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 ...

Thus was born the Burlington Zephyr. The Zephyr went on display first in Philadelphia, for one day. More than 24,000 passed through the train, the modernistic interior of which was crafted by ...

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 ...

The Burlington Route had one of the greatest passenger trains, known as the Burlington Zephyr. In 1934, a Burlington Zephyr set a record traveling non-stop between Denver and Chicago in 785 minutes.

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 ...

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.