valley, although I've never quite placed the rock cut that was between the two huge wooden trestles bui t around the 1880's. The Winona Historical Society in Winona has some great pre-CGW material, including some stock coupons owned by some big Robber Barons from back East. I'd really like to find some local color stories about the Winona and Southwestern later CGW). Thanks.

John Trulson - 05/09/99 18:41:19
My Email:norskeviking@email.msn.com

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I grew up in St.Paul during the forties and early fifties. I am modeling several of the Great Western's locomotives. Do you have a source for the round herald used on steam loco tenders? I plan on getting one of Athearns 2-8-2's when they come out. John

SCOTT CONGDON - 05/03/99 23:38:17
My Email:SCottcong@aol.com

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VERRY NICE SIGHT!!! COULD YOU HELP ME LOCATE A CGW WOOD CABOOSE IN BRASS. (HO SCALE) I THINK THEY WERE MADE BY ORNETAL IN 1986. THANKS.SCOTT CONGDON IN BIRCH RUN, MI.

Scott Greig - 04/30/99 21:56:16

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My grandfather was a conductor for the CGW from the early 1920s to 1961. I understand he was very proud to be part of the Great Western, and I'm glad to see that the "Great Weedy" has been put ont he 'Net.

andrew - 02/15/99 15:50:50
My URL:http://angelfire.com
My Email:www.angelfire.com

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these photos are great! i am a big csx fan. thanks for this great site.

TAT - 02/07/99 17:52:31

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The book "Chicago Great Western color guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment" is included in the bibliography at the top in the Morning Sun section. This is a very good modeling resource.

Joe Piersen - 02/06/99 22:30:11
My Email:jp[iersen@theramp.net

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Please add to the bibliography: "Chicago Great Western Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment" by Gene Green, Morning Sun, 1998 It received a glowing review in the last issue of North Western Lines. Joe Piersen

- 01/21/99 00:39:46

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jeff b. - 01/05/99 03:02:08
My Email:jbil60154Aaol.com

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Enjoyed your site very much. Thank you for the personal touch about your father. I am interested in company logos, especially the ones I remember from my hometown of Decatur, IL. My grandfather worked for the Wabash. I remember CGW logos and CGW being st nciled(if thats the right word) on the sides of trains. I was born in '63 so I figure I may have seen CGW trains when they were still CGW but probably they were already part of CNW and just hadn't been repainted or replaced as the case may be. One more omment. I remember the N&W passenger terminal in Decatur as being huge and still grand but dusty and fading fast. The last time I was in it was when my mother and grandmother came back from Detroit on the train. It had to have been '67 or '68 at the la est. I remember feeling sad that nobody seemed to care about the building. I thought it was great! Do you have a suggestion about a site that would have a complete file of company logos? Thanks for the time.

David Kelly - 01/01/99 15:01:41
My Email:David Kelly@uni.edu

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Great website. Any idea where I can get a coffee cup with the Great Western logo?

Joe Piersen - 11/30/98 01:03:26
My Email:jpiersen@theramp.net

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One source of information about the CGW is the C&NWHS Archives. This resource is especially strong on freight cars in the period 1935 - 1968. Use the email address attached. Also, there is a new CGW freight car book out written by Gene Green. It is published by Morning Sun and has been advertised extensively. JP

Dan Phipps - 11/06/98 01:33:57
My Email:danp@slplan.com

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I opened your web site looking for the Maple Leaf Logo used prior to about 1912. I found a photo in a book of a furniture car taken in 1903, and am trying to duplicate the car in G-scale. The photo lacks sufficient detail for this effort, and I am hoping ou may have a suggestion where I can find this logo. Thanks, Dan (Son and Grandson of Great Western Men)

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