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
The Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Northwest was the home of giant women at least 1,000-feet tall, at least judging by the back cover of this brochure. The image is meant to convey the feeling of being “on top of the world,” … Continue reading
The Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road–the earliest predecessor of the Milwaukee Roads–operated its first train in 1850. To celebrate the centennial of that event, the Milwaukee issued this hardbound book in 1950. The book presents the history of the road … Continue reading
“No matter how your hopes may reach out to distant places and strange scenes–no matter what longing dreams of wonderlands beyond the humdrum daily life may be yours–here is a swift road that will sweep you away to your longed-for … Continue reading
In contrast with the cards shown a few days ago, these all have “Pacific” in the railroad name so are from after 1928. Also in contrast to some of the previous cards, these all appear to have been issued by … Continue reading
