For nearly sixty years the primary means of transportation for Wheaton College staff, students or anybody traveling from the Fox River Valley into the concrete canyons of the Windy City was the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin railway. Established in 1902, the locomotive, called “The Roarin’ Elgin,” conveyed passengers and freight between Chicago, Geneva, Batavia, Aurora, Elgin and St. Charles. Because evening trains headed westward from Chicago into the setting sun, it was also romantically (but unofficially) nicknamed the “Sunset Lines.”