The Route of the Hiawatha- Olympian Luxury

Driving across the country today, fueling up at fast food outlets, it is hard to imagine that travel was once much more luxurious. The Milwaukee Road's Olympian and Columbian passenger trains carried elegant dining cars the entire distance from Chicago ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Olympian Hiawatha

On June 29, 1947 the pride of the Milwaukee Road was introduced-- an all new streamlined train called the “Olympian Hiawatha”.

The name “Hiawatha” originated with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Song of Hiawatha” written in the mid-1800s. The Milwaukee Road chose ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Mighty Quills

The Unknown Locomotive

Called the “unkown” locomotive by some rail enthusiasts, few people now recognize the heavyweight of the Milwaukee’s Rocky Mountain Division, the Baldwin-Westinghouse EP-3.

Between 1919 and 1955, these big motors pulled passenger trains over the rugged Rocky, Belt and ...

Mountain Streams in the Camp

Hemlock Run, the small artificial stream that flowed through the cabin area was created by a small diversion dam. This dam was built upstream from the cabin area across Laurel Prong. Laurel Prong and Mill Prong join just below the ...

The Pine Community Center Historic District

The Pine Community Center Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic buildings of the district are the LDS (Latter Day Saints/Mormon) Ward Chapel, built in 1915-1916, the Cultural Hall, completed in 1931, and the ...

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 Route of the Hiawatha- Mountains of Copper?

Depending on who you talk to, the hills around you contain either rich copper deposits or a lot of hot air....

Between 1889 and 1922, miners explored a number of promising mining properties near Adair. They encountered ore containing copper, sprinkled ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- This Place Had a Name?

During the 1910 fires, fire fighters hopping off a train here at two in the morning wondered, “why anyone bothered to give this spot a name.”

In fact, Adair started out several years earlier as a boisterous railroad construction tent camp ...

St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral

Begun in 1870-1871, Completed 1882-1902.

Architect Richard Upjohn, founder of A.I.A.

Utah's oldest non-Mormon church

in continuous use.

Marker is on 100 South west of W 300 E, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Prime Minister’s Cabin

Prime Minister Ramsey McDonald of England was a frequent guest of President Hoover. The “Press” of that day popularly envisioned these two peace loving leaders sitting on a log in the Camp Hoover area scrapping the navies of the world. ...