Hiawatha
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In the Shadow of the Hiawatha: CP Rail’s Former Milwaukee Road at Wyocena.
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“Hey, I know this place” I remarked upon arrival at Salisbury Road near Wyocena, Wisconsin. “I caught Milwaukee Road 261 here back in 2004.”
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Amtrak Veterans Cabbage: Panned at Night.
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The other evening at the modern Amtrak station in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, Trains Magazine’s Brian Schmidt and I set up to photograph Hiawatha Corridor trains during their station stops.
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Cabbage Pan on the old Milwaukee Road
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In the mid-1930s, Milwaukee Road introduced its high-speed streamlined Hiawatha on its Chicago-Milwaukee-Twin Cities route where elegant purpose-built shrouded 4-4-2 and 4-6-4 Alco steam locomotives whisked trains along in excess of 110mph. Today, Amtrak’s Hiawathas have Siemens Chargers on the Milwaukee end,…
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Skyline View with a Skytop Lounge.
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As Seen from A Chicago Rooftop. It was June 22, 2004, when Marshall Beecher organized a visit for the two of us to photograph from a rooftop opposite A2 tower in Chicago. This busy plant is where the former Chicago…
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Wisconsin & Southern on the old Milwaukee Road at Sun Prairie
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Here the Atlantics Once Rolled. Dick Gruber did the driving, John offered historical context, while I made notes. We all made photos. I was working with three cameras; my EOS-3 film camera loaded with Provia 100F slide film, my…