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The Hiawatha (also called the Hiawatha Service), is an 86-mile (138 km) train route operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Twelve to fourteen trains (six round-trips, five on Sunday) run daily between Chicago and Milwaukee, [2] making intermediate stops in Glenview, Illinois; Sturtevant, Wisconsin; and Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport.
The Twin Cities Hiawatha was the original Hiawatha, beginning service between Chicago and the Twin Cities on May 29, 1935.The Hiawatha used styled streamlined Class A 4-4-2 steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company and was intended to compete directly with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's (Burlington Route) Twin Cities Zephyrs and Chicago and North Western Railway ...
The train's name was an amalgam of North Coast Limited and Olympian Hiawatha. Deferred maintenance forced the Milwaukee Road to abandon its electrification in 1974. Facing bankruptcy, the Milwaukee Road abandoned its "Puget Sound extension" in 1980, eliminating much of the route of the Olympian Hiawatha. Several sections of the route are now ...
Cannonball (Milwaukee Road train) Challenger (train) Chippewa-Hiawatha; City of Denver (train) City of Los Angeles (train) City of Portland (train) City of San Francisco (train) Columbian (Milwaukee Road train) Copper Country Limited
The Twin Cities Hiawatha, often just Hiawatha, was a named passenger train operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as the Milwaukee Road), and traveled from Chicago to the Twin Cities. The original train takes its name from the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. There are a number ...
A Hiawatha train at the station in October 2010. Groundbreaking for the facility occurred on June 28, 2004. [16] Included in the $6.8 million project budget were funds for the construction of the station and track improvements to reduce delays between Milwaukee and Chicago. [16]
Hiawatha is an Amtrak train that connects Chicago, Illinois with Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The trains takes 3 stops on route and trip takes 1 hour 29 minutes. Entire route length is 138 km.
[8] [9] [10] On the four days of the week that the North Coast Hiawatha did not run, its route between Chicago and Minneapolis was served by a train on the same schedule. This Chicago–Minneapolis train was initially named Hiawatha, [11] then Twin Cities Hiawatha (starting January 16, 1972), [12] and, finally, Hiawatha again (starting October ...