The sun sets on the endangered CB&Q signals in Naperville.

The Pioneer Zephyr now rests fully preserved in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry

Three BN E8s, 9964, 9969 and 9975, still display their CB&Q paint as they lead the very first daily Amtrak City of San Francisco into the Aurora, IL, station.

The Hostler makes sure the rails line up at the less celebrated turntable on the other RR in town, C&S, for lowly Q RPO Doodlebug 9768. For more color views from that day, click Railroad: Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Locomotive: Pullman-EMC
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
Locomotive #: CBQ 9768
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: September, 1957

With the Wyoming State Capitol building looming off to the left, Doodlebug 9768 goes for a spin on the Cheyenne turntable. For more color views from that day, click Railroad: Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Locomotive: Pullman-EMC
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
Locomotive #: CBQ 9768
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: September, 1957

Mikado 5506 had been converted to oil burner after being reassigned to the Casper sub in the '20s. Internet research indicates it was sold to the C&S by the Q, scrapped in 1960, but its hard to t... (more)

9911A leads the recently returned Nebraska Zephyr into station track 2.

Engineer Roger B. waits for traffic ahead to clear so he can put 504 to bed for the night. As seen through the East Union station bay window during night running at Museum Showcase Weekend 2009.

At Kansas City ... I don't know the name of the train but as recollection serves, it was a mail train perhaps to Omaha. Any help or knowledge would be helpful!

Technically both Burlington Northern locomotives, CB&Q 9982 and Great Northern NW5 992 are in use on this cloudy day in Fargo.

CBQ 5632 westbound on a Journeys to Yesteryear excrusion operated by the Illini Railroad Club, seen here between Galesburg and Aurora in 1962

The "obscar" from the Nebraska Zephyr "Train of the Gods".

The Nebraska Zephyr somewhere between Chicago, IL and Burlington, IA. Based on the overhead lines, I'd have to say Union, IL.

While an IRM employee guards the crossing with a "Stop" sign, 504 crosses Olson Rd. as the last locomotive in the parade line up for the Illnois Railroad Museum's Diesel Days celebration.

CB&Q's Silver Pilot leads the articulated "Train of the Gods" stainless steel passenger set Eastbound on the Museum's trackage which parallels UP's line to the right.