If the glory years of the Burlington Railroad began in 1934, with the Burlington Zephyr's phenomenal Dawn-to-Dusk run, surely they culminated in 1949, with the arrival of the California Zephyr.

Check out the above clip of the streamlined and backswept Burlington Zephyr as it rockets across the countryside on its way from Denver to Chicago in 1934. The trip was a technological breakthrough in ...

Back in the 1930s, riding by train was the way to travel and a major part of railroad income. The Burlington Route had one of the greatest passenger trains, known as the Burlington Zephyr. In 1934, a ...

Sixty years ago this month, a revolutionary train swept into Chicago on waves of both acclaim and hyperbole, making Page 1 news across the country and quickly becoming a national icon. A train as ...

THE WAY IT WAS: A crowd gathers around a new Burlington Railroad Zephyr passenger train May 30, 1934, outside La Crosse’s old Burlington Passenger Depot, left, which was located on the southeast ...

A wind from the west called the Zephyr–the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad’s new, diesel-powered, stainless steel, 72-passenger train–created a national sensation when it blew into town on May ...

The Union Pacific had not been idle all this time. In fact, the U.P. had taken delivery of its new train, the M10000, on Feb. 25, 1934, two months before the CB&Q obtained their Zephyr. Rather than ...