The Haunts of Shadows, Great Rivers, and Hiawatha
Ye who love the haunts of Nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches, And the rain-shower and the snow-storm, And the rushing of great rivers Through their palisades of pine-trees, And the thunder in the mountains, Whose innumerable echoes Flap like eagles in their eyries;- Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha! From: "Hiawatha," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 'Fleet of foot was Hiawatha.' America's Resourceful Railroad had a stable of Hiawathas that ran through the Midwest; in the shadows of the forest, out across the rushing rivers. In late June of 1947, the Milwaukee added a transcontinental Hiawatha to its passenger streamliners: The Olympian Hi'. Initially pulled by iconic FM diesels, later by Little Joe electrics on the mountain passes of Montana, and then sets of streamlined boxcabs and rebuilt Bi-Polars. Armour yellow E units marked...