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The images on this page are from the
Milwaukee Road Archives, which is housed at the Milwaukee
Public
Library; Gayle Ecklund, archives technician,
researched the collection
and provided these images and other materials to me.
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The back of the above photograph states: "Hiawatha
westbound
at Brookfield, Wis." Mechanical semaphore signals are
visible
near the Hiawatha and in the distance just north of the
Brookfield
depot. These were later replaced by lights.
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Blow-up of the Brookfield depot taken from the above photo
of the Hiawatha. A
cupola is on the roof although poles block the area that
would have held the clock.
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Postcard from 1940
showing the colors of the Hiawatha.
Courtesy of Chuck-man's Photos on Wordpress:
Chicago Nostalgia and Memorabilia.
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This photograph was taken the same day—July 3, 1935—as the
above image of the
Hiawatha. Written on the back is, "Second
Section of Hiawatha
with Eng 6160." Jim Scribbins, in his book, The
Hiawatha Story, wrote about the 6160: "Of the
two Chippewa
engines, the 152 deserves special recognition. As No.
6160 it was converted to oil
and classed F-3-c-s coincident with the inauguration of the
original Hiawatha.
It
was given a modernistic gray, orange, and maroon dressup
with
ornamentation on the running boards, and was used to
substitute (rarely
required) for Nos. 1 and 2 and to handle additional sections
until No.
3 was received."1
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1. The Hiawatha Story, Jim Scribbins, 2007, University of Minnesota Press, Page 230.