Upcoming Meetings at the same location:

 

Chicago Temple

77 West Washington (across from City Hall)

3rd Floor

 

Friday - September 11th - 7:00 PM

Railway and Locomotive Historical

Society, Chicago Chapter

 

 

 

 

Chicago and Its Oldest Railroad by Mike Blaszak

Mike will present a two part program on (1) the railroads of Chicago from 1848 to date, and  (2) the relationship of the Chicago & North Western and the Union Pacific from the moment they connected in 1867 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, to the final day of the C&NW in October 1995, when the UP, having acquired stock control of the line, leased it and its name vanished from the Official Guide.

 

Chicago railroading history began in 1848 when the first few miles of the Galena & Chicago Union were laid out to Kettlestrings Grove, now known as Oak Park.  Mike will cover this history in five-year intervals, with illustrative maps and historical comment, from that first year until 2008, or thereabouts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday - September 18th - 7:30 PM

Railroad Club of Chicago

$3 donation requested from nonmembers

 

Passenger Railroading in San Francisco, 1977 - Present

by Mike Blaszak

including cable cars, streetcars, SP and Caltrain, suburban trains, Bart and Amtrak