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.
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:
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Amtrak
Illinois Zephyr, Chicago, Illinois to Quincy, Illinois
California Zephyr, Chicago, Illinois to Emeryville, California
San Francisco Zephyr, Chicago, Illinois to San Francisco, California
Burlington-Rock Island Railroad
Rocky Mountain Rocket, Chicago, Illinois to Denver, Colorado
Sam Houston Zephyr, Fort Worth to Houston, Texas
Zephyr Rocket, St. Louis, Missouri to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (jointly operated with Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad)
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr, Lincoln, Nebraska to Chicago, Illinois
American Royal Zephyr, Chicago to Kansas City
Denver Zephyr, Denver to Chicago
General Pershing Zephyr, Kansas City to St. Louis
Kansas City Zephyr, Kansas City to Chicago
Nebraska Zephyr, Chicago, Illinois to Lincoln, Nebraska
Ozark State Zephyr, Kansas City to St. Louis
Silver Streak Zephyr, Lincoln, Nebraska to Kansas City, Missouri
Twin Cities Zephyr, Chicago to Minneapolis
Zephyr Rocket, St. Louis to Minneapolis; jointly operated with Rock Island Railroad
Other trains
Mark Twain Zephyr, St. Louis, Missouri to Burlington, Iowa; an early articulated trainset
Minnesota Zephyr, a heritage railroad out of Stillwater, Minnesota
Rio Grande Zephyr, Denver, Colorado to Ogden, Utah; operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Texas Zephyr, Denver to Dallas