This is an elegant little menu for an elegant little motor train. An image of Mark Twain apparently groping a rather alarmed-looking Huck Finn (or perhaps Tom Sawyer) is deeply embossed on the cover. The menu is all printed on … Continue reading
Using the fourth set of streamlined Zephyr equipment made for the Burlington, this train was inaugurated in October, 1935 between St. Louis and Burlington, where it connected with the Aristocrat. In keeping with the theme, the power car was named … Continue reading
The fourth Zephyr built, after the original Zephyr and the Twin Zephyrs, was the Mark Twain Zephyr, which operated between St. Louis and Burlington, Iowa via Hannibal (Samuel Clemens hometown). Burlington had not yet started to name all its stainless-steel … Continue reading
