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The meal offerings in this menu are the most elaborate of any of the dinner menus we have seen from the Milwaukee Road. The only ones that have been comparable are a 1965 lunch menu and another lunch menu from … Continue reading
Category Archives: Hiawatha
This is the menu for the lounge that replaced the Tip Tap Grill in 1952. However, it offered only beverages, not sandwiches or other café-type foods. “Your dining car is to the rear of the Super Dome Car,” says a … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road had some beautiful covers reminiscent of Native American designs for its Hiawatha menus. This menu offers full means with unspecified fish, old fashioned smothered steak, roast chicken, or cold meats with soup, bread, potatoes, vegetable, rolls, dessert, … Continue reading
The brilliant cover of this booklet was designed to remind travelers that only the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul offered all-steel trains between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest in 1911. At that time, the steel industry, though more than 50 … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a lunch menu with this cover that was dated 1965. This one is undated and some of the prices are a little higher and some a little lower than the 1965 menu, so I can’t tell whether … Continue reading
About two years ago, I presented a brochure advertising the 1938 Hiawatha. Here’s another brochure for the same train. The two are similar in many ways, but this one is older because it advertises only one train per day, while … Continue reading
The Midwest Hiawatha connected Chicago with Sioux City, Iowa and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with a few cars diverging at Manilla, Iowa to got to Omaha. It began operating in December, 1940, with hand-me-down equipment from the Twin Cities Hiawatha. … Continue reading
This booklet from my own collection describes the same train as yesterday’s, and even has a similar catch phrase inside: “Designed [rather than Fashioned] for Your Travel Pleasure.” Yet the format and colors are completely different. Click image to download … Continue reading
This brochure from the Bill Hough collection describes the fourth and finest iteration of the Milwaukee Road Twin Cities Hiawatha. The first, introduced in 1935, had an observation car with tiny windows in the rear. In 1937, a new train … Continue reading
This brochure advertises the third version of the Milwaukee Hiawatha, the first two appearing in 1935 and 1937. The railroad was able to make such rapid upgrades because it could assign the older trains to other routes begging for faster, … Continue reading