Olympian Hiawatha

[CMStPnP]

Just found this on youtube, pretty neat video of the Hiawatha out West in the 1950's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pXySW5owCk

[schlimm]

Good video, great train!!

[daveklepper]

For any who think that watching utube videos is wasting time (and internet connection money?) this is a must.  It is all under wire, Little Joes, Box Cabs, and Bi-Polars, and fantastic scenery.   I did not know that the OH route was so comparable to the CZ.   I really regret I never rode OH.   It is truly is a USA "I cannot go back to."   Fantastic.    The less than 100% professional technical quality is both excusable and not a problem fo me.

[BaltACD]

Great Stuff!

[Firelock76]

Great little time capsule!  You know, the only thing missing is projector noise in the background.

Remember projectors?

[NorthWest]

Beautiful! I especially appreciate the shots of Seattle's Union Station. The track area is now basements and an underground parking garage, and only Link stops there now. So every view of the former glory is very important!

[dakotafred]

NorthWest

Beautiful! I especially appreciate the shots of Seattle's Union Station. The track area is now basements and an underground parking garage, and only Link stops there now. So every view of the former glory is very important!

 

Right you are. I've always felt they salvaged -- for Amtrak, Cascades, etc. -- the wrong station. Union, of course, got the cosmetic restoration, and is simply beautiful.

 

By chance, I got off the train (one of UP/BN's pool trains) at Union on the last day of the station's operation, sometime in February, I believe, of 1971, or a couple of months before Amtrak Day. Next day, everything was to move over to King Street.

[oltmannd]

BaltACD

Great Stuff!

+1

[Deggesty]

Indeed, Great Stuff!

[erikem]

Nice! Thanks for posting the link.

Based on the Joe's operating in the Rocky Mountains and Bipolars in the Cascades, the film must have been done in the early 1950's. I rode the OH in 1957, but was too young to have well more than fleeting memories of the trip.

- Erik

[CMStPnP]

schlimm

Good video, great train!!

I found another cool website setup by a Milwaukee Road Engineer and he posted a lot of his personal photographs with comments on Milwaukee Road Operations between Chicago and Twin Cities, it is pretty massive.     Will post it in the General Discussion Forum after I fly back to Illinois tonight,    It's all in the time period 1973 to 1986 and mostly Diesel (of course he is a 261 fan as well)

[schlimm]

Looking forward to it.  Although C&NW will always be #1, I've always had a fondness for the CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC.

[CMStPnP]

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