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in Chicago between 21st and 31st Streets, the fair opened after only six months of planning. A grand opening for the fair commenced on July 20 with a parade that featured such spectacles as a military marching band and a replica of a troop train, a contingent of cowboys and Native Americans, a
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The highlight of the Chicago Railroad Fair was the "Wheels A-Rolling" pageant. This was a dramatic and musical presentation intended to showcase the development of transportation and the railroads across the country beginning with trails and waterways. The pageant included a recreation of the
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The fair was open from July 20, 1948 to October 3, 1948 and June 25, 1949 to October 2, 1949. Attendance during 1948 was 2,500,813 people. In 1949 this attendance record was broken on September 25, 1949 a week before the fair closed. When the fair ended in 1949, a total of 2,732,739 people had
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38 railroads and more than 20 railroad equipment manufacturers participated in the Chicago Railroad Fair exhibiting equipment and interpretive displays around the fair's theme of 100 years of railroad history. The majority of the participating railroads maintained a direct rail connection to
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attended the fair. To their enjoyment they not only got to see all of the equipment, but they were also allowed to operate some of the steam locomotives that were at the Fair. Upon their return to Los Angeles, Disney used the Fair, the House of David Amusement Park, and
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attended that year. The highest date of attendance was Sunday, August 1, 1948 when 75,257 passed through the fair gates. It was the first Chicago fair where attendance in the second year exceeded the first year's total.
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and is often referred to as "the last great railroad fair" with 39 railroad companies participating. The board of directors for the show was a veritable "Who's Who" of railroad company executives.
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In addition to being the last great assembly of railroad equipment and technology by participating railroad companies, the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair holds a lesser known honor and connection to
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The fair was rapidly planned during the winter and spring of 1948, and originally scheduled to run between July and August of that summer. Erected on 50 acres (200,000 m) of
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built in 1882, and coaches, open observation cars and a railway post office car which had been built new by CB&Q in 1880's style. The train was lettered for the
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number 268 and coaches, all lettered for the fictional "Colorado Springs and Tincup Railroad". The complete "Deadwood Central" train was acquired in 1956 by the
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, "Santa Fe Railway Indian Village" (ATSF). The explanatory brochure was printed in both 1948 and 1949.
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The officers and board of directors for the fair were mostly prominent railroad executives. The fair's officers were:
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This site includes many more color photos from the fair; use "Chicago Railroad Fair" as the search term.
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was an event organized to celebrate and commemorate 100 years of railroad history west of
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The fair's directors included (in alphabetical order by surname):
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Official Guide Book and Program for the Pageant Wheels A-Rolling
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The cover for the Chicago Railroad Fair's 1949 official program
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Photo of the Chicago Railroad Fair entrance on July 26, 1948
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Great Northern Railway's 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair flyer
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Gruber, John, ed. (May–June 1998). "Chicago's Big Show".
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and by Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy locomotive no. 35)
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July 20, 1948 β€“ October 2, 1949
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Anderson, W.V., "Railroad News and Editorial Comment,"
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Empire State Express locomotive 999 on display at the
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was used in the pageant, and is now preserved at the
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Chicago. The companies that participated included:
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Infobox event
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Chicago Railroad Fair 1948 program cover
Burnham Park
Chicago
Rail transportation in the United States
Chicago and North Western Railway
Chicago, Illinois
Lake Michigan
Chicago and North Western Railway
Galena and Chicago Union Railroad
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Burnham Park
Tom Thumb
Casey Jones
General Motors
Narrow Gauge
CB&Q
Colorado and Southern
2-6-0
Deadwood Central Railroad
D&RGW
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Black Hills Central Railroad
Freedom Train
Lenox R. Lohr
Museum of Science and Industry
R.L. Williams
Chicago and North Western Railway

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