Introduction -- Speed -- Enter the Hi : "speedlined" became the adjective -- From tip top tap to beaver tail : the train that netted $700,000 in a year -- Ribbed cars and 4-6-4's : what was unprecedented became astounding -- 100 hits 100 : a few figures for skeptics to mull over -- Diesels, war, and S.R.O. : an all-out war, all-out Hi's -- Famous 15 : the locomotive that sold the steam-powered Milwaukee Road on diesels -- Skytops and super domes : more diesels and enough new cars to make a 2 1/2-mile Hi -- Yellow paint and red ink : for President Crippen, "an unhappy task" -- North woods Hiawatha : the Hi that was the fisherman's friend -- Midwest Hiawatha : "the audacity to challenge entrenchments" -- Olympian Hiawatha : to fill a void, "a perfect train" -- Chippewa-Hiawatha : where aging Pacifics dimmed their headlights for deer -- Epilogue -- Way of the Hiawathas -- Locomotives -- Rolling stock.