Burlington Route history begins with the Aurora Branch Railroad, chartered on Feb. 12, 1849, to build a line from Aurora, Ill., to a connection with the Galena & Chicago Union (forerunner of the ...

We all have "near misses" in our lives, and one of the biggest for me was the steam program of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, known best by the numbers of its two star locomotives ...

If the glory years of the Burlington Railroad began in 1934 ... As more Zephyrs were built, new routes cropped up around the Midwest. With speed and economy firmly in hand, the Burlington ...