{"id":17528,"date":"2025-10-29T12:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/?p=17528"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:37:33","slug":"elizabeth-illinois-railroad-history-chicago-great-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/?p=17528","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth, Illinois Railroad History: Chicago Great Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A true and documented railroad history written by John Wubbel.\u00a0 In this document, John describes his early life and the important aspects of an historic railroad village of Elizabeth, Illinois.\u00a0 John shared this history with the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitgalena.org\/listing\/chicago-great-western-railway-depot-museum\/76\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Great Western Railway Depot Museum<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">located in Elizabeth, Illinois<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Location<strong>:<\/strong> 111 East Myrtle Street, Elizabeth, IL 61028). Images in this documents were digitalized from slides taken some 50 years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is an addendum and interesting historical article at the end of the document written by Jerry Huddleston entitled, <em>The Hole in Stickney&#8217;s Pocketbook &#8211; CGW&#8217;s Winston Tunnel<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click on the link below and enjoy this interesting railroad history!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ElizabethRailRoadHistory.pdf\">Elizabeth, Illinois, Railroad History PDF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chicago-Great-Western-Elizabeth-Illinois-History.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chicago-Great-Western-Elizabeth-Illinois-History.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chicago-Great-Western-Elizabeth-Illinois-History.png 505w, https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chicago-Great-Western-Elizabeth-Illinois-History-300x282.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100092264462057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page for the Railroad museum and Elizabeth Historical Society Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A true and documented railroad history written by John Wubbel.\u00a0 In this document, John describes his early life and the important aspects of an historic railroad village of Elizabeth, Illinois.\u00a0 John shared this history with the Chicago Great Western Railway Depot Museum located in Elizabeth, Illinois (Location: 111 East Myrtle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-main-line-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17529,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17528\/revisions\/17529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}