In mid-summer, 1966, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train number 10, the Denver Zephyr, remains the most successful passenger operation to and from Denver, beating out even Union Pacific’s feet of City trains. Budd-built and completely re-equipped in 1955, the DZ features full dining car service, a clutch of Vista domes including the popular Chuckwagon dome-coffee shop, parlor car seating in the observation lounge, and two slumbercoaches, offering private sleeping accommodations with washstands and toilets at near-coach prices. Here on July 1 a little after 4 o’clock, the first section pulls out of Denver Union Station behind E9A 9944 to begin its 16-hour, 1034-mile dash to Chicago. After the May, 1971 Amtrak takeover, the Denver Zephyr will be retained, but never with Burlington’s elan or attention to detail, and within a few years the name though not the service will be quietly dropped from the timetable.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
