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Welcome to the Web Site of the Veterans’ Association of the Chicago & North Western Railway. We hope that these pages will provide you with information about the Association and rail-related issues, and also be a means for you to stay in touch with your friends and co-workers.
This web site has been a while in coming and the progress you see due to Rick Todd’s help. Rick is a good friend Dewayne’s and graciously offered to lend a hand. Once something is understood, it’s simple – we all know that. Coming to that point of comprehension is quite another matter. Rick made the difficult seem easy and did so with patience and understanding. Without his help, you would not be looking at this page or anything else on this web site. Thank you, Rick!
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Annual UTU and BRC Unity Family Picnic - Dear
CNW Vets Members: Once
again, Proviso Union Locals UTU 577, UTU
528, UTU597,. and BRC 6176 will be sponsoring the Annual Unity Family Picnic
on The
Grove is located off I-290 at the On
the menu will be pulled pork, chicken breasts in a nice lemon-garlic sauce,
hot dogs, hamburgers, fresh-sliced watermelon, green salads, potato salad, cole slaw, Ice Creams from the freezer truck from
Schwann's...sno-cones...there will be the ever-popular train ride for the
kids along with temporary tattoos and bean-bag toss games... in short, a
great Saturday-before-Labor Day celebration with your railroad Brothers and Sisters. ALL
CNW VETERAN'S ASSOCIATION MEMBERS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO BE OUR HONORED
GUESTS AT THESE FESTIVITIES AND ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND. See
you at Grove 32 on the 4th of September ! Pat McNamara President and First
Vice-Chairman United Transportation Local 577 |
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Thanks to Jim
Hallgren, we are able to tell the story of the C&NW Championship
16-Inch softball team, which was started back in the 1920’s by
Ravenswood office employees and continued into the 1990’s. There is a link under Historical Notes
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MetLife Insurance from Over 40 Years Ago Are you covered? Back in 1964, 20 of the railroad unions got us some life insurance with MetLife. The amount reduces to $2,000 upon retirement but $2,000.00 is a lot better than nothing. That was over 40 years ago and many have forgotten all about this. The $2,000 is a national railroad death benefit;
however, you have to call and apply for it. MetLife is in This is life insurance via the National Railroad contract signed by the national carriers and 20 RR unions in 1964. The only exception that I am aware of is that certain railroad employees who took buy outs at the C&NW signed off on any and all future benefits ---- and this included this $2,000 insurance, unfortunately. For years MetLife
tried to conceal this information, but a federal court case required MetLife
to provide an 800 number. Met Life will send a claim form which
will have to be filled out and returned along with a Death Certificate. If you find your name
is not in their records and you feel it should be on the list, please
contact your union for advice. (Submitted by Truman Koehn.)
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The 2007 Operation Lifesaver train ran between
West Chicago, Belvidere, Janesville & Crystal Lake on June 1 through 4,
2007. Mark Llanuza sent us some photographs and they are located here. If you
recognize any of the unidentified people, please let us know. |
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Read about
The Rollins W. Coakley Railroad Park
located in |
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Thanks to Jim
Yanke, we have another Engineers’ Class Photo. Look it over and tell us who you
recognize. It’s located here, down a ways from the top of the page. |
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Conductors’
Class Photos Dave Hawley sent us four conductors’ class photos. One is dated |
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Harvard Memorial Dave Hawley sent us a picture of the memorial to Wisconsin
Division Engineers Frank Nolan, Sr.,
Frank Nolan, Jr. and Dick Brady,
& to Katy McCauley. It’s located in Harvard. Click here to have a look. |
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The C&NW in R.J.
DeBerg sent us some pictures of
his exceptional “backyard” railroad, patterned after the Chicago
& North Western, naturally! Click here to have a look at
it. R.J. says he did all this in 3-1/2 years! Great job!!
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The Wyeville
Mystery Man
At long last, the “Wyeville Mystery Man has
been identified. He is Laverne Nelson, now residing in Laverne’s picture can be seen here at the bottom of the
page. |
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Thanks to Charlie
McLaughlin, we have some great photos from |
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NARVRE (National Association of Retired & Veteran Railway Employees, Inc.)
WHAT CAN NARVRE BRING TO THE TABLE FOR NEW
MEMBERS? Click here and find out! Please support NARVRE. They are looking out for your
interests. -
National Association of Retired & Veteran
Railway Employees, Inc. Established |
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Mystery
Photograph Identified The “Mystery Photograph” has been in the Photographs section for about two years now, ever since Ray Weart sent it in. A “mystery” no more, thanks to Jerry Drager, who gets a year’s free dues for this fine contribution! Click here for the Jerry’s solution. We regret that Jerry passed away on May 4, 2007. Additional details are on the Member’s News page. Click here for a photo of Jerry engaged in one of his most favorite activities. |
Thanks are also in order for several people who’ve made contributions to our web site. Without their help, this would be a pretty dismal production and this help is really appreciated. To: Bob Alba, Gary, Baloun, Betty Knuth Baumann, Chris Burger, Dusty Burman, Harold Cardo, Les (Zoom-Zoom) Childers, G. Cira P.J. Cleary, Scott Coleman, Ron Corrigan, Laurie Cosentino, Gerald Cramer, R.J. DeBerg, Tim Deneen, Jerry Drager, Jon Emery, Brian Emmer, Mary Estrada, Kay Ewert, Stan Eyres, Bob Fisher, Cliff Gilmore, Walter Gorlewski, Jim Hallgren, Jim Hansen, R.B. Harrison, Dave Hawley, Ed Henry, Randy Johnson, Roger King, Truman Koehn, Tom Kraemer, Charlie Kuehn, Kevin Leahy, John Leahy, Captain Wally Lindemann, Mark Llanuza, Ted Lontkowski, Keith Luebke, Charlie McLaughlin, Pat McNamara, Rick Mills, Loren Mulvaney, Don & Joan Mundth, Laverne Nelson, Mark & Mike Nelson, Karl Pachmayer, Stan Peczkowski, Jeff Phillips, Michael Powell, Merrill Price, Joe Richart, Gale Roberts, Rich Sandowski, J.P. Schillace, Mickey Senase, the late Wally Smith, Dewayne Stiefvater, Dennis Stowe, Dan & Yvonne Sylvester, Tom Thornton, Joe Vettese, Lance Wales, Ray Weart, Dave Wells, Marvin Williams, Louis Wilson, Bill Wismeth, Jim Yanke and Mike Yuhas, we convey our sincere thanks and appreciation.
Anyone having pictures or other information you’d like to share, please send it to the webmaster. Clicking on the “Contact Us” link will open up an e-mail in which you can send your news and to which you can attach photos.
Your comments, suggestions and ideas for additions to this site are most welcome. Also, don’t hesitate to tell us what you don’t like. Just use the same “Contact Us” link below. If you find a broken link, please let us know.
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Chapter Dinners & Events
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Recent Events |
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Madison
Chapter Luncheon
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Green Bay Chapter Meeting
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Member News - |
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Members – By Service Date |
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Members – Alphabetical (Pending) |
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Long in the Service |
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The C.& N.W. Lives! |
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Remembering |
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Retirements |
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Stuff You May Have Missed |
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Photographs
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Culture |
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Historical Notes |
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This web site was last revised on 09/01/10 |
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Number of Visitors Since 09/17/04 |
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