Visitors of the Museum of Science and Industry can view the Pioneer Zephyr inside and out. Here is a view of the cab.

One can almost smell and hear the story of this impressive engine

Just like 1968 all over again, the Nebraska Zephyr departs Chicago Union Station on a sunny morning in September.

Reminds me to Hoss and Little Joe..

The Burlington and the The Burlington. CB&Q 4-6-4 3003, in fresh paint, resides in close proximity to Burlington's namesake hotel along the Mississippi River.

The afternoon passing of the California Zephyr through the Chicago suburbs always held a special allure for me while I was growing up. Here she blasts through Riverside, Illinois on CB&Q's famed "... (more)

An A-B-B-A set of F3 diesels gets road grime washed off in Galesburg, Illinois, on a sunny October 1959 day. F3A 125-A must have been the trailing unit of the set, as the engine's coupler cover i... (more)

Changing of the Guard. A set of Burlington F3 diesels pass through the Galesburg, Illinois, yard in October 1959, passing by a number of Burlington steam locomotives stored near the now-ob... (more)

Chicago Burlington & Quincy F3 diesels get washed at the road’s Galesburg, Illinois, engine facility in October 1959. Note the coupler cover on F3A 117-A’s pilot. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn pho... (more)

A beautifully-kept CB&Q caboose adorns the Two Brothers Roundhouse (fka Walter Payton's Roundhouse, fka CB&Q Roundhouse), a facility that is over 150 years old.

CBQ 9911A leads the Nebraska Zephyr trainset into Galesburg, passing underneath some original CBQ signals. The signals are unfortunately being replaced by new ones just to the southwest.

The Nebraska Zephyr departs Chicago with a round-trip excursion to Quincy.

The Nebraska Zephyr races down "The Race Track" under the cover of darkness.

Christened on April 18, 1934, at the PRR's Broad Street Station, this Philadelphia born, Budd built, articulated streamliner achieved a remarkable speed of 112.5 mph in May of that same year (1934... (more)