In 1948, the Federation for Railway Progress awarded the Burlington the Passenger Service Award for 1947. By the 1950s, the passenger rail business was suffering an irreversible decline.

Terry Abrisz had some help Saturday morning as he traced railroad history in Burlington, Lee County and Illinois during the ...

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ... As the popularity in passenger rail withered by 1967, the eastbound Morning Zephyr and westbound Afternoon Zephyr were hitched to the Northern ...

In 1931 Ralph Budd, the recently appointed president of the Burlington Railway (and no relation to Edward), suspected that stainless steel was just the sort of injection that passenger rail travel ...

Amtrak’s Charlotte to Raleigh Piedmont service is a three-hour trip with stops in Cary, Durham, Greensboro, Kannapolis, Burlington ... to invest in passenger rail we can unlock new markets ...