The Song of Hiawatha 1950). American landscape painters referred to the poem to add an epic dimension to their patriotic celebration of the wonders of the national landscape. Albert Bierstadt presented his sunset piece, "The Departure of Hiawatha," to Longfellow in 1868 when the poet was in England to receive an honorary degree at the University of Cambridge. Other examples include Thomas Moran's "Fiercely the Red Sun Descending, Burned His Way along the Heavens" (1875), held by the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the panoramic waterfalls of "Hiawatha and Minnehaha on their Honeymoon" (1885) by Jerome Thompson (1814 – 1886). Thomas Eakins made
Hiawatha (train) lightweight equipment. The "Morning Hiawatha" (trains 5 and 6) and "Afternoon Hiawatha" (trains 3 and 2) continued to operate between Chicago and Minneapolis until the latter train was discontinued on January 23, 1970. The last runs of the "Morning Hiawatha" were on April 30, 1971, immediately prior to the introduction of Amtrak. With the delivery of the 1938 trainsets, the original 1935 "Hiawatha" equipment was reassigned to the Chicago to Omaha/Sioux City route where it ran as the "Midwest Hiawatha". The service began on December 11, 1940. The final trip for the "Midwest Hiawatha" from all terminals occurred on October