Hiawatha (train)
Hiawatha was the name of several luxurious passenger trains of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, also known as the Milwaukee Road. The train got its name from the famous song " The Song of Hiawatha " by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in turn, refers to an Indian named Hiawatha. By 1947 there were five train routes that carried the name: the " Twin Cities Hiawatha " between Chicago and the Twin Cities Minneapolis / St. Paul, the " North Woods Hiawatha " between Chicago and Minocqua, Wisconsin on New Lisbon, the " Midwest Hiawatha " as Flügelzug between Chicago and Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Omaha in Nebraska, the " Chippewa Hiawatha " between Chicago and northern Ontonagon on the Peninsula of Michigan as well as the " Olympian Hiawatha " as a trans-continental showpiece between Chicago and Seattle / Tacoma.
Coloring
Originally the bodies of the trains in orange root, window bands were consistently maroon and the chassis painted ocher brown. Below the light gray roof was a narrow strip, wearing the gold-colored lettering "The Milwaukee Road ". The early fifties, the schema has been simplified, the roofs were now black, the upper narrow trim fell off and the lettering was now brown with an orange background. The photo shows this model, as was common around 1950. As the Milwaukee Road in 1955, the "City of ... " trains of the Union Pacific (UP ) operating between Chicago and Omaha and for some car repainted in the yellow hue of the UP, the management quickly decided all vehicles intended for passenger switch to the befundene as easy-care " Armour Yellow". This scheme used the Milwaukee Road until the end of passenger transport.
Twin Cities Hiawatha
The Twin Cities Hiawatha was the original Hiawatha; it started its operation between Chicago and the Twin Cities on May 29, 1935. trains were the preloaded steam locomotives of class A, which were designed by Otto Kuhler and built by Alco. You should compete directly with the Twin Cities Zephyr the Burlington Route and the Twin Cities 400 of the Chicago and North Western Railway.
As of January 21, 1939, a second pair of trains was used and as a result both trains were run as Morning Hiawatha and Afternoon Hiawatha, although the Twin Cities Hiawatha brand was still being used. 1947-1948 converted the Milwaukee Road Twin Cities Hiawatha from the as part of their main train connections with new rolling stock. The pairs of trains Morning Hiawatha (trains 5 and 6) and Afternoon Hiawatha (trains 3 and 2 ) ran between Chicago and Minneapolis until January 23, 1970, when the latter train was discontinued. The Morning Hiawatha lived to the eve of Amtrak 's founding on April 30, 1971.
Regional connections
The North Woods Hiawatha drove off in June 1936 with older cars on the branching of the railway Chicago - Minnesota branch of New Lisbon (Wisconsin ) north to Wausau, Minocqua and the near Star Lake in the Northern Highland Lake District. For use were streamlined fairing Ten Wheeler. Beginning in 1939, the train was extended in 1943 except in the summer months and during the holidays on the main route to and from Chicago. From 1951, the operation was limited to and from Chicago on the weekends. 1956, the name Hiawatha was abandoned for the route and the operation eventually discontinued in 1970. 91
From 11 December 1940, the Hiawatha cars of the first generation from 1935 together with the streamlined Atlantic locomotives on the route of the Midwest Hiawatha between Chicago and Omaha and Sioux City were used. After the first schedule the 488 miles (785 km) from Chicago to Omaha in 480 minutes, departed. 1948, the compound was equipped with new rolling stock and soon dieselised it. The last ride of the Midwest Hiawatha was held on 29 October 1955. The following day the Milwaukee Road took over the operation of the Cities and the Challenger trains of the Union Pacific. The Challenger trains appeared here in the timetable as a Challenger - Midwest Hiawatha. In April 1956, the name has already been abandoned. :91 -92
The Chippewa Hiawatha by Ontonagon was run as a third regional Hiawatha train route in the timetable under the numbers 14 and 21. In 1948 he was re- equipped with 1938 procured for the Twin Cities Hiawatha Beavertail saloon car. The Verdieselung of the train in 1950, however, the name Hiawatha and 1960, the entire route of the train was abandoned in 1957. 92
Olympian Hiawatha
1947 Olympian Hiawatha was introduced as Langstreckenzug in the Pacific Northwest. The new sleeping cars and Skytop pulpit car with sleeping compartments were not delivered until the end of 1948 and beginning of 1949, so that the train initially wrong with older heavyweight cars from Pullman. The design came from the hands of the famous industrial designer Brooks Stevens of Milwaukee. The six pulpit wagons used differed from those for the Twin Cities Hiawatha in that they had eight berths instead of sitting in the back area with less windows were equipped for it in the viewing platform with more glass surfaces. The train was set on May 22, 1961, the lookout and pulpit car soon sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Amtrak
Following the acquisition of passenger transport by Amtrak in 1971 there was until 1979 a North Coast Hiawatha between Chicago and Seattle. This connection is running on the Empire Builder today.
Amtrak serves with the Hiawatha service the 138 km long corridor of Lake Michigan between Chicago and Milwaukee in Wisconsin. From Monday to Saturday ride seven pairs of trains, on Sunday there are six. 2009 saw Amtrak for an extension and improvement of the offer before new Talgo train sets. The project was the new Republican governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, stopped.