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Silver Streak Zephyr

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Status
  
Discontinued

Class(es)
  
Coach and Parlor

Last service
  
1959

End
  
Kansas City Union Station

Service frequency
  
Daily

Distance travelled
  
402,336 m

Start
  
Lincoln

First service
  
15 April 1940

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Service type
  
Daytime inter-city rail

Average journey time
  
Eastbound: 5 hrs 50 min; Westbound: 5 hrs 35 min

Train number(s)
  
Eastbound: 20, Westbound: 21

Former operator
  
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

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The Silver Streak Zephyr was a train service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the American midwest. It ran from 1940 through 1959.

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On April 15, 1940 the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurated the Silver Streak Zephyr operating a Lincoln-Omaha-St. Joseph-Kansas City round trip daily. The new train was named Silver Streak Zephyr for the train portrayed in the Paramount Motion Picture The Silver Streak, with the starring role by the Pioneer Zephyr. The CB&Q liked the name and assigned it to the new Zephyr. This was the second Zephyr assigned to this route as the Pioneer Zephyr had operated in this service for some time and had actually outgrown it, when it generated more traffic than it was able to handle.

Silver Streak Zephyr Kato N 106090 Chicago Burlington and Quincy EMD E5A and Silver

For power the new five car lightweight streamliner was assigned a new EMD E5A unit developing 2,000 horsepower (1,500 kW) Passengers were obviously pleased with the new Silver Streak Zephyr as ridership showed a marked increase within days of the new trains entry into service. As with the earlier General Pershing Zephyr and Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr the new Silver Streak Zephyr no longer operated with articulated train sets or for that matter even articulated cars. The Burlington’s days of ordering articulated equipment were over and no further cars of that type would ever be contemplated.

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References

Silver Streak Zephyr Wikipedia