Hiawatha (train)
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The Hiawathas were a fleet of named passenger trains operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad between Chicago and various destinations in the Midwest and Western United States. The most notable of these trains was the original Twin Cities Hiawatha, which served the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The train was named for the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Stylized 1939 advertisement featuring a streamlined 4-6-4 class F7 steam locomotive.
A 1935 Beaver Tail observation car at Union Station (Chicago) in 1943
Interior of the dining cars on the Hiawatha, 1939
One of the Milwaukee Railroad's Super Dome cars.
Milwaukee Road
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The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), better known as the Milwaukee Road, was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwest and Northwest of the United States from 1847 until 1986.
Twin Cities Hiawatha postcard from 1935
Milwaukee Road 261 is a preserved Milwaukee Road steam locomotive that operates excursion trains.
A Milwaukee Road steeplecab electric switcher.
An EF-1 boxcab hauls the Olympian through Montana Canyon in 1925.