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.

It became fitting for the fourth Zephyr to be christened the Mark Twain Zephyr. It also started the Burlington Route's trend in naming individual passenger cars – the MTZ honored characters from ...

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 ...

Official timing clock and tape stretch across the front of the streamlined Burlington Zephyr train in Union Station in October 1936, before the train started for Denver, a distance of 1,017 miles ...

He knew a jazzy name was needed. Zephyr comes from the Greek god of west wind, Zephyrus, and was already used with the famous Burlington Zephyr Express train, which had hit a speed of 112 mph in 1934.

The ride’s art deco loading station was designed to resemble the lead car of the Burlington Zephyr train which ran between Chicago and Denver. In their book "Pontchartrain Beach: A Family Affair ...

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.