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
Category Archives: Hiawatha
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
After the Super Chief received its domes on January 29, 1951, no further trains became domeliners until 1952, when domes were added to several minor trains: the Missouri Pacific Texas Eagle and Missouri River Eagle in July; the Wabash City … Continue reading
A consulting firm named Coverdale and Colpitts (now part of URS) once did a variety of economic analyses for the rail industry. In 1935, the firm published a report on the Burlington Zephyrs, followed by reports in 1938, 1939, 1941, … Continue reading
The Burlington not only had to compete with the Union Pacific in the Chicago-Denver market, it had two other entrenched rivals in the Chicago-Twin Cities corridor. The routes of both of the other railroads, the Chicago & North Western and … Continue reading