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Runner-up was Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R.'s leather-lunged Joe Lahr...
...entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished. In the dark, townsfolk watched whole houses and barns float by on the boiling flood waters. The water stood five feet deep in the Burlington station at Red Cloud, and two Chicago-Denver trains were stalled by washouts...
Sixty years ago the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's prime sales talk to prospective passengers was that its trains had been equipped with Westinghouse Air Brakes. . . . The Union Pacific boasted "one pure passenger train a day" out of Omaha, for San Francisco four days away. . . . Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ("Safe-Reliable-Elegant") advertised that "its road bed is simply perfect and its track is laid with steel rails"; its Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars "lighted by Pintsch Gas." . . . Southern Pacific, in 1899, assured magazine readers that "a Personal Conductor and Porter go through with...
First Dieselectric "neo-train" in regular service was on Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Burlington's famed Zephyr, which has been making a daily round-trip between Kansas City and Lincoln, Neb. since last Armistice Day, has upped traffic 153% in two months. Pleased with the experiment, Burlington put its new Zephyr Twins in service last month between Chicago and the Twin Cities on a 6½-hr. schedule. Zephyr Twins average 66 m.p.h., cost no more to run than large automobiles. Now building for Burlington is another stainless-steel streamliner, to be called Mark Twain...
...Burlington, Iowa...