MILWAUKEE SHOPS INC.
PO BOX 210972
MILWAUKEE, WI 53221
Our next publication will be:
Hiawatha
NOTHING
FASTER ON RAILS
C.M.St.P.&P. RR. Passenger Equipment and
Locomotives
Volume II
1936 - 1942
Hiawatha - NOTHING
FASTER ON RAILS a deluxe, hard cover, spiral bound book,
detailing
the ongoing development of lightweight passenger car construction by
the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad.
More than 200, 11" x 14" pages with over 220 photographs, most never
before
published, and over 60 drawings illustrating:
- The development of the Milwaukee Road's 2nd & 3rd lightweight
-
high
speed trains: THE HIAWATHA's of 1936 and 1939.
- HO scale plans and full color side elevations of all cars
produced by
the
Milwaukee Shops 1936 - 1942, with later modified versions.
- Also included are THE HIAWATHA'S locomotives.
- A photographic pictorial of THE HIAWATHA'S operation.
- Later modifications and assignments of the 1936 - 1942
passenger
equipment built by the Shops.
Plus foldouts containing:
- Original company floor plans and drawings of equipment.
- Equipment assignments.
- System map showing routes where the original lightweight
equipment was
used.
Additional volumes are planned which will document the
evolution
of The Hiawatha into a fleet of trains serving the Mid West and the
West
Coast.
A Complete accounting of the Milwaukee Road's "Standard" passenger
equipment is also planned.
"Hiawatha -
NOTHING FASTER ON RAILS" is NOT
YET available.
Please monitor this site for announcements regading
planned
publication date.
Color 22" x 34" poster of the 1934 passenger cars and The Hiawatha
side
elevations are still available:
at $10.00 each plus $3.00 Shipping.
MILWAUKEE SHOPS INC.
P.O. BOX 210972
MILWAUKEE WI 53221
(Wisconsin Residents must include 5.5% State & County Tax).
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4 pages Chapter 1.
75 pages Chapter 2 Original equipment.
34 pages Chapter 3 “Hiawatha Pictorial”.
28 pages Chapter 4 Locomotives.
6 pages Chapter 5 Color Pictorial.
40 pages (est.) Chapter 6 Modified Equipment.
8 pages (est.) Colored plans.
4 pages (est.) Painting Information.
4 pages (est.) Rosters, Consists, Dispositions.
2 pages (est.) Chronology.
TBD pages (est.) Index.
TBD pages of Company floor plan fold outs. S scale 11 x 28.
209 total so far!!
Preview pages from this Volume: