We all have "near misses" in our lives, and one of the biggest for me was the steam program of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, known best by the numbers of its two star locomotives ...

Burlington Route diesel locomotives showed a strong ... pioneer with its Zephyr passenger trains in the 1930s, and the railroad began dieselizing mainline freight trains with EMD FTs in 1943.

As more Zephyrs were built, new routes cropped up around the ... In 1948, the Federation for Railway Progress awarded the Burlington the Passenger Service Award for 1947. By the 1950s, the ...

The Burlington Route Historical Society in La Grange, Illinois is devoted to preserving the legacy of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The following gallery of Zephyr images is a ...