We all have "near misses" in our lives, and one of the biggest for me was the steam program of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy ... great people pictures, not train pictures.

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 ...

Burlington Route ... and was prophetically the first train to traverse the Dotsero Cutoff. The Q was still aware of the ...

By April 1934, the Burlington Zephyr -- named by Ralph Budd for Zephyrus, the god of the west wind and a symbol of rebirth -- was ready. It was unlike any train that had come before it ...