Great Burlington Route
Author: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
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Published: 1875*
Total Pages: 10
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Author: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
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Published: 1875*
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Cleghorn Overton
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 724
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Boyle
Publisher: TLC Publishing
Published: 2006-04-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780976620167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 80 pages, with scores of photos and drawings, author Jonathan Boyle, Sr., chronicles the life of Burlington's premier cars of the streamlined era, the observation cars that brought up the rear of the great trains and carried their names --the "signature" cars of the fleet.
Author: Patrick C. Dorin
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Fascinating pictorial history of the Burlington Route, from its start as the tiny Aurora Branch Railway through to its 1970 transformation into the Burlington Northern. Chapters cover its formation, the standard era of passenger service, gas-electric motor cars, Zephyrs, transcontinental streamliners, commuter trains, freight and mixed trains, coal trains, subsidiaries, and the merger. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps, station list, timetables and ads." -- Amazon.
Author: Jeff Wilson
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780890243374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy - the Burlington Route - was known for its Zephyrs, the fleet of fluted stainless-steel passenger trains taht connected Chicago to points west. However, there was more to the CB&Q than flashy passenger trains. The railroad connected the nation's heartland, relying hevaily on agricultural traffic, including grain, livestock, and perishable goods. Ownded jointly by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, the Burlington prospered through the forties and fifties. The heart of the Burlington was its Chicago-to-Denver main line, which hosted several of the Q's famous passenger trains, including the California Zephyr, Denver Zephyr, and Nebraska Zephyr. The line also hosted freight trains, including Chicago-to-Denver time freights, livestock specials, and large blocks of reefers (refrigerator cars). The start of the Golden Years for the Q was 1934, when the original Zephyr first created a stir around the country. The Burlington had maintained a modern fleet of steam locomotives in 1930, powerful O-5 and O-5A 4-8-4 Northerns and class S-4 Hudsons that were the primary fast freight and name passenger power into the 1940s. In Burlington Route Across the Hearland, Jeff Wilson highlights much of this action, along with the first arrival of freight diesels and the evolution of Zephyr operations and equipment." -From back cover
Author: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard G. Corbin
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 312
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Earl J Currie
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780996122566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurlington Northern (BN) formed from the merger of four railways. Success required complex planning and implementation programs. Then the electric-power industry summoned BN to transport immense amounts of low-sulfur coal, and railroading as an adventure began for thousands hired to improve or increase the railroad's capacity, lines, tracks, and fleet size. Soon, BN's lines handled the highest tonnages of any railroad line in the world, past or present. This, the first in a two-volume series, covers this important decade.