North Western Limited is a pioneering manufacturer of fine N and HO scale models, detail parts, and craftsman-style kits of intercity passenger and suburban commuter equipment from the Chicago & North Western railroad (C&NW), Chicago Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), Metra, and more.

"To anyone outside, a speeding train is a thunderbolt of driving rods, a hot hiss of steam, a blurred flash of coaches, a wall of movement and of noise, a shriek, a wail, and then just emptiness and absence, with a feeling of 'There goes everybody!' without knowing who anybody is... And all of a sudden the watcher feels the vastness and loneliness of America, and the nothingness of all those little lives hurled past upon the immensity of the continent. But if one is inside the train, everything is different."

- Thomas Wolfe