In the Chicago Science and Industry Museum

@@highoctanegames great

​@@highoctanegamesWell my son is glad it's preserved but would love for it to be restored to operation. He thinks that would be a better way to remember it!

125.88mph vs 124

Your reference gives the Zephyr's top speed as 112.5 mph. Mallard did 126 mph. You may be confusing kmh with mph

My special needs son agrees with you on that completely! He thinks articulated streamlined passenger trains like that one are highly underrated and that Progress Rail, Siemens, or any other company that builds railroad equipment should build full size working replicas of historic streamlined trains like the Union Pacific M10,000, the City of Denver, & New Haven Comet with updated features like recycled ♻️ aluminum bodies and frames, Plexiglas and/or safety glass windows 🪟, Cummins and/or Caterpillar diesel engines that run on biofuel with mufflers and catalytic converters and rechargeable batteries 🔋for the electrical systems and LED headlights, ditch lights, taillights, and strobe light.

For a while, a 4th car was added to this Pioneer Zephyr train. Later versions like the Mark Twain Zephyr and the Nebraska Zephyr did have more cars.

All wearing their hats as they queued up to watch. And all the crowds out in big cities, and in the paddocks at small country towns. A publicity coup for the Burlington Line. Marvellous photography. I particularly liked the aerial shots, into which was spliced film from inside the carriage of the plane carrying the other photographer.

Except the mooning landing was all faked in a studio. Its possible that the manned moon missions were real but the televised mission was fake fake fake.

Trains should have remained primary means of transport

​@@wertbe1718My son agrees with you on that completely! He thinks rail travel is highly underrated and should make a comeback today!

Imagine if they took it out of the museum and made a special occasion to ride it around Chicago

​@@highoctanegamesMy special needs son would love that! He thinks restoring the Pioneer Zephyr to operation would be a better way to remember it and would be a really useful shiny passenger train today!

The construction on the Empire State building began March 17,1930 and one year an 45 days later was completed.

Wouldn't you guess Amtrak could crush this record if they did not operate at the mercy of the freight trains?

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue a great piece of American classical music

The diesel engine is very efficient. It was only 3 cars, too.

And here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroliner is the Electroliner. Not built by Budd, but along the lines you may be thinking.

I also grew up in Burlington in the 50's and saw it holding up traffic in the middle of town while my father and I waited in a car. I always was interested in railroads and lived a few streets up on South Hill so I was real close by the yard.I also walked the hardly used spur line that went parralel to the Miss River from the bridge heading south. You can see it in some of these videos on you tube. We kids explored and had fun exploring the great Burlington Northern whenever we could get away with it.

Wow