Limited
Run Fox Valley Models is proud to announce the 1935
Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Project. This classic train
will be faithfully recreated in HO and N Scales to
celebrate the Trains's 75th Anniversary. When
introduced, the train was lead by the sleek and
powerful Class A 4-4-2. Following was America's
first Tap - Cafe car, three Coaches, a Parlor car
and Milwaukee's unique Beaver Tail Observation. All
will be available in State of the Art Injection
molding with numerous add on details. The
locomotive will include a smooth and powerful DCC
ready drive. Cars will feature metal wheelsets,
wire grab irons, knuckle couplers and interiors.
The first set will include Locomotive #1 in it's
original paint scheme, the Tap-Cafe car, Coaches
#4419, 4428, 4439, Parlor Car Minnewawa and
Observation Wenonah. Two additional coaches will
also be available. These initial sets will be
limited, so order yours today. This will be the
only time to get Locomotive #1 in it's original
paint scheme. Ridership quickly grew and a 4th coach was
added on June 15, 1935, and a 5th coach added on Aug 3, 1935. Max train size was 9
cars for a Class A. Drawn by the first newly built scientifically
streamlined steam locomotives, designed for speed
faster than steam locomotive ever attained
heretofore, two Milwaukee Road speed-lined trains
were placed in daily service between Chicago and
St. Paul-Minneapolis on May 29, 1935. The 410 miles
between Chicago and St. Paul are covered in 390
minutes.
Expected Spring
7/30/2010
Set
#1
Add On Coaches
Traversing territory rich in Indian lore, the train
is named the Hiawatha for the great Mohawk Chief
whose legendary endowments, as immortalized by
Longfellow, includes swiftness of foot: "He could
shoot an arrow from him, And run forward with such
fleetness That the arrow fell behind him!"
The oil-burning steam locomotives were especially
designed for this particular service. They have a
steam pressure of 300 lbs.: driving wheels are 7
feet in diameter.
Load weight of the engine is 280,000 lbs. Loaded
weight of tender is 247,500 lbs. Length of engine
and tender 85 ft. Boiler pressure 300 lbs. Water
capacity of tender 13,000 gals. Fuel oil capacity
of tender 4,000 gals. Maximum tractive power 30,700
lbs. The whistle is above the headlight. The bell
is directly inside the grating at the extreme front
end. The "smoke stack" is just back of the
headlight. A smoke elevator lifts the smoke up so
that it is carried off above the cars. The housing
on the extreme front of the engine may be opened
exposing a standard coupler, in the event it is
desirable to couple an engine or car to forward
end.
All the coaches, the parlor cars and the cafe cars
are speed-lined, full size, of welded steel
construction, about one third lighter in weight
than the cars generally in use. The cafe cars have
special buffet features and the luxuriosly
appointed coaches have conveniences new to coach
patrons. To reduce air resistance the contour of
all cars conforms to the locomotive, presenting a
smooth unbroken line from head end to the rear of
the "beaver tail" cars at the end. All of the cars
are air conditioned.
Introduction of the first speed-lined steam train
continued the Milwaukee Road's outstanding record
of contributions to modern railroading. It was the
first line between Chicago and the Twin Cities and
is still the only double tracked route; was the
first to use steam heat and electric lights on
Chicago-Twin Cities trains and the first to operate
all-steel trains between Chicago and the Twin
Cities. It was the first line to adopt roller
bearings for through passenger trains, and has
pioneered in the operation of trains across
mountain ranges by electric power, and it is the
only railroad operating over its own rails all the
way from Chicago to the North Pacific Coast.
Routed via Milwaukee and LaCrosse the new speed
trains operate via the line over which the United
States government has routed its mail trains
between Chicago and the Twin Cities for more than a
half century.
Excerpt from "The Milwaukee Road 1847-1935"