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Hiawatha - Nothing Faster On Rails

This is it! After a long wait, it is finally arriving!! Yes, I know a lot of you never thought we'd get it done, but here it is!
Our second volume: Hiawatha - Nothing Faster On Rails is nearing release.
Our second volume covering the streamlined, lightweight passenger cars and trains of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, “The Milwaukee Road,” and the locomotives that pulled them from the “ribbed” era on the railroad of 1936-1942.

For a very limited time you can reserve your copy of this $99.95 book and get free domestic shipping, (a $10 value) for only $84.95! That’s a $25 savings for pre-ordering! This is a very limited press run, so do not delay, order yours today for late 2014 delivery. This special offer ends December 1, 2014.

Hiawatha – Nothing Faster On Rails is a deluxe, hard cover, spiral bound book, detailing the ongoing development of lightweight passenger car construction by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad.


• More than 250 pages, 11" x 14".
• Over 347 B&W and 20 Color photographs, most never before published.
• Over 105 drawings illustrating: The development of the Milwaukee Road's second, third and fourth lightweight - high speed trains: the Hiawatha of 1936, 1939, and 1942.
• HO scale plans and 26 full color side elevations of all cars produced by the Milwaukee Shops 1936-1942, with later modified versions.
• Also included are the Hiawatha’s locomotives in photographs and HO scale plans.
• A photographic pictorial of the Hiawatha’s operation.
• Later modifications and assignments of the 1936-1942 passenger equipment.
• Rosters and typical train consists.

8 pages Introduction and Table of Contents
4 pages Chapter 1: Speed, Style and Horizontal Ribs
40 pages Chapter 2: The 1937 Hiawatha
32 pages Chapter 3: The 1939 Hiawatha
28 pages Chapter 4: The 1942 Hiawatha
16 pages Chapter 5: The Milwaukee Road in Color
42 pages Chapter 6: Modified Equipment.
30 pages Chapter 7: Hiawatha Pictorial
26 pages Chapter 8: Hiawatha Locomotives
19 pages Chapter 9: Converted Equipment
4 pages Rosters, Dispositions, Typical Consists
2 pages Chronology.
5 pages Truck Drawings
256 total pages

Order online at: http://www.milwaukeeshops.org/
Also available through the MRHA Company Store: www.MRHA.com

Justin Nelson
Milwaukee Shops Inc.

Attached is the flyer for Volume 2 with a small sample of the layout and text.