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It’s 1935… the age of Art Deco and streamlining. Almost hard
to believe this is a steam engine leading the Milwaukee Road
“Hiawatha” out of Chicago, heading for Minneapolis.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/652655/
There exists… somewhere I cannot find right now… a picture that was universally acclaimed by railfans as the ‘Luckiest Ever’ picture of two Hiawathas meeting (Passing on separate tracks) at a country road crossing in central Wisconsin at 90 mph. The trains just happened to meet at this crossing and the lucky photographer just happened to be at the right place at the right time to capture the nose of both trains framed by the crossbuck signs.
The Milwaukee Road and the Chicago & Northwestern, although taking different routes to Minneapolis, cooperated so that both trains adhered to a 400-minute schedule between Chicago and the Twin Cities. As a result, the C&NW named their streamliner “The 400′