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Nose of a classic by Mike Danneman Via Flickr: “Still displaying its Texas Zephyr lettering, Colorado & Southern EMD E5 No. 9952-A powers a passenger special at the Illinois Railroad Museum at Union, Illinois, in September 1984. In more recent times, the classy locomotive has been restored to its original Chicago, Burlington & Quincy number of 9911-A and wears black nose stripes. I’m sure glad one of these was saved!”
Photo by Mike Danneman
CB&Q E8A 9936 by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: BN 9936 with Train 1, the Denver Zephyr, taken from Chicago's Roosevelt Road Viaduct on March 30, 1971. The second unit is E7A BN 9920, ex-CB&Q 9935B with stainless steel sides as some E7s had. Note, BN smartly didn't try to paint the stainless steel green and white!
“The CB&Q eastbound Denver Zephyr arrives at station behind an E7 and two E8’s.”
Aurora, Illinois
June 15, 1968
Photo by Paul Enenbach
“CB&Q's eastbound California Zephyr behind E8, E7, E8 (9943B….) arrives at the station, while E9 (9991) awaits departure on the right (with E8 9944B) with the westbound North Coast Limited. The NCL is Northern Pacific's flagship train from St. Paul to Seattle, but the Q handled it from Chicago to the Twin Cities. Often the NCL was combined with the Great Northern's Empire Builder as well as the Q's own Afternoon Zephyr, making a long and colorful train into and out of Chicago. This being the beginning of the Summer travel season, there was evidently enough passengers to justify - or necessitate - running the trains separately.”
Aurora, Illinois
June 15, 1968
Photo by Paul Enenbach
“Burlington Zephyr postcard - this is the original 9900, later named the Pioneer Zephyr; it was the only one with the curved brow in the front window line, on the later Zephyrs the top window line was flat. Noting the viewing platform at left and the ramps laid across the tracks, it looks like it’s somewhere on one of its early (1934) exposition tours prior to entering regular service. The Pioneer Zephyr is on display today at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.”
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E8 9941B
"Combined DZ & CZ Due To Miss. River Flooding"
May 6, 1965
Kodachrome by Hol Wagner
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9 9985B westbound at Naperville, Illinois on February 27, 1965. Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This was the first section of Train Number 11, the Nebraska Zephyr.
The Denver Zephyr by railfan 44 on Flickr.
The Denver Zephyr inbound to Chicago, seen from the Congress Park commuter stop in Brookfield, Illinois
Photo by Marty Bernard
“An interesting piece of concept artwork developed by Budd as the Burlington Zephyr was taking form- it is shown next to the English GWR streamlined railcar, and the Budd Michelin railcar.”
CZ Departs Chicago Union Station with a Show by railfan 44 on Flickr.
Caption: “Three elephant-style CB&Q E7s blow the soot and moisture out of their cylinders when the engineer throttles up after sitting in the Chicago Union Station waiting for train time. This is the California Zephyr just minutes into its run to California on the cold day after Christmas in 1967.“
Photo by Marty Bernard
Caption: “Out on the double-track CB&Q mainline in north-central Illinois near Mendota, Illinois a Zephyr overtook the fantrip I was riding on March 21, 1965. The Zephyr was combined Trains 35 and 11, the Kansas City Zephyr and the Nebraska Zephyr, with an E7 up front and one of the two Nebraska Zephyr obs cars as the finishing touch. Both trains were westbound. The Zephyr had a station stop in Mendota at 12:22 p.m.”
Photos by Marty Bernard
BN 9920 E7A_Chicago by fourhundredfleet on Flickr.
Caption: "Only a handfull of BN’s E7As were repainted, including 9920, with a green nose at the 'Zephyr Pit' in Chicago on October 31, 1970. The 9920 was built as CB&Q 9935B in March, 1949. It was retired in April, 1972."
Photo by Jim Lewnard
CB&Q E-5 at West Chicago IL 1997 by Mark LLanuza on Flickr.
Nebraska Zephyr on excursion from the Illinois Railway Museum
West Chicago, Illinois
1997
Photo by Mark Llanuza
Caption: “September 30, 1993 fantrip with Illinois Railway Museum's Nebraska Zephyr trainset. This shot was taken at dusk at the very end of the trip at Mundelein. IRM's newsletter had a story about all the Zephyr trips that year: www.irm.org/railwire/rw153.html “
Photo by John Smatlak
A Denver Zephyr in August 1968 by railfan 44 on Flickr.
Caption: "On the Zephyr Track of the Race Track and minutes from the Chicago Union Station bumper posts, the Denver Zephyr still keeps up the pace in suburban Downers Grove at Fairview Ave. A late E7A 9936A built in March 1949 with 3 sisters vibrate the ground and my eardrums for only seconds as they zephyred past."
Downers Grove, Illinois
August 1968
Photo by Marty Bernard
Back-to-back E7As on the Morning Zephyr by railfan 44 on Flickr.
Caption: "This is the CB&Q's Morning Zephyr, Train 22, out of the Twin Cities headed for Chicago passing quickly through Downers Grove, a western Chicago suburb, on the Zephyr Track around 2:10 in the afternoon of September 13, 1965. The lead E7A was 9925A built in November 1945."
Photo by Marty Bernard
