Milwaukee introduced its full-length domes to the Olympian Hiawatha with a 16-page booklet in 1953. By 1960, the year before it cancelled the train, it was still advertising them but with this six-panel brochure.

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The image on the cover is the same (minus color) as the painting used on Milwaukee’s 1956 calendar. This painting, like that for the 1957 calendar, was by Robert Krantz.

One difference is that the train on the 1956 calendar is in Milwaukee’s maroon-and-orange colors. As shown in Kranz’s 1957 calendar, when Milwaukee took over the Chicago-Omaha portion of Union Pacific’s city trains in October 1955, it repainted its passenger fleet in UP’s Armour yellow and mist grey. To reflect this change, the maroon stripe has been edited out and two pinstripes (representing red) have been added to the picture on this brochure.

The five panels other than the cover manage to include almost as much information as the sixteen pages of the 1953 booklet: sleeping car and coach accommodations, the dining car, the lounge beneath the dome, and the skycap lounge-observation car. There’s even a section, not found in the longer booklet, advising how to take photographs from the dome car. What is missing from the brochure is information about Yellowstone, Rainier, and other sights along the way.