CB&Q E5 9911-A leads the Nebraska Zephyr East on a night run at IRM. In celebration of the museum's 70th anniversary, they pulled a all-nighter and ran trains the entire night from 9/16 into 9/17.
Right on time, the overnight Chicago to Denver "Denver Zephyr" approaches Denver's Union Station with three CB&Q E9A's in the lead, on March 8, 1967. From my slide collection, Photo by ... (more)
CB&Q (Burlington Route) GP7 224 at Kansas City, Missouri in February/1966. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.
CB&Q F3A 124-A, F3B, F7B & F7A to create a combine 6000hp consist eastbound at Neponset, Illinois in July 1963. In tow was train 88 bound for Cicero, Illinois. Photo from my collection, Photograph... (more)
Chicago Burlington and Quincy SD9 440 at East St. Louis IL May 1970. The 440 was built in August 1957 and retired in June 1986. This SD9 has yet to be renumbered BN 6187 in this photo. CB&Q 440-45... (more)
Here's another shot of CB&Q 4-8-4 #5632 on that excursion. The train is being wye-ed for a return to Chicago. Sadly, the 5632 was scrapped in 1969. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo
CBQ 504 and TTI 260 rest on the steam leads at the Illinois Railway Museum for showcase weekend night operations.
A railway postal clerk snags a bag from midair on a cross country CB&Q passenger train in the '50s... In reality, this comes from the time machine known as the Illinois Railway Museum at the ye... (more)
CBQ 504 and ATSF 92 sit side by side at IRM.
CB&Q 504 leads the Nebraska Zephyr east past Johnson siding.
Four of IRM's many operational diesels gather outside Barn 2 at the beginning of the second day of Diesel Days.
CB&Q 4978 sits on display with a caboose in Mendota. This is one of the nicer town displays out there.
CB&Q 9911-A sits on display inside Barn 9 during the IRM holiday event.
In early 1969 the Burlington Route took delivery on an order of 15 SD45s that wore this new color scheme that anticipated the impending Burlington Northern merger. Three of them headed up this eas... (more)
The Nebraska Zephyr holds on station track 2 during night operations at IRM.
