Soon after the Milwaukee went way over budget finishing its Pacific Extension in 1908, it decided to spend even more money electrifying the portions of the route in the Rocky and Cascade mountains. Electrification was all the rage in the … Continue reading
We’ve already seen Milwaukee timetables from 1968 and 1970. Here’s one in between. Where the 1968 timetable showed trains 15 & 16, the former Olympian Hiawatha, cut back to Aberdeen, South Dakota, this one dropped it entirely. Click image to … Continue reading
Although the cover says this is a brief history, it is actually pretty in depth. Unlike the Union Pacific histories, which glossed over that company’s nineteenth-century bankruptcy, this one doesn’t skip the financial troubles suffered by the Milwaukee after it … Continue reading
Between 1958 and 1962, Milwaukee’s timetable shrank from 40 to 24 pages. The big loss, of course, was the Olympian Hiawatha, which was cancelled in 1961. The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair led to a huge increase in passenger business for … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1956 timetable, and this one shows a variety of minor cut backs. For example, the number of daily trains between Chicago and Milwaukee was cut from nine to eight; train service from Milwaukee to Madison was … Continue reading
When the Milwaukee Road took over the Chicago-Omaha portion of Union Pacific’s passenger trains from Chicago & North Western, no doubt UP expected Milwaukee to do its best to advertise those trains. It may have even been eager to do … Continue reading
Unlike yesterday’s, this piece includes the entire calendar. However, I’ve only scanned the first page showing January, 1957 (and, in smaller print, December 1956, and February 1956). Click image to download a 1.9-MB PDF of this calendar. The calendar came … Continue reading
This looks like a poster but it is actually the top of a calendar. Unfortunately, someone cut the bottom off before I acquired it. The calendar is presumably for 1953, the year the Super Domes first appeared on the Hiawathas. … Continue reading
This guide covers the route from Chicago to Seattle with brief descriptions of cities and sites along the way as well as lots of small, black-and-white photos. The booklet is undated, but the centerfold map is dated December, 1952. Such … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road added superdomes to the Olympian Hiawatha on January 1, 1953. We’ve previously seen a December, 1952 booklet about those domes. This June, 1953 booklet modifies yesterday’s booklet by adding information about the domes. Click image to download … Continue reading
