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In 1935, the Milwaukee Road introduced the original Hiawatha between Chicago and the Twin Cities to great acclaim. The new trains covered the 420 miles (680 km) in 7 hours. Their equipment included the popular "Tip-Top-Tavern" and the distinctive "Beaver Tail" lounge observation car
The Beaver Tails were a fleet of streamlined parlor-observation passenger cars built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") between 1934–1938. They served as the observation cars on the famous Hiawatha trains from 1935 until 1948, when they were displaced by the new Skytop Lounge. The cars' name was ...
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), better known as the Milwaukee Road (reporting mark MILW), was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwest and Northwest of the United States from 1847 until 1986.
The Super Dome was a Dome car built by Pullman-Standard for the Milwaukee Road in 1952. The ten Super Domes were the first full-length dome cars in revenue service, first operating on the Olympian Hiawatha and Twin Cities Hiawatha in late 1952. Although a mixed blessing in passenger use, the cars garnered much publicity for the Milwaukee Road ...
In 1952 the Milwaukee Road took delivery of ten "Super Dome" cars. Six were assigned to the Olympian Hiawatha and two each to the Morning and Afternoon Hiawathas . Both trains had coaches, a Super Dome lounge car, dining car (sometimes a Tip Top Tap car), Valley -series parlor cars, and the distinctive Skytop lounge observation car.
The Milwaukee Road ordered cars for two new all-steel luxury trains to run Chicago–Milwaukee–St. Paul–Seattle–Tacoma. The two new trains debuted on May 28, 1911. They were the first all-steel trains to operate in the Pacific Northwest. The Milwaukee Road named the two trains the Olympian and Columbian.
Milwaukee Road class A No. 1 pauses near Milwaukee in 1951. Designed for a 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 hour schedule between Chicago and St. Paul, the class proved capable of handling nine cars on a 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 hour schedule. The only change during their service life was the addition of a Mars Light beneath the winged emblem on the nose in 1947.
The group provided several passenger cars for 4449's excursion from Portland, Oregon, to Owosso, Michigan, that started on July 3, 2009, as well as TrainFestival 2009. After being away for three months, the 4449 arrived in Portland on October 20, 2009. Milwaukee Road 261 operating an excursion to St. Paul, MN on May 12, 2013.