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2/5/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  The Zephyr is the first thing you see when you enter the museum, located between the parking garage and the ticket purchase point.
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:07:54 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  This engine was completed on April 9, 1934; yet somehow, it still looks futuristic!
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:09:24 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  Amongst its other duties was carrying the mail! Talk about "express mail."
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:10:30 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  85   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  Best seats were in the back!
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:11:15 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  78   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  See what I mean? Probably nicer than your bosss office!
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:11:57 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  74   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  As comfortable as they look!
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:12:39 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  68   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  Zephyrettes, the female attendants, made sure you had everything you needed on your ride (and probably did a better job than most flight attendants do today).
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:13:53 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  But given the right platform, it could be...
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:14:34 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  75   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:15:09 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  79   Comments: 0
Pioneer Zephyr
Title:  Pioneer Zephyr
Description:  Couplers, if necessary in case of emergency. They werent necessary on this engines record-breaking run from Denver to Chicago.
Photo Date:  3/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 4:16:58 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives:  CBQ 9900(AA)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
SRN 408 SLSF 1621 CBQ 9908
Title:  SRN 408 SLSF 1621 CBQ 9908
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/19/2021  Upload Date: 6/22/2021 9:11:42 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, MO
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SRN 408(NC) SLSF 1621(2-10-0) CBQ 9908(AA)
Views:  162   Comments: 0
SLSF 1621 CBQ 9908
Title:  SLSF 1621 CBQ 9908
Description:  1621 was originally built for Imperial Russia! However, the Russian Revolution intervened, and it was reassigned to US use. It worked for the Eagle-Picher mines, over by the now-ghost-town of Picher, Oklahoma.
Photo Date:  6/19/2021  Upload Date: 6/22/2021 9:15:07 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, MO
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SLSF 1621(2-10-0) CBQ 9908(AA)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
CBQ 9908
Title:  CBQ 9908
Description:  Another futuristic engine! This was the last Zephyr engine built for the Burlington Route. Constructed in 1939, it ran the Burlingtons St. Louis-Kansas City route (different from the Missouri River Runner, which uses the old Missouri Pacific trackage).
Photo Date:  6/19/2021  Upload Date: 6/22/2021 9:17:31 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, MO
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CBQ 9908(AA)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
CBQ 9908
Title:  CBQ 9908
Description:  Known as the Silver Charger, this engine was also called the General Pershing Zephyr, since Pershings boyhood home of Laclede was located along its route.
Photo Date:  6/19/2021  Upload Date: 6/22/2021 9:20:04 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, MO
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CBQ 9908(AA)
Views:  160   Comments: 1
SLSF 1621 CBQ 9908
Title:  SLSF 1621 CBQ 9908
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/19/2021  Upload Date: 6/23/2021 4:36:01 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, MO
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SLSF 1621(2-10-0) CBQ 9908(AA)
Views:  168   Comments: 0


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