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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...