longleys@peoplepc.com

rwitas@sbcglobal.net

paul@chessin.com

savawalla@charter.net

brooks3602@charter.net

stiofainin@hotmail.com

These (Hiawathas) are fantastic locomotives. Are there any recorded and verified highest speeds?

Regards

John Duckworth

I thank you for photographing parts of East Harlem as I remember them. I was born in East Harlem in 1950. I recently went back this week with my 3 other sisters to tour the places where we grew up. It was extremely hot and I did not photograph everything that I intended to. I was also amazed at all the changes that have taken place in Harlem. I thank you for letting me see part of my childhood once again (St. Cecilia's, 108th & Madison as well as 109th & Madison, Central Park). Great Job!

Olga Garcia-Mikhail

OlgaGM@aol.com

Last night we pulled Ruth’s recipe for peach cobbler off of Coffeedrome and Daniel made it. It was the best baked good that has ever come out of my oven, without a doubt. I think I ate half the pan.

Rebecca

7.26.2006

I am working on a project of streamliners and would like to include a piece of color artwork of the Hiawatha. Where can I find a selection of images (no larger than 5x8) to choose from to purchase?

Dave Wilbur

Hi !

Have any HO models ever been produced of the Hiawatha A-Class or the Hudsons ?

Mike Foster
(England, United Kingdom.)

I just planted a Greenspire Linden in my front yard.

Thank you so very much for all the pictures and comments about your trees.

I love your website!!!

Thank you,
Nicole Jacobs
Lansing, Kansas

Hi, I came across your website this morning. I have been to the old cemetery many times and have noticed the tombstone in the tree but I will never look at it the same way now that I have read your poem. Just lovely.

From one mother to another

WMckel3248@aol.com

Hello,

We love your pictures of your trees -- congratulations on a beautiful job and thank you for sharing! Not only are you beautifying your home and helping save some energy on cooling with the trees, you are also enhancing the value of your home.

We have just built a home on ten acres - some woods - but the home is in the middle of a meadow and we want to add a few trees. Your site was VERY HELPFUL. We thank you for taking the time to put this together!

Sincerely,

The Coffman family
Mechanicsburg, Pa.

coffmanrwc@comcast.net

Just dropping a note from Oregon to tell Julie Shaver that we really enjoyed her tree photography. What a wonderful way to see trees year around and from young to mature. Thanks Julie! You do some fine photography and we just wanted to say that your work of art was enjoyed. I came across your photography when researching a Red Sunset Maple because we just purchased one for our yard. What a wonderful discovery when we ran across Coffeedrome.com

Celebrating the first day of Spring,

Lori Bauer

Your tree grrower's webpage . . . is magnificent! i just planted an Aristocrat Pear (my first tree, in front of my first house, so very exciting...and a bit daunting!), and was searching around for musings on and photographs of it in all its stages. i was so pleased to find your webpage, what a wealth of information and beauty. thank you so much for sharing all that information and inspiration. :-)

best,
catherine

I Planted Trees!

I live in Idaho Falls ID Zone 4, or 3ish.  And I also planted a Green Spire Linden 4 weeks ago.  An Autumn Flame Maple last Sunday, and a Autumn Blaze Maple today. I found your site a week ago and loved seeing your collection.  Man it was really cool.  I hope that my trees are as prosperous.  I figured you would understand my enthusiasm for these trees.  Great ideas and good luck with trees.  Let me know of any care tips, and cool ideas.  Brandon, Suzanne, and little Lillie. 

bhobbs@cableone.net

Thank you for a wonderful presentation about trees (The Arboretum at Coffeedrome). You write nicely, and sharing your feelings was something I appreciate.
 
Kind Regards,
 
Ron

rcn180@ameritech.net

Hello!

Great to see your website! Your baby (Penny's Hiawatha coach) is a 1947 Milwaukee Road coach probably built for the Olympian Hiawatha, and later upgraded for the joint UP/Milwaukee Cities trains in 1955. You can tell it is a 1947 coach because of the darker wood that is right through the window band area inside. Coaches built after 1948 had blonde maple in the interiors. Do you have a number on the coach? I bet it is in the 600 series, renumbered from the 500 series in the 1950's. The 400-500 series coaches were upgraded with leg rests for the joint Union Pacific/Milwaukee Cities trains and repainted into Union Pacific colors and numbered in the 600's.

It was built right at the Milwaukee Road shops (not Budd) in Milwaukee by the shopmen who built all the Hiawatha equipment from 1934-1948. Other Hiawatha equipment came from Pullman Standard such as sleepers and Super Domes. It is made of Cor-ten steel, and has Karl Nystrom's wheels underneath. He was a famous Swedish designer of the Milwaukee's wheelsets and trucks underneath the passenger cars. Betcha it has Waukesha air conditioning or the Butane version they also had on some cars?

I know about Hiawatha cars too because I painted a (REAL) 1942 Hiawatha car. That car has the same windows as yours- double paned Pittsburgh Plate Glass windows.

Are you needing any information on paint schemes for painting her back to original orange and maroon?

Hope this helps you out!

James Sucha
Denver, CO



Wow!

I just wanted to tell you how beautiful your tree scrapbook was.  What a lovely and inspiring site.
 
Genevieve

Help: A Coffeedrome visitor wrote (and the letter has been lost), but the question was whether there was a Hiawatha preserved somewhere. Does anybody know? Please write to Coffeedrome.


And here's the answer !


Preservation of the Hiawatha.

The only big restoration of a part of the Hiawatha are actual various cars that are a part of the steam locomotive #261 in Minneapolis. It is the only Milwaukee steamer active still and pulls various cars that are painted up in Milwaukee paint schemes. It was not a Hiawatha locomotive, but there are 6 cars really from the Milwaukee Road- all saw Hiawatha service.

Skytop lounge observation Cedar Rapids
Sleeper Minnesota River
Storage car 1959 which was originally an Otto Kuhler styled 1938 Beavertail Observation car from the Afternoon Hiawatha.
Super Dome #53. Sold to Canadian National in 1964, used by various owners and Amtrak, then sold to Friends of the 261.

Other cars from the Hiawatha are in Mexico, and owned by various owners across the US. They include Hiawatha cars from the years 1935-1952.

A great site for Hiawatha cars is this site!

http://www.trainweb.org/hiawatha/passenger.html

The 261 site is http://www.261.com/

Enjoy!

James Sucha
Milwaukee Road historian

Hello,,,just wanted to say,,,I  found your site by accident,,,and I am impressed,,,,,,,,,,,,its lovely!
Gotta go,        gotta     get back to the *diner,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,thanks
                                                  Laurie in  Boring, Oregon

Kencfishboy@aol.com

Great Site!

Just wanted to let you know that your site is terrific! It's very difficult to find a place where you can see how trees progress over a few years. Now we have some idea of what to expect. Very useful and helpful. Thanks!

Bill Toohey
Independence, Iowa

Howdy!

I was searching the Web and found your NYC/MILW Web pages -- tres neato! I would like to know if you have a shot of 34 Nassau Street in NYC from any time before the Great Depression. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern's NY offices were located at that address for a good many years.

RSVP
John Phillips
Seattle

whstlpnk@ix.netcom.com

Thanks for your efforts on your (October Glory) web page(s).  They are lovely.

Thanks for a Great Site

Julie

Thanks for one of the most beautiful sites we have ever seen.  We have been planning the yard at our new house and are ready to sign a landscaping contract for about 25 new trees.  We wanted to see how the October Glory Maples would look, your site is incredible.

We found your documentation through the years - and day by day - remarkable.  Reminds me of my wife's taking pictures every day when we first moved to Connecticut and found out how spectacular a New England fall could be.

Blan and Judy Godfrey

blantongodfrey@nc.rr.com

excellent web site and beautiful photos

Just wanted to drop you a note to tell you about how much I enjoyed your website. I accessed it from Wunderground. Very informative and entertaining. Great photography.

My parents live in Upstate NY and are also getting clobbered with snow. Unfortunately no snow here.

Tim

timmcphoto@sbcglobal.net

Hello,

I love your web site, however I am looking for a few photos of the Back woods version (of the Hiawatha). Do you know where I can find them?

Thanks,

Roland

Dear Sirs,
 
Thanks for your good information about Otto Kuhler and his fabulous train!
 
I am operating a narrow gauge museum in Germany (www.museum-asbach.de), and we have a live-steam public railway in 5" (127 mm) too. From time to time I get tired creeping through the landscape with narrow gauge locos.
 
I am a wheelchair-driver since I had an accident on one German Steamloco - so driving is my business . . .
 
I know the Hiawatha-Lokomotives since the 1970, and I want to build the Atlantic-Type in 5" - live-steam. It's not so complicated like building a German Loco with 1000 details. This atlantic-loco must be the right thing to have a move on!

I'm looking for builder's plans, pictures and details like Hiawatha' s symbol on the tender.

Maybe you can help.

Yours sincerely
Wolfgang Clössner

I love your site! (Julie's Trees) I looked at many of the pages and may I say, you are a competent gardener/arborist as well as an excellent photographer! And a nice look at the 'trees of home' (I don't actually live in Jersey anymore, but my parents still do) is also a treat. Again, thank you for sharing such great work!

famartin

My father, Stearns C. McNamara, was in the 44th -- in Australia and (I think) New Guinea.

He is gone now - but I'd like to find out as much information about the 44th as I can - what aircraft they worked on, living and working conditions, - just any information that might still be around.

My mother recently gave me a box, and it had some pictures from that time and place. There might be some that should be shared.

Thank you.

KenMc

Hi,

I recently became interested in Manhattan, when I found that my great-great grandparents were married, lived, and died there.

They were at 238 Henry Street. It was nice to browse your site and see so many wonderful pictures (bob's walk)

Have a nice day and Thanks,

Hi,

I just stumbled across your excellent website on the Hiawatha while researching vintage streamlined industrial design.

I know of a aluminum/silver colored coat button which features the Hiawatha woman with bow logo at a local antique store. Is this something more common than I suspect or did I come across something special?
Thanks!

Brian

Julie -

Love, Love, Love your website. I stumbled onto it looking for the perfect tree to shade my new patio at my 2-story Ohio home. After reading your diary, I decided on the Greenspire Linden as it didn't seem to have a lot of 'Junk" that would fall onto my patio, requiring a daily sweeping. Thank you so much, you were a great help.

Susan Cullen

TeesandStuff@aol.com

05.28.2004

Nifty

Great site I just stumbled across, by way of a link from one of Judy Epstein's sites. A real treat. Now THIS is what the worldwide web is all about!

I'll be back,

Jim Laney

jlaney5@comcast.net

02.13.2004

Please tell Julie that I found her tree pictures when trying to help my son with his tree project for 6th grade. I started reading her quotes of the day and could not stop. I have 3 children myself and I wish I would have written down some the things that they say. I appreciate her sharing her family stories.

Terri

terristaten@yahoo.com

01.22.2004

Hello,
I am trying desperately to locate a copy of a Fred C. Stoes print. I have tried unsuccessfully to contact someone at "Yesteryear Depot" who have the negative of the print in question. If you are able to help in any way please let me know. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Karla Gaffney
Spiral Tunnels Guesthouse

spirals@rockies.net

11.30.2003

Hello,

My name is Kirk Conway. and I just went through your wonderful webpages on the 1939 Hiawatha. You couldn't have done it any better if you had pulled all the stops out! I mean the pictures and writeups were awesome to say the least. The color shots of the cars were beautiful, and so vibrant, I loved it. And then on top of that, you went all the way through the complete story of the train, and how Otto Kuhler designed it from the front to the back and everything in between, I mean it was Incredible! Keep up the Excellent work on the webpages,

Cordially,

"Hiawatha Nut" Kirk Conway

kirkchev@ruraltel.net

11.4.2003

Re: Budd Built 1948 for Milwaukee #622 - Hiawatha

How and where do I go to get more information on the above?

Thank You,

Penny Minnick

pennylea@worldnet.att.net

8.24.2003

I enjoyed looking at your trees and their progress. I particularly enjoy fall color. Thank you for posting them on a website where more folks can see them. Be blessed!

Michael N. Haley

usagi1@erols.com

8.17.2003

Hi,

You have a very nice web page. I love trees too. I grew up in Bergen County New Jersey, but have lived in Denver CO for the past 24 years.

Ray

raymagee@msn.com

7.30.2003

I live in Sioux City, IA., NW. corner of the state. In 3 years, after losing 2 brand new Maple trees (Emerald luster, [replaced twice] and a Superform) on our newly landscaped yard of our new home, I want to do all I can to keep the 2 new Greenspire Linden trees that were planted to replace the dead Maples. What special care do new trees need, watering, fertilizer, insecticides? They are about 8' tall with trunk diameter of 2 1/2-3". They came with some insect leaf damage. They will be subjected to lots of wind. The soil is Loess Hills loam. We are in our late 60's and can't afford to lose tree growing years. Thanks for any help,

Helene

jtberg@cableone.set

7.14.2003

That Daniel kid should write a poem about the Astros' no-hitter against the Yankees, he's a good writer...

pistolpete68@hotmail.com

7.12.2003

Hi . . .I was wondering if you could give me any info. we live in Arizona . . . we've planted two purple plum trees, at first they had growth, now they look awful (planted about three months ago) are we over or under watering? I love these trees and see them everywhere . . . HELP!!

Thanks for any help you can give us.

Jeanne Shelton

jshelton@cybertrails.com

7.8.2003

What a delightful bit of prose you have offered as you describe Klein -- and Roundup. Seems I am retired (Lutheran pastor) that have always enjoyed the Milwaukee Road -- and since retiring 7 years ago I have been a volunteer worker with the MR Historical Association -- whose archives are here in Milwaukee. I was assigned the task of cataloging their 20,000 official photos -- so I became acquainted with many spots in Montana , not the least being Roundup! So when we vacationed two years ago -- (giving my wife a trip thru 13 federal parks) we did trace the MILW thru all of Montana -- including Roundup. Yes, it tears at the heart to see so much gone -- yet it was a delight to me to walk the ground, right of way, bridges, take picures (by the way -- the old depot in Ringling is available to anyone who wants it), and discover some "ghost towns" fairly well still preserved -- Martinsdale comes to mind. Thank you for sharing the tale -- maybe I shall have to buy the book!!

Martin Bangert

mwbang@execpc.com

5.7.2003

I have been told that some of the Arizona miners houses were sold off in the 50's and 60's and moved to other locations. Is that true? Where can I see a picture of some of these early box houses ?

Thank you for your time,

Darla

lovu4@aol.com

5.7.2003

I tried Myrtle's pancake recipe. It was great

KevinAt51A@aol.com

4.19.03

Do you have any other frosting recipes that go well with this cake (chcocolate mayonnaise cake) besides regular icing?????

Thank you. Email me back at baverb14@netscape.net. Thanks a lot!!!!!

Anna Coicends
Student at St. Elizabeths College

Thanks for the fine web site. I need to plant a tree to block my view of a neighbor's new house so I think I'll get an October Glory. I have 12 trees already on 1/4 acre and my favorite is the Chanticleer Flowering Pear.

Steve
Olympia, Washington

10.12.02

Julie's Trees

Hi, Julie!

I seldom have the time anymore, but went "pokin" around on the Internet this a.m., and came across your trees!

What a fantastic comparison! You did good in taking those photos! I have had a most refreshing time in looking at the comparisons! Nice job! (I'm glad I looked to find the link ... with the 1999 date on the front page, I thought you site might be defunct: I'm so glad it's not!)

Blessings!
Lynn

10.9.02

Julie's Trees

Enjoyed the most factual info on the Hiawatha...plus a quick check on the other fine things on your page. Keep it up. Yes, I am a member of the Milwaukee Road Historical Society - and yes - I am passing on your web page URL! To tweak your interest - one of my workers is presently processing 450 photos of experimental trucks (wheel sets) designed and manufactured in Milwaukee to see if they could run the train at a faster - smoother - speed and still stop it properly. Between the years 1934-50 they tried everything in the book - largely disc brakes, airline brakes, sway bars, shocks, spring sets that would make today's trucks look like playthings. Keep it up!!

Martin Bangert

10.8.02

About the Hiawatha

Dear Coffeedrome person,

Please find a way to tell "BOB" that I really admire his photography, and I thank him for taking the trouble to post the pictures of Manhattan and Lincoln Highway. His photos are gems.

Roger Berger

10.6.02

Lincoln Highway pictures.

Manhattan pictures.

I collect oxymorons -- I have, for years. Here are my own personal
favorites:

Jumbo shrimp
Painless dentistry
No-fault divorce
Happily married
Child-proof container
Religious tolerance
One size fits all

Any more goodies out there?

Judy Howard

Judybrehon@aol.com

6.28.02

Judy's oxymorons join Jack's in the Hiawatha Room

Thank you for publishing information on the "Speedway" in NY. I have been looking in the wrong places for it!

My great great uncle, Captain Clark H. McDonald, was the first Superintendent of the "Speedway" from articles I have read, but I only knew it was in NY and had to do with horse racing. He was also owner of two boarding stables, "Edgecombe" and "Clark H. McDonald Boarding Stables" in Manhattan. I am hoping to learn more, and I'm thrilled to have a history and pictures of the Speedway. I thought it was impressive enough when I figured the Speedway was a race track! This is so much more!

I don't know what the Coffeedrome is all about, but thank you for your informative article.

Pat

watts36@metrocast.net

6.26.02

New York Speedway

I just got back from Bradley's web page, dried myself off and I just have 1 thing to say . . . WHOA . . . COOL!

Mike

Bradley's ocean drawings

5.15.02

(This letter is in response to Myrtle's poem .)
    

 I really liked the poem.  It brought me back to my childhood.  I adore snow.  I start getting crabby when the weather threatens sunburns.  What you did best was set the mood.  I like the dialogue too.
     

 Thank you! It was fun,

A fellow poet

4.23.02

Ladies & Gentlemen,

I am an amateur model engineer, and I discovered the Hiawatha Room because my next project was to be miniature "Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Atlantic" and I bumped into your web site during my research. However, since then, steam locomotives or no steam locomotives, I've found it a delightfully relaxing clearing in the wilderness of modern life.

I feel inclined to contribute for the first time, and should like to express a faint disappointment emerging from "Babe's" list of questions and answers.

I am a Yorkshireman from the North of England, and throughout my childhood the term "lake" was synonymous with "play". This included both semi-organized games and simple play amongst children. It was quite common to hear that someone was "laking at cricket or football or whatever; and kids perhaps up to minor mischief were said to be "laking around".

There is a common and fairly gentle fitness procedure in which participants run around a course, stopping occasionally to walk along poles or climb over frames before running on the the next activity point. This procedure has the Norwegian name "Fartlek", which, (whilst I'm no linguist!) probably means "journey with games"; and I imagine that the Yorkshire term "lake" probably comes from the same root.

For many years, I had always fondly imagined that the "Los Angeles Lakers" perhaps had some Northern European or Scandinavian connection in their history, and that they "laked" at their sport.

Yet another childhood illusion bites the dust!!.

Greetings and best wishes to all your visitors and contributors.

Jim

Jim.Shirl@btinternet.com

4.10.02

Was looking for a resource on trees.  Looked up October Glory.  Really enjoyed your site.  Great Job!

Benjamin Dixon

storage01@comsat.net

4.18.02

"Why I Loved My Trip"
 
 
I have nothing of worth to send now,
Except these words of praise;
you inspire such a feeling of trust and relaxation,
Something that seemed to expire in a later day.
 
A time in our history and personable past,
When things were easier, more fun to do;
the interesting and true people enter and disappear from this station,
As softly as a summer's breeze through an old ship's mast.
 
 
Trains and westward trips were the roads I traveled,
The engineers, conductors, porters and chefs;
they helped me see life in a better way,
And I'll always smile at the memories they've left.
 
Thank's for reopening a door to this beautiful time,
Where the next destination offered was a more perfect clime.

Patrick Knoll

3.3.02

 (This letter is in response to Earnest's postcards of old New York hotels).

I have enjoyed your site very much. I was born in NYC and left at a very early age. My grandmother lived in Greenwich Village on West 11th and I frequently visited her with my mother. I have very sweet memories of 14th St. shopping trips, the bright lights of Broadway, trips to the Sheridan Theatre, the wonderful smells and sounds of the streets of New York City,
including the billowing smoke from the Camel ad, the parks, ice cream shops, trips to Coney Island, Paramas Beach, the sounds and smells of the subway,stick-ball, candy stores, rooftops.

All of it remains a dear part of my childhood. Thanks for bringing some of those sweet memories back again.

Lucille Pye

10.11.01

Can't wait to read it all.

I love your web site! In a hurry now, but will read every word, every
recipe, every whatever.

Jerry

7.31.01