The Chicago Great Western Railway was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. It was founded by Alpheus Beede Stickney in 1885 as a regional line between St. Paul
A CGW freight train passing Elmhurst, Illinois from just east of York Street in 1962
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Railway in 1903, following completion of lines in Iowa to Sioux City and Omaha, Nebraska, and branch lines in Minnesota
1907 Chicago Great Western ad.
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Chicago Great Western Railway
…States, the railroad was sometimes called the Lucky Strike Road, due to the similarity in design between the herald of the CGW and the logo used for Lucky Strike cigarettes. In 1968 it merged with the Chicago and North Western Railway (CNW), which abandoned most of the CGW's trackage…
The "It's Toasted" ad as explained, from 1917
Lucky Strike factories in Durham, North Carolina, pictured in 2014
Advertising photo for Lucky Strike by Nickolas Muray, 1936
British Lucky Strike pack with government health warning, alongside a cigarette