The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered trainset built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), commonly known as the Burlington Route. The trainset was the second internal combustion-powered streamliner built for mainline service in the United States, the first such train powered by a diesel engine, and the first to enter revenue service.
A postcard advertising the newly introduced Burlington Zephyr, later officially renamed Pioneer Zephyr
The coach seating area of Pioneer Zephyr as it appears on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
A front part of the power car
A Zephyr coach on a flatcar at the Budd Company plant in Philadelphia
The Budd Company was a 20th-century metal fabricator, a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry, and a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars, airframes, missile and space vehicles, and various defense products.
The Budd manufacturing facility in Philadelphia
First all-steel sedan by Edward G Budd Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia for John and Horace Dodge
Silver Slipper
Pioneer Zephyr