Old Milwaukee 15, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's Olympian Flyer, to Seattle and Tacoma, pulled out of Chicago Union Station at 11:15 one night last week just as it has been doing for 27 years. Behind its locomotive and tender were eleven cars: a baggage and a mail car, two coaches, five Pullmans, a diner and an observation car. To Milwaukee by 1 a. m., to St. Paul by breakfast time it flashed on its 58 hour and 45 minute schedule to Tacoma. By bedtime next night, with about 160 passengers aboard,...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
