The Route of the Hiawatha- The Last Transcontinental Railroad

The Last Transcontinental Railroad

“It was the finest railroad in America.”

Those were the words of many former employees of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific (Milwaukee Road). This trail follows the route of that glorious railroad. The rails are gone ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The End of the Road?

Time Runs Out for “America s Resourceful Railroad”

Never-ending financial problems, speedy new interstate highways and jets killed Milwaukee's passenger service to the Pacific Coast by 1961. Stiff freight competition and corporate mismanagement put an end to railroad service altogether in ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Bumps on the Milwaukee Road

In 1925, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company suffered the largest business failure in the history of the United States up to that time.

The bankruptcy resulted from a combination of problems related to the construction of its ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Rough Roads & Wrecks

High steel trestles, long curved tunnels and steep rocky embankments could be accidents waiting to happen…

But diligent, hard-working Milwaukee Roaders saw that relatively few wrecks shattered the quiet beauty of the Bitterroots. Occasionally destructive wrecks did occur.

Two steam ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Railroad at WAR!

The Milwaukee Road transported tons of war material and thousands of troops during World Wars I and II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

During World War I, the Federal Government seized railroads in the United States including the Milwaukee. ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Milwaukee Road Muscle

It took a lot of mechanical muscle to pull the Milwaukee Road’s long, heavy passenger and freight trains over the rugged Rocky Mountains and tough Bitterroot Range. The Milwaukee Road used a great variety of powerful locomotives to do the ...

The Cumberland Valley Railroad

The first railroad to serve Hagerstown was the Franklin Railroad (F.R.R.). The City of Hagerstown invested $20,000 in this venture. The F.R.R. connected Hagerstown to the Cumberland Valley Railroad (C.V.R.R.) which ran from Chambersburg to Harrisburg. Service began in 1841. ...

The Raube Road Site

The Raube Road Site is one of Wisconsin's few remaining intact Old Military Road segments from the state's territorial period. Located on farmland purchased by Albert and Martha Raube in 1911, this 123-foot-long Military Road segment was part of the ...

The Old Military Road

The Old Military Road From Fort Howard on Green Bay to Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, 1835.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 18 and Lawless Road, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 18.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The National Road

A short distance west of the Springfield City limits at the top of Sugar Grove Hill ended the continuous metaled or paved portion of the National Road.The National Road was, outside of the navigable rivers and harbors, the first great ...