An A-B-B-A set of F3 diesels gets road grime washed off in Galesburg, Illinois, on a sunny October 1959 day. F3A 125-A must have been the trailing unit of the set, as the engine's coupler cover i... (more)

Changing of the Guard. A set of Burlington F3 diesels pass through the Galesburg, Illinois, yard in October 1959, passing by a number of Burlington steam locomotives stored near the now-ob... (more)

Chicago Burlington & Quincy F3 diesels get washed at the road’s Galesburg, Illinois, engine facility in October 1959. Note the coupler cover on F3A 117-A’s pilot. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn pho... (more)

A beautifully-kept CB&Q caboose adorns the Two Brothers Roundhouse (fka Walter Payton's Roundhouse, fka CB&Q Roundhouse), a facility that is over 150 years old.

CBQ 9911A leads the Nebraska Zephyr trainset into Galesburg, passing underneath some original CBQ signals. The signals are unfortunately being replaced by new ones just to the southwest.

The Nebraska Zephyr departs Chicago with a round-trip excursion to Quincy.

The Nebraska Zephyr races down "The Race Track" under the cover of darkness.

Christened on April 18, 1934, at the PRR's Broad Street Station, this Philadelphia born, Budd built, articulated streamliner achieved a remarkable speed of 112.5 mph in May of that same year (1934... (more)

Burlington's Silver Pilot and the Train of the Goddesses, aka; The Nebraska Zephyr.

The Nebraska Zephyr, a former CB&Q passenger train now owned by the Illinois Railway Museum got a chance to stretch her legs - topping 79 mph, if not more, during a rare excursion from Chicago to ... (more)

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy's Nebraska Zephyr, having just departed Galesburg, IL, heads towards a late evening arrival in Aurora followed by a trek on the Racetrack before arriving back at Uni... (more)

The Nebraska Zephyr departs the Windy City out of Union Station on a rare excursion off the Illinois Railway Museum grounds bound for Quincy, IL and return. The Silver Pilot (the sloped nosed E-5... (more)

Someone had a bad day...here are the remains of a CB&Q wooden caboose.

Right on time, Burlington Kansas City Zephyr between Chicago and Kansas City has just crossed the Mississippi River into West Quincy, Mo. The 3rd car in the train is a round end parlor dining car... (more)