By April 1934, the Burlington Zephyr -- named by Ralph Budd for Zephyrus, the god of the west wind and a symbol of rebirth -- was ready. It was unlike any train that had come before it ...

The ride would prove historic, too, going down in the books as the longest nonstop train trip the world had ever witnessed. The Burlington Zephyr's Dawn-to-Dusk Run, Burlington Northern Santa Fe ...

and Kansas City, the three-car articulated train (later four in 1935 ... Zephyr to be christened the Mark Twain Zephyr. It also started the Burlington Route's trend in naming individual passenger ...

If you ask me, Webster City needs a passenger train to Chicago. The last train, Illinois Central’s Hawkeye,* left Webster City for Chicago the night of April 30,1971. The next day, 182 passenger ...