If the glory years of the Burlington Railroad began in 1934, with the Burlington Zephyr's phenomenal Dawn-to-Dusk run, surely they culminated in 1949, with the arrival of the California Zephyr.

THE WAY IT WAS: A crowd gathers around a new Burlington Railroad Zephyr passenger train May 30, 1934, outside La Crosse’s old Burlington Passenger Depot, left, which was located on the southeast ...

The Union Pacific had not been idle all this time. In fact, the U.P. had taken delivery of its new train, the M10000, on Feb. 25, 1934, two months before the CB&Q obtained their Zephyr. Rather than ...