Eight years ago, I moved my primary residence to Maine. This Hiawatha nose emblem was given to me as a gift from one of my employees. Yesterday, after going through some unopened boxes in the barn, I found this hidden treasure from the past. I am going to have it framed and it will go in a prominent place in my train room.
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Awesome! That is a treasure!
WOW!
there are a few guys on this forum who will be drooling!
(e.g. scale rail, southwest hiawatha)
If you don't have room on the wall, I have tons of room. Great find. Don
As a Milwaukee Road fan you're killing me!
Is it real or was made for you?
some of the real ones had the car number stamped on the back side of the logo for what car it was to go onto.
Here's a Hiawatha ad inside a Super Dome on the Napa Valley Wine Train
That's beautiful, It's going to look awesome in your gorgeous train room
Alex
Brian - That is fabulous! It is exactly like the one I saw in the Milwaukee Road full dome car that we rode in from Chicago to Quincy earlier this year. The Milwaukee Road was a very classy railroad and had great logos and unique passenger cars.
This is right up there with your El Capitan drumhead for railroad memorabilia.
Perfect addition to the train room of a man that loves passenger trains.
Art
Brian what a WONDERFUL TREASURE to reunite with!!!! C O N G R A T 'S!!!!!!
Hope once you have it mounted in your place of HONOR you will share some pictures with us.
Mike:
The number forged into the back of my emblem is "7723". Thanks for the info.
One of these days, it will be good to visit my Chicago area buddies, I guess the last time I saw you was at a Dupage meet.
That is sweet!
Love the Hiawatha.
You are very priviledged to have that Hiawatha emblem! The closest I have to it is a photo of the one on the skytop observation car that was on display at the Milwaukee Museum of Art a few years back. As a fervid Milwaukee Road fan, that would be a treasure for me. I am old enough to have ridden on the passenger trains of the Milw. Rd when I was a young boy. As Chugman said, "classy railroad with great logos and cars, the Hiawatha emblem is just one of many pieces of the Milw. Rd. that made that railroad really stand out from the rest of the crowd. Enjoy it! Paul
Wow, thats cool. What a find!
Yes! Now that's what I call a collectible.
Mike Slater turned me on to this. So a big thanks go to Mike. The emblem # is 7723 and after some research, this car is alive and well at a museum in Daytona Beach. It is a Sky-Top which is one of my favorite styles of passenger cars (I have two, one in orange/red and one in yellow/grey.
This tuned out better than I could have possibly imagined.
Brian - Here are a couple pictures of the Milwaukee Road full dome car that we recently rode in. The Hiawatha symbol in it is a brushed nickel or chrome instead of the brass color of yours. I like yours better, it has a richer look to it in my opinion.
You have a wonderful treasure and I bet it is going to look really great on your wall.
The Hiawatha emblem is probably the best looking of all Railroad symbols.
Unlike the PA, UP, NYC. ect, ect it is a piece of Modernism art that is going to to a appeal to a very wide variety of people.
Have you given any thought to the type of framing you are going to use? A black and white photo of a train station behind it would bring it out and add some subject depth to it.
In any case it is a beautiful thing and I'm sure it will look great no matter what you do with it.
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