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The Hiawatha story /
Loved for their radically new, streamlined look, the Hiawathas Art Deco engines were a hallmark of American industrial design. For Midwestern passengers from Chicago to Aberdeen, the Hiawatha represented speed, comfort, and luxury. From 1935 to 1970 it carried countless passengers and even more memo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. |
| Colección: | Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Speed
- Enter the Hi : "speedlined" became adjective
- From tip top tap to beaver tail : the train that netted $700,000 in a year
- Ribbed cars and 4-6-4's : what was unprecedented became astounding
- 100 hits 100 : a few figures for skeptics to mull over
- Diesels, war, and S.R.O. : an all-out war, all-out Hi's
- Famous 15 : the locomotive that sold the steam-powered Milwaukee Road on diesels
- Skytops and super domes : more diesels and enough new cars to make a 2 1/2-mile Hi
- Yellow paint and red ink : for President Crippen, "an unhappy task"
- North woods Hiawatha : the Hi that was the fisherman's friend
- Olympian Hiawatha : to fill a void, " a perfect train"
- Chippewa-Hiawatha : where aging Pacifics dimmed their headlights for deer.