Kato N 106089 Olympian Hiawatha 9-Car Passenger Set - Post-1955 Version - Ready to Run - Milwaukee Road (Armour Yellow, gray, red) RECSES_2025-5-9_CUR_555 Smooth 300-degree speed control throttle

Smooth 300-degree speed control throttle

in the version for service between Paris and Munich

- Factory-installed grab irons on hood and cab

There are many separately applied control wheel imitations in the cabs

Externally one could not detect any difference

Kato N 106089 Olympian Hiawatha 9-Car Passenger Set - Post-1955 Version - Ready to Run - Milwaukee Road (Armour Yellow, gray, red) RECSES_2025-5-9_CUR_555 Smooth 300-degree speed control throttleOn June 29, 1947, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul and Pacific Railroad's (Milwaukee Road) inaugurated its streamlined flagship "Olympian Hiawatha" on a 43 hour, 30 minute schedule between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. The Olympian Hiawatha ran through scenic Idaho, Montana's Bitterroot Mountains and Washington's Cascade range. This was advertised as being a "speedliner." The railroad contracted industrial designer Brooks Stevens to design