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Burlington Route passenger trains remembered

By Rob McGonigal | December 8, 2024

| Last updated on December 20, 2024

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Burlington Route passenger trains are part of Classic Trains‘ editors’ celebration of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy all through December 2024.

 

A black and white photo of a locomotive passing over a bridge
A black and white close up picture of the top of a train
A silver train passing underneath a stop light
A close up black and white photo of a parked train in the dark with its lights on
A black and white photo of a train sitting at a station
A black and white photo of five trains sitting in a rail yard
A black and white photo of a train turning a corner
A black and white photo of a locomotive passing over a bridge
A black and white close up picture of the top of a train
A silver train passing underneath a stop light
A close up black and white photo of a parked train in the dark with its lights on
A black and white photo of a train sitting at a station
A black and white photo of five trains sitting in a rail yard
A black and white photo of a train turning a corner
A photo taken from the top of a train as it travels through a snowy area
A black and white photo of a train sitting outside a station
A silver training on the tracks
A black and white overhead shot of a train turning a corner
A black and white close up photo of a train traveling through a station
A black and white photo of a train traveling through a rural area
A black and white photo of a group of people watching two passenger trains go by
A close up black and white photo of a train sitting on the tracks
A silver train passing underneath a stop light
A black and white photo of a conductor climbing up a ladder into the train
A train passing through a busy city
Looking back at a train as it passes through a mountain and body of water
A black and white train with people on it turning a corner
Burlington’s Pioneer Zephyr
The first Zephyr train, later called Pioneer Zephyr, at Aurora, Ill., on nonstop Denver–Chicago run, May 26, 1934.
CB&Q

 

 

Please enjoy this photo gallery of Burlington Route passenger trains selected from Firecrown Media’s David P. Morgan Library.

Since October 2019, Classic Trains’ editors have celebrated a different Fallen Flag, that is, a Class I railroad that has been felled by bankruptcy, merger, or outright take over — and whose name, logos, symbols, and colors are relegated to history.

All online Fallen Flags articles are available at Trains.com.

This photo gallery was originally published in 2019.

 

4 thoughts on “Burlington Route passenger trains remembered”

  3. I don’t know that I like having the new owner add their name, Firecrown, to the David P Morgan Library.
    Will Firecrown resist the temptation of a “new broom sweeps clean?”
    I think the better philosophy should be “if it works, don’t fix it.”

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  4. Reckon a lot of people who enjoy trains would love this little bit of history! It’s a shame that we don’t see a lot more classics and manually operated engines around anymore though. It’s all given way to speedier and more environmentally friendly options, but it’s really not the same is it?

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