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Chicago Great Western Railway

Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City
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Chicago Great Western Railway

Summary

Chicago Great Western Railway is a railway company[1]. It draws 69 Wikipedia views per month (railway_company category, ranking #100 of 924).[2]

Key Facts

  • Chicago Great Western Railway is located in Minnesota[3].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway is in the country of United States[4].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's image is recorded as CGW 111-C (F3A) westbound freight passing the Elmhurst, Illinois station on August 14, 1962 (21820237513).jpg[5].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's instance of is recorded as railway company[6].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's instance of is recorded as business[7].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's headquarters location is recorded as Oelwein[8].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 130796166[9].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's Commons category is recorded as Chicago Great Western Railway[10].
  • +1892-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Chicago Great Western Railway[11].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway was dissolved in +1968-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02sv_0[13].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chicago Great Western Railway[14].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's replaced by is recorded as Chicago and North Western Transportation Company[15].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's reporting mark is recorded as CGW[16].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's archINFORM person/group ID is recorded as 123790[17].
  • Chicago Great Western Railway's PM20 film section ID is recorded as h1/co/A0353H/0104/L[18].

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Founding

+1892-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Chicago Great Western Railway[11].

Operations

Chicago Great Western Railway's headquarters location is recorded as Oelwein[8].

Dissolution

Chicago Great Western Railway was dissolved in +1968-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].

Why It Matters

Chicago Great Western Railway draws 69 Wikipedia views per month (railway_company category, ranking #100 of 924).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

business Minnesota United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . archinform.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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