Equipment
The North Coast Hiawatha saw a variety of motive power and rolling stock during its eight years, as Amtrak disposed of its inherited equipment as best it could and gradually replaced it with its own stock. In the early 1970s a North Coast Hiawatha might feature as many as four dome cars pulled by ex-Milwaukee Road EMD E9s. The 1970 Burlington/Great Northern merger notwithstanding, cars carried both the "Big Sky Blue" livery characteristic of late Great Northern passenger trains and the "Cascade Green" of the Burlington Northern Railroad.
The North Coast Hiawatha was one of many routes to receive the new EMD SDP40F, which worked the route between 1974–1977, although older EMD E8 and EMD E9s continued to be used. A series of derailments involving the SDP40F prompted their replacement, and by late 1977 Amtrak had introduced the EMD F40PH on the North Coast Hiawatha. These sometimes ran with an E9 "B" unit as well. Early 1977 Chicago-Minneapolis consists included new Amfleet coaches while the Seattle through trains continued to run with domes.
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