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    The Twin Zephyrs, also known as the Twin Cities Zephyrs, were a pair of streamlined passenger trains on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q)...
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    Twin Cities Zephyr articulated trainsets — the "Train of the Gods" and "Train of the Goddesses" — that became synonymous with it. The Nebraska Zephyr...
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    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...
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    meantime, after the success of the 3-car and 4-car Pioneer Zephyr, Twin Zephyrs, and Mark Twain Zephyrs, the Burlington had ordered two pairs of longer stainless...
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  • Ministry of Defence purchased two Zephyr 8 planes. In August 2016, a third was purchased. In 2016, a twin-tailed Zephyr T variant, providing a maritime...
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  • 8-201-A 600 hp (447 kW) Pioneer Zephyr CB&Q 9900 1934 1 B-2 Jacobs bogie Winton 8-201-A 600 hp (447 kW) Twin Zephyr CB&Q 9901, 9902 1935 2 B-2 Jacobs bogie...
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    operated dome-parlor-observation cars on the Twin Zephyrs, the Kansas City Zephyr and the Denver Zephyr. Several railroads operated dome observation cars...
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    named trains: Borealis Hiawatha Illinois Service: Lincoln Service, Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg, and Illini and Saluki Michigan Services: Blue Water,...
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    fastest trains in Chicago, as it had in the 1930s and 1940s when the Twin Zephyrs, Twin Cities 400, and Hiawatha were based in the city. Chicago is North...
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    steam locomotive. The Twin Cities Zephyrs added a second set of trains daily in 1936, running the Morning Zephyr and Afternoon Zephyr from each terminal...
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    The Lincoln Zephyr V12 was a 75° V12 engine introduced by Ford Motor Company's Lincoln division for the Lincoln-Zephyr in 1932. Originally displacing 267...
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    dual overhead camshaft inline-four engine. Zephyr styling is roughly based on the old Kawasaki Z1, with twin shock rear suspension, a relatively upright...
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  • Railroad Twin Cities Zephyr Twin Cities 400 Sister city Twin city (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Twin Cities...
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    The Mark Twain Zephyr was an early diesel four-unit articulated zephyr train that was similar to the Pioneer Zephyr in style. The train was built by the...
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  • St. Louis Silver Streak Zephyr, Lincoln, Nebraska to Kansas City, Missouri Twin Cities Zephyr, Chicago to Minneapolis Zephyr Rocket, St. Louis to Minneapolis;...
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    five-passenger mid-size luxury sedan manufactured by Ford and marketed as the Zephyr (MY 2006) and as the MKZ (MY 2007–2020) by Ford's Lincoln brand across two...
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    Ford Fairmont (redirect from Mercury Zephyr)
    Lincoln, Mercury sold a divisional counterpart of the Fairmont as the Mercury Zephyr. The inaugural model lines of the rear-wheel drive Ford Fox platform (which...
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    1970; by 1971, the BN offered three daily Twin Cities–Chicago round trips on the Morning Zephyr, Afternoon Zephyr, Empire Builder, and North Coast Limited...
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    were the last "high-speed" trains to use steam power. In 1936, the Twin Cities Zephyr entered service, from Chicago to Minneapolis, with an average speed...
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    the former Twin Cities Hiawatha, and beginning in May 2024 has been supplemented by the Borealis. In pre-Amtrak days it used the Twin Zephyrs routing. The...
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    Amtrak.[page needed] The Zephyr fleet included:[page needed][page needed] Pioneer Zephyr (Lincoln–Omaha–Kansas City) Twin Cities Zephyr (Chicago–Minneapolis-St...
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    alternative routing (e.g. via Twin Star Rocket route; or by combining Zephyr Rocket and Twin Star Rocket routes). "Zephyr Rocket Consists". Rock Island...
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  • Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's Twin Zephyrs enter revenue service between Chicago, Illinois, and the Twin Cities. May 15 – The first line of the...
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    Burlington and Quincy Railroad station in Downers Grove, Illinois. The Twin Cities Zephyr, a high-speed inter-city passenger train, struck a tractor that had...
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    Lincoln-Zephyr as a sub-marque within Lincoln for 1936.: 155  Designed as a competitor for the (Cadillac) LaSalle and Chrysler Airflow, the Lincoln-Zephyr was...
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    nighttime counterpart to the Burlington's Twin Zephyrs. At the time, the CB&Q sought to compete in the Chicago-Twin Cities overnight train market against...
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    The Eurocopter, later Airbus Helicopters, AS355 Écureuil 2, or Twin Squirrel, is a twin-engine light utility helicopter developed and originally manufactured...
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  • Houston Zephyr (Dallas-Fort Worth–Houston) (with CB&Q) Texas Rocket (Dallas-Fort Worth–Houston) (counterpart to the Zephyr with Rock Island) Twin Star Rocket...
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    trainsets from the Twin Cities Zephyr, number 9901, was transferred to begin this new route. While under the management of the Rock Island, Zephyr 9901 power...
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    capacity, it was fitted with a 600 cc Douglas flat-twin engine that produced only about 20 hp (15 kW). The Zephyr was a two bay biplane with wings without stagger...
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