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Pioneer Zephyr
The ''Pioneer Zephyr'' is a diesel engine, diesel-powered trainset built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), commonly known as the Burlington Route. The trainset was the second internal combustion-po ...
is a diesel-powered stream-lined train-set built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in the United States.
Since then, a zephyr has come to mean an American passenger rail route operated using stream-liner train-set of locomotives or power cars with matching passenger cars. Zephyr rail routes with proper names include:
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Amtrak
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Illinois Zephyr'', Chicago, Illinois to Quincy, Illinois
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California Zephyr
The ''California Zephyr'' is a Amtrak Long Distance, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville station, Emeryville), via Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, Denver, Sa ...
'', Chicago, Illinois to Emeryville, California
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San Francisco Zephyr
The ''San Francisco Zephyr'' was an Amtrak passenger train that ran between Chicago and Oakland, California, Oakland from June 1972 to July 1983, when it was renamed to the California Zephyr
History
From the start of Amtrak in spring 1971 unti ...
'', Chicago, Illinois to San Francisco, California
Burlington-Rock Island Railroad
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Rocky Mountain Rocket'', Chicago, Illinois to Denver, Colorado
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Sam Houston Zephyr'', Fort Worth to Houston, Texas
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Zephyr Rocket'', St. Louis, Missouri to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (jointly operated with Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad)
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
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Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr'', Lincoln, Nebraska to Chicago, Illinois
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American Royal Zephyr
The ''American Royal Zephyr'' was a streamlined passenger train service operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad between Chicago and Kansas City. This CB&Q ''Zephyr'' was named for the American Royal, one of the Midwest's large ...
'', Chicago to Kansas City
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Denver Zephyr
The ''Denver Zephyr'' was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad between Chicago, Illinois, and Denver, Colorado. In peak years it ran to Colorado Springs. It operated from 1936 to 1973. The ''Denve ...
'', Denver to Chicago
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General Pershing Zephyr
The ''General Pershing Zephyr'' was the ninth of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's Burlington Zephyr, ''Zephyr'' streamliners, and the last built as an integrated streamliner rather than a train hauled by an EMD E-unit diesel locomoti ...
'', Kansas City to St. Louis
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Kansas City Zephyr
The ''Kansas City Zephyr'' was a streamliner passenger train service operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) between Chicago and Kansas City.
Overview
The largest fleet of named streamliners in the United States were th ...
'', Kansas City to Chicago
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Nebraska Zephyr'', Chicago, Illinois to Lincoln, Nebraska
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Ozark State Zephyr'', Kansas City to St. Louis
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Silver Streak Zephyr'', Lincoln, Nebraska to Kansas City, Missouri
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Twin Cities Zephyr'', Chicago to Minneapolis
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Zephyr Rocket'', St. Louis to Minneapolis; jointly operated with Rock Island Railroad
Other trains
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Mark Twain Zephyr'', St. Louis, Missouri to Burlington, Iowa; an early articulated trainset
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Minnesota Zephyr'', a heritage railroad out of Stillwater, Minnesota
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Rio Grande Zephyr
The ''Rio Grande Zephyr'' was a passenger train operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW or Rio Grande) between Denver, Colorado and Ogden, Utah from 1970 until 1983. In operation after the creation of publicly-funded Amtrak, th ...
'', Denver, Colorado to Ogden, Utah; operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
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Texas Zephyr
The ''Texas Zephyr'' was a List of named passenger trains, named train, passenger train operated by the Colorado & Southern Railway and the Fort Worth & Denver Railway (both subsidiaries of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad). The train wa ...
'', Denver to Dallas
Set index articles
Lists of named passenger trains