By the time this calendar was produced, the Milwaukee Road had repainted its entire passenger fleet from its traditional maroon-and-orange into Union Pacific’s Armour yellow and harbor mist grey. This scene is supposed to be in Montana’s Sixteen Mile Canyon. … Continue reading
This calendar, unlike yesterday’s, has the right color of trains for an early-’50s Milwaukee Road publication. I don’t see a signature on the illustration. In fact, I think it is a photograph with the people in the foreground heavily retouched … Continue reading
This calendar is an impossibility. The pad says it is for 1952, but the Milwaukee Road didn’t start handling the “City” trains until late 1955. Milwaukee started using the Flexi-Vans shown in the picture in international service in 1960. In … Continue reading
Before Chicago Union Station opened in 1925, there was Chicago Union Depot, which opened in 1881. The depot served joint owners Pennsylvania, Burlington, Chicago & Alton, and what is now called the Milwaukee Road but was then called the St. … 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
Here are few items from the Milwaukee Road. One is from my collection, but most are just images I found on the web. Click image to download a 456-KB PDF of this envelope. First is this ticket envelope advertising the … Continue reading
This 1968 brochure never once mentions Union Pacific, but the tours it describes appear to be those in the UP Summer Tours booklet. They include tours to California, the Pacific Northwest/Canadian Rockies, Utah-Arizona, Yellowstone, Colorado, and Alaska. Click image to … Continue reading
