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Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas by John Gruber and Brian Solomon w/ Dust Jacket
The Milwaukee Roads Hiawathas by John Gruber and Brian Solomon Great Passenger Trains
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 2006
160 Pages
Acknowledgments 6
Introduction 8
Chapter 1The Train and its Legend 18
Chapter 2Developing and Styling the Train 88
Chapter 3 Locomotives: A Different Approach by Brian Solomon 100
Chapter 4Passenger Cars: A Key to High Speed by Brian Solomon 122
Chapter 5Workers Remember the Hiawatha Days 138
EpilogueThe Friends of the 261 152
Sources 158
Index 159
From two of today's most respected railway authors comes this evocatively illustrated history of The Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas, passenger trains renowned for their unparalleled speeds between Chicago and the Twin Cities, and admired for their styling and appointments.
Long appreciated for its broad passenger network, The Milwaukee Road stepped up those services in 1935 by unveiling a highspeed Chicago-Twin Cities service. It was the first of what would eventually become several passenger trains running under the Hiawatha moniker, a name that the company copped from poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Railway author and photographer John Gruber, along with colleague Brian Solomon, examine the circumstances leading up to the development and inauguration of Hiawatha services, the trains' revered A-class Atlantic and F7 Hudson steam power, the roles played by such famed industrial designers as Otto Kuhler and Brooks Stevens, and the expansion of services through much of the Midwest and eventually to the Pacific Northwest with the renaming of the Olympian.
Interweaving their story with rich, first-person accounts from key players and employees in the trenches, Gruber and Solomon also look at the nuts and bolts of Hiawatha motive power and rolling stock, Milwaukee's decision to adhere to steam power well into the diesel era, and perhaps most significantly, the people who worked the trains and keep this transportation icon's memory alive today via the Minneapolis-based Friends of the 261.
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