Photos & Videos Photo of the Day Milwaukee Road’s ‘Olympian Hiawatha’ at Mayfair Tower

Milwaukee Road’s ‘Olympian Hiawatha’ at Mayfair Tower

By Angela Cotey | March 14, 2023

Passenger train crossing over multiple diamonds.

The Skytop sleeper-observation car of Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha bangs across the C&NW diamonds in a 1952 view from the tower at Mayfair, on the north side of Chicago. W. A. Akin Jr. photo

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