"It was a sweet ride," CB&Q president Ralph Budd said as he disembarked from the Burlington Zephyr on its May 26, 1934, Dawn-to-Dusk Run. The ride would prove historic, too, going down in the books as ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a model of the Chicago, ...

Growing up on the West Side, Richard Gresens loved to draw moving objects and was fascinated by the designs of classic locomotives. So, it's little surprise that he's now a designer at Ford, where he ...

A wind from the west called the Zephyr–the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad’s new, diesel-powered, stainless steel, 72-passenger train–created a national sensation when it blew into town on May ...