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Another thoroughly researched and enjoyable video. So sorry i'll miss your presentation in St Charles.

it was great to follow you to your destination. You should be proud of the record you created on this topic. Thank you

So the Peabody estate is a housing association which is notorious for appalling conditions, dreadful services and has not been privatised yet still parades as a charity.

Fascinating!! Very well done!! I'm eager to see more of your videos!!

What a great video. I live in Ohio but have always been fascinated by the Winston Tunnel.

My grandfather lived south of the rail yard. We used to explore the cars on the siding

Another great video! The amount of detailed history always impresses me

Great job! We enjoyed your visit!

Thank you both. Great job!

Another professional and educational video. Keep up the excellent work!!

Great job, thanks!

I almost grew up in Oelwein. My dad worked for the CNW and thought about taking a transfer to there from the M19 shops in Chicago.

Thanks! I really enjoyed this video! My wife and I visited Oelwein 3 years ago. Looking forward to the next 😊 one!ruclips.net/user/sgaming/emoji/7ff574f2/emoji_u1f60a.png

Another exceptional video! Always Quality content to relive the past only to bring history alive.

What a well done video! Very informative, professional, and accurate. For those who are interested, more information about the Oelwein Shops can be found in the book "The Back Shop Illustrated, Vol. 2"

Been waiting for Olwein. Great to see you guys have a #1, implying a #2. I look forward to all of them! Great work to all on this!

Than k you for this fantastic video on the history of Oelwein, Iowa and what the Chicago Great Western Railroad did to make Oelwein, Iowa the center of the railroad's operations. I enjoyed listening and seeing all the historical information that you presented to make the history of Oelwein, Iowa come alive. I also enjoyed all the information about what Chicago Great Western did to build the infrastructure that the railroad needed at the hub of its operations. In this video you took explored the history of Oelwein, Iowa from its inception through the first two decades of the 20th Century and you told us about the arrival of the surveyors of the Chicago Great Western Railroad through the same period of the 20th Century. In the next video on Oelwein, Iowa, I presume that you will stop your narration as of 1 July 1968 when the Chicago Great Western was merged into the Chicago & North Western Railway. (Posted on 22 November 2024 at 0022 CST.)

Born in Fayette county I appreciate the efforts put forth about the history including the arrival of numerous immigrants that was part of Oelwein's development. Like many cities that lost a major industry that has had a detrimental to its future we must understand the history of such an event. A friend of mine his father worked until nearly the end of the yard in 1988 then retired he said his father like many who worked in the industry had a special attachment to railroading as it was a truly unique career field.

While these episodes have been excellent history episodes, it is way too late to save the CGW. It is NOT too late to make sure the Canadian National doesn't pull the same stunt as what the Chicago North Western did in their "merger" with the CGW; with CN's Freeport to Dubuque Subdivision and abandon it or worse, allow it to fall into such disrepair that it becomes essentially useless. If anything, these episodes have shown the sociological and economic damage done with the CGW's abandonment. It can happen again. Well done and keep going!

Due to RUclips's 5K character limit for video descriptions, we are once again forced to place a portion of the description in the Comments Section. Below are the image credits for this video, in order of appearance: IMAGE CREDITS (FB = Facebook) - US Library of Congress - Iowa Dept of Natural Resources - Hub City Railroad Museum - www.ebay.com - Monte Barker (FB) - Bob Vaughn (FB) - www.worthpoint.com - James L Rueber - Deb Larsen Taylor (FB) - David Rumsey Collection - www.wikimedia.org - boudewjnhuijgens.getarchive.net - W A Vaughn (FB) - Chicago and Northwestern Historical Society - Elma Historical Society - www.newspapers.com (The Morning Democrat, The Courier, Chicago Tribune, Saint Paul Globe, Star Tribune, Omaha World Herald, Davenport Democrat, The Daily Times, Champaign Daily Gazette, Evening Times Republican, Leavenworth Times, The Gazette, The Evening Nonpareil, Muscatine News Tribune, Des Moines Tribune, Kingsbury County Independent, Bulletin Journal, Ottumwa Semi-Weekly Courier, Oskalooska Herald) - Progressive Men of Minnesota (1897), archive.org - AI Tool: replicate.com/tencentarc - www.familysearch.org - AI Tool: Bing Image Creator - Harold and Bonita Meier - www.newspaperarchives.com (Oelwein Register, Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Oelwein Daily Register) - Railway Master Mechanic (1900), archive.org - Ron Luckeroth (FB) - www.findagrave.com (Roll, KMS, - Sears Roebuck Catalogue, 1902, archive.org - Phil Green (FB) - US Geological Survey - US Bureau of Land Management - US Post Office Archives - Iowa State Historical Society - greenwichtime.com - davidcecelski.com - St Croix Historical Society - Italian Sons and Daughters of America, orderisda.org - Ottumwa Semi-Wekkly Courier - History of Immigration in Boston - Nick Cimino (FB) - Mary Frances Krull (FB)

I was wondering when this video would be released! Glad I checked RUclips today.

As the old saying goes: "There's no place like home." Welcome to my home. This penultimate video is somewhat bittersweet as it reminds me of what is no longer there, i.e. most of the shops. But it also brought back a lot of good memories as well. Understandably, covering Oelwein as it needed to be, you were right to make 2 longer videos. I am very impressed with the historic details in this 1st video & look forward to the completion in the next. There is way too much for me to comment on so I will focus on 1 thing. As the grandson & great grandson of Italian immigrants, that part of the story is closest to my heart. My great grandfather, Frank Aiello, immigrated to the USA in 1908 & came to Oelwein in 1910 to work in the shops. In 1914, my maternal grandfather, John Stasi & his brother Joe, immigrated to Oelwein in 1914, settling there because they knew Frank. He later married Frank's daughter. Uncle Joe worked in the roundhouse & Grandpa in the shops. My paternal grandfather, George Washington Troup, worked for the CGW as a blacksmith. I'm not sure what year he came to Oelwein, just that he came from Hagerstown, MD. I grew up om 7th Ave. NW 3 blocks from the roundhouse & 3 blocks from the yards, station, etc., as well. So, you can see the huge part the GCW played in my life. Like I said, looking forward to Part 2.

another great vid .. was able to add some info to my roundhouse file

Thanks for your historic background on the Chicago Great Western in Oelwein, Iowa and the town itself. Very well done! I was employed by the C&NW Railway through the 1980s and early 90s working in their engineering department (maintenance of way). It was about 1983-84 that I once stopped in to visit the former CGW yard at Oelwein which at the time had quite a few older, unused switch and road diesel locomotives sitting on the various tracks of the facility. As I recall most of the units were C&NW (probably former CGW too) that were an assortment of Electro-Motive, F, GP and SDs. Some were not North Western power and these included several General Electric, Auto-Train locomotives. I gather most of these engines from this time were eventually traded in for newer ones or outright scrapped. Thankfully I shot a fair number of print photos to document what was there at the time. Regretfully, I never made the time to visit the large, locomotive shops at Oelwein under C&NW ownership. Looking forward to your next video on Oelwein.

Thank you from the oelwein museum

Thank you for all your work you do on these videos, my favorite moments are where you show exactly where things stood. A sort of then and now.

whenever I go exploring on a Sunday afternoon around here it always strikes me what a really lovely place for the indigenous people to have lived.. life could not have been too harsh.. even the cold winters... and I even learned about North Avenue which is where I live.. only recommendation::: maybe nix that background music...

We love your mound videos… I lived and worked in Chicago area till 44 years old I wish I would have investigated these We live in southeast utah now…(Bears ears national monument ) is a few miles from our home We spend lots of time finding mounds and cliff dwelling here…there’s literally mound’s everywhere….. Thanks for the great videos….mammoths…..great western….great content…love it

Oh such a fascinating topic and great job! I had no clue we had body snatchers so close to "home"!

Thanks again! Great work!

Thank you for doing this! I have metal detected many farm field in Ogle County. My oldest coin, a 1840 dime, found in LaFayette Township south of Oregon.

There’s an interesting investigation trending in the news near me and they mentioned the Richard riot, which brought me here after looking it up. So cool that this was posted just 9 days ago!

Loved the story!

I really love these videos. I've always been interested in the ancient history of N America. Ever since I found my first artifact. As a Texan I never knew I'd be excited about the history of the Chicago area. Thanks for the awesome content.

Excellent!!

Very interesting!!

was there just yesterday .. the outbuilding is fully collapsed now

This was fascinating! Well done as usual!

Loved this so interesting and informative 👍👍

This was an interesting story about grave robberies and why some people felt the practice was needed to help trach future doctors about human anatomy. I found the secret recovery of Marilla Churchill Kinyon's body, and its subsequent return to her family fascinating. Thank you for your exhaustive research in putting together is BeHistoric episode. I appreciate all the work that you do to produce each episode of BeHistoric. (Post 21 October 2024 at 2049 CDT.)

Great story and awesome video! Thanks for making this.

I soon found out about the western hicks I moved to Aurora. Am very happy. West off rout 47 is loaded with deplorable in bred yahoos

In the closing credits.. the dry stream bed; was this thought to an actual location in the story??

Very cool story

Video just posted as Im heading to work. But going to watch after work!

And yet ANOTHER outstanding video!! Really enjoying this series and the tunnel story just facinated me!! What an intresting story!!

This is one of the most wholesome stories I've ever heard 🥲

What a great video. Thank you for this! I visited Julien Dubuque's monument today on my trip along the Mississippi river. I'm a Quebecois from Canada myself and never heard the story of Julien Dubuque. They don't teach it to us back home in high school. No one talks about this at all. This is truly an amazing story and the monument is such an honor. Respect!

This series is amazing! ❤❤