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The Milwaukee Road Class "A" was a class of high-speed, streamlined 4-4-2 "Atlantic" type steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) from 1935 to 1937 to haul the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha express passenger trains. Numbered from No. 1 to No. 4, they were among the last Atlantic type locomotives built in the United States ...
The name Hiawatha is derived from a pre-colonial figure associated with the League of the Iroquois, then located in New York and Pennsylvania. [4] The popularity of Longfellow's poem nevertheless led to the name "Hiawatha" becoming associated with a number of locales and enterprises in the Great Lakes region .
Hiawatha and the Iroquois league. ISBN 0-382-09568-5 ISBN 9780382095689 ISBN 0-382-09757-2 ISBN 9780382097577; Malkus, Alida (1963). There really was a Hiawatha. St. John, Natalie and Mildred Mellor Bateson (1928). Romans of the West: untold but true story of Hiawatha. Taylor, C. J. (2004). Peace walker: the legend of Hiawatha and Tekanawita.
As part of a reshuffling of equipment on the Milwaukee Road in late 1948 the Chippewa received the "Beaver Tail" parlors made famous by the original Hiawatha. Motive power was provided by Class A 4-4-2 steam locomotives between Chicago and Milwaukee, and by the Class F3 Pacifics north. Dieselization came in 1950 with Erie-builts from Fairbanks ...
The Song of Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor), a trilogy of cantatas by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, based on Longfellow's poem; the first part Hiawatha's Wedding Feast is the best known; Little Hiawatha (a.k.a. Hiawatha), a 1937 animated family comedy short film produced by Walt Disney as part of 1937's Silly Symphonies
The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of bird flu and how people can protect their pets. Bird flu has been spreading for years in ...
On July 27, 1950, F7 #102 was on a run between Chicago and Milwaukee on the "North Woods Hiawatha." 73 miles from Milwaukee, the right main crosshead froze in its guide. It immediately overheated, broke, and dropped from the guide while the train was traveling at an estimated speed between 90 and over 100 mph. Air brake lines were severed ...
2024 stats: 67.4% completion percentage, 4,123 yards, ... The 10 carry-on essentials that make for a first-class experience, according to pilots. AOL. The best books of 2024, according to Goodreads.