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Company Store – Help needed

With the recent passing of long time Company Store volunteer Wally Perlick, the Company Store needs some additional help. The Company Store is located at Union, IL on the Illinois Railroad Museum grounds. We are housed in the same building as the CNWHS Archives. We nornally meet at Union on Tuesdays around 9 am and work fulfilling and mailing online orders. You don’t have to commit to volunteering every Tuesday. If you can only volunteer once or twice a month,…

We are sad to announce that long time CNWHS Archive and Company Store volunteer Walter Hermann Perlick has passed away. Walter played a major part of setting up the new Company Store in Union.

Walter was born April 23, 1942, passed away November, 10, 2024. He is survived by his wife Mary, sister Marlene Rockel, nephews Carl (Laura) Rockel and Jeffrey (Vickie), and niece Laura (Kurt) Lichtenvoort and their children. He was much beloved by Mary’s siblings, Virginia (dec’d), Pauline, Anne and Paul (dec’d), and nieces and nephews. A proud graduate of St. Luke School and Luther North High School, he cherished the life-long friends he made there. He spent his forty-one year career…

Company Store update

Normally the Company Store Volunteers ship most orders out in seven days or less. Due to the Volunteer Staffing commitments, orders submitted on October 29th forward may not ship until Tuesday, November 12th, at the earliest or Tuesday, November 19th at the latest. We apologize in advance to our customers for any inconvenience this causes. Thank you for support of CNWHS Company Store.