Zephyr (train)

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The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered stream-lined train-set built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in the United States.

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Since then, a zephyr has come to mean an American passenger rail route operated using stream-liner train-set of locomotives or power cars with matching passenger cars. Zephyr rail routes with proper names include:

Amtrak

Burlington-Rock Island Railroad

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Other trains