High-wheeled North Western 4-6-4

High-wheeled North Western 4-6-4

By Angela Cotey | July 3, 2024

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Chicago & North Western 4-6-4 No. 4004, having brought the San Francisco-bound Gold Coast in from Chicago, backs out of Omaha Union Station for servicing in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on June 6, 1953. Alco built nine of these 84-inch-drivered Hudsons for C&NW in 1938.
R. R. Malinoski photo

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