Normally I select parts of an article found in the newspapers to condense it down to fit my column, but today I am going to use an article written on March 19, 1943, for the McCook Daily Gazette. As a ...

If the glory years of the Burlington Railroad began in 1934, with the Burlington Zephyr's phenomenal Dawn-to-Dusk run, surely they culminated in 1949, with the arrival of the California Zephyr.