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C&NW planned a "Corn King 400" to run between Chicago on the east, and Sioux City and Omaha on the west, in the years just after WWII. Although a schedule for the proposed train was publicized, and cars for it were built and delivered, the train never materialized. (It would have been in head-to-head competition with Milwaukee Road's "Midwest Hiawatha".) <br /> <br />After the through trains jointly operated with UP and SP were shifted to Milwaukee Road in October 1955, C&NW did establish a "400" train on the east-west main line--the "Kate Shelley 400" which ran from Chicago as far west as Boone, Iowa. The train eventually was reduced to a Chicago-Clinton, Iowa run, but lasted until the Amtrak takeover in 1971.
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