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 ...

The newly renovated Pioneer Zephyr, with new interactive elements and an expanded experience, on display at the Museum of Science and Industry on March 4, 2021. The front of the newly renovated ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Burlington Zephyr, America’s first diesel-powered high-speed train, was born of Ralph Budd’s vision of rail travel luxury. And with help from an MIT wind tunnel, that dream came to life, allowing ...

Flooding today in Burlington and Ottumwa are forcing Amtrak's California Zephyr to divert from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe line it usually travels across Iowa. The Iowa Department of ...

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 ...

Tourists today arrive largely by air. For many decades, many came by train. In our jet-speed age, it may be difficult to realize that the slower travel by train was part of the fun of a vacation in ...