Though the Columbian only had a diner-lounge car to entertain passengers bored with their coach or sleeping car seats, it apparently was fancy enough to offer this stationery. It apparently wasn’t fancy enough for the stationery itself to be very … Continue reading
This 1951 timetable focuses on the Olympian Hiawatha and Columbian. It also includes schedules for the Morning Hiawatha from Chicago to the Twin Cities, but for some reason not the Afternoon Hiawatha, even though that train continued to operate for … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road did not have a great claim to have access to Yellowstone Park. Where the NP and UP went right to park entrances in Gardiner and West Yellowstone, Milwaukee’s closest approach to a park entrance was Gallatin Gateway, … Continue reading
This is a more plebeian version of the elegant color brochure issued about this train. Like the postcard, but unlike the color brochure, the black-and-white image on the cover of this brochure just has one train rather than two trains … Continue reading
This 76-page booklet says it was originally titled “Veterans Victory Vacations,” apparently in an attempt to justify recreational travel on the part of returning vets while World War II was still underway. This particular version, minus the “Veterans,” was published … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road was a direct competitor over many of its routes with the Chicago & North Western. Both offered a dozen trains a day between Chicago and Milwaukee and several more trains a day to various cities in Iowa, … Continue reading
Chicago & North Western fully streamlined its 400 in 1939, but the postmark on this postcard showing the train crossing the Mississippi on the Stone Arch Bridge is dated 1949. The bridge itself was built by the Great Northern Railway, … Continue reading
This Milwaukee Road note page says, “Route of the Super Dome Hiawathas and Western ‘Cities’ Streamliners.” This dates it to later than October 30, 1955, when Union Pacific shifted its passenger trains from the C&NW to the Milwaukee for their … Continue reading
Playing on the “progress” theme of Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress fair, the Milwaukee Road presented its version of what would soon be called a streamlined passenger car. It has roughly the same profile of future streamlined cars, instead of … Continue reading
This piece of on-board stationery shows that the Pacific Limited advertised in yesterday’s brochure was an old train even in 1940. The stationery has logos for the Panama-Pacific Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the 1914 opening … Continue reading
