Hiawatha (Milwaukee Road trains)

The train was named for the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The Hiawatha used styled streamlined Class A 4-4-2 steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company and was intended to compete directly with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's (Burlington Route) Twin Cities Zephyrs and Chicago and North Western Railway's Twin Cities 400.

In 1947–1948, the Milwaukee Road again re-equipped its major passenger routes with new lightweight equipment.

This train ceased operations on May 22, 1961, and the surplus equipment was sold to Canadian National Railways.

The Chippewa began in May 1937, running north through Milwaukee and Green Bay to Channing, Michigan (later extended to Ontonagon).

Under Amtrak, which assumed control of most intercity passenger rail service in the United States on May 1, 1971, the Hiawatha name survived in two forms.

Amtrak used a variety of names for this service between 1976–1989 before returning to the Hiawatha Service brand, which remains somewhat in use today and continues to use the Milwaukee Road's (now Canadian Pacific and in-name-only subsidiary Soo Line Railroad) route between Chicago and Milwaukee.