The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ... by the Budd Manufacturing Co., trainset No. 9900 helped set the stage for the Zephyr lineage and passenger streamliners in North America.

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.