All vestiges of the recreational destination that was Naperville’s Burlington Park, as depicted in this photo from the ...

It started much better than it ended. In its final days, the Shawver Hotel was a boarded up, crumbling brick eyesore on the ...

CHICAGO, Ill., March 22. -- The Chicago, Burlington and Northern is to be purchased outright by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Company. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

It was created on March 2, 1970, by the merger of the Northern Pacific Railway; the Great Northern Railway; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway.

News & Products for the week of March 24th 2025 Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading ...

Terry Abrisz had some help Saturday morning as he traced railroad history in Burlington, Lee County and Illinois during the ...

has been railroading since 1957. That’s 67 years of service … and counting. When Hill hired on to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), a BNSF predecessor, President Eisenhower was living ...

who would take the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train line out to the “country” to picnic, swim, boat and participate in other outdoor recreational activities. It closed in 1899, and was ...

David Ingles photo When the long-anticipated “Hill Lines” merger finally created the Burlington Northern on March 2, 1970, it was time not to mourn the loss of a favorite, the Chicago, Burlington & ...