The evening California Zephyr Amtrak brought with it the private observation California Zephyr dome car CBQ 377, named the 'Silver Solarium'. It was quite a sight to see the gleaming boat tail be... (more)
In mid-summer, 1966, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train number 10, the Denver Zephyr, remains the most successful passenger operation to and from Denver, beating out even Union Pacific’s feet of... (more)
This was the engine of my youth, CB&Q’s handsome O-5 Class Northern, which I watched from my grandmother’s backyard in Denver’s Globeville section. And just about the time I thought I would... (more)
Two SD9s, Burlington’s locomotive of choice on its Wyoming lines, set out across the North Platte River from the quiet town of Guernsey on a warm October afternoon in 1964 with a short freight f... (more)
Gallumping off the turntable at Colorado & Southern’s Rice Yard in Denver, the 4960 looks like a workaday steam locomotive, heading out for a day’s labor. But the date is October 17, 1963, and... (more)
Minutes out of Denver Union Station, Burlington 9988A sweeps past the 38th Street yard office with Number 10, the Denver Zephyr. It’s mid-January, 1965, and though the sun has barely set behind ... (more)
The motive power is pure Pennsylvania, but those are the Rockies not the Appalachians in the background, and we in Denver, watching CB&Q train 66 ease out of the 38th Street yard for Chicago. In 1... (more)
A pair of SD9’s idle away a Sunday afternoon at Burlington’s Sterling, Colorado, engine house. The CB&Q bought 80 SD9’s, more than any other road except SP, and they are the mainstay of loca... (more)
Burlington’s CD, the Chicago-Denver fast freight, makes the swing at the west end of Denver’s 38th Street Yard, and soon will cross the South Platte River and head up the long grade to Rio Gra... (more)
Early October, 1964, word is out among Denver railfans that something new is coming to town. Fresh off the GE erecting floor at Erie, Pennsylvania, four of Burlington’s new U25Bs are making thei... (more)
