The original three-car (including locomotive) Twin Zephyrs featured in yesterday’s brochure had 88 seats, but the trains were so popular that Burlington immediately made plans to replace them with a six-car (plus locomotive) train that had 222 revenue seats. The … Continue reading
This menu is undated, but the front cover says it is for “The New Twin Zephyrs” while the back lists the name of each car in the “Train of the Gods” and the “Train of the Goddesses.” That suggests it … Continue reading
As previously described, the first Burlington streamlined trains to operate between Chicago and the Twin Cities were three-car trains nearly identical to the original Zephyr. When they entered service on April 21, 1935, demand greatly exceeded their capacity. So in … Continue reading
A consulting firm named Coverdale and Colpitts (now part of URS) once did a variety of economic analyses for the rail industry. In 1935, the firm published a report on the Burlington Zephyrs, followed by reports in 1938, 1939, 1941, … Continue reading
In November, 1934, after the end of the Chicago fair, the Burlington put its original Zephyr (number 9900) to work between Kansas City and Lincoln, Nebraska via Omaha–something of a spit-in-the-eye to the Union Pacific, which was headquartered in Omaha. … Continue reading
