#burlington route

[ryethefops]

#i like to find the logos of defunct railroad companies and make pride versions of their logo #chessie system #milwuakee road #pennsylvania railroad #burlington route #pride

[20th-century-railroading]

CB&Q SD9 339

Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad SD9 339 and SD7 314 at Galesburg, Illinois on September 26, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.

#cb&q #burlington route #1965 #trains #passenger train #freight train #history #galesburg #illinois

[emeraldexplorer2]

The eastbound California Zephyr.

#vintage americana #americana #vintage train travel #vintage trains #vintage railroads #railroad #burlington route #california zephyr

[aryburn-trains]

Nebraska Zephyr Observation Car at Union Station. Chicago, IL 1963

#nebraska zephyr #cb&q #burlington route #1963 #chicago #lincoln #trains #passenger train #history #chicago union station #illinois #observation car

[zponds]

Since I made many posts on my TTTE OCs from the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad, I was recently thinking about expanding my roster of OCs… and these extra OCs would be from the…

Chesapeake & Ohio…

Baltimore & Ohio…

Milwaukee Road…

Burlington Route…

and…

Chicago & NorthWestern

Now since this is a recent thought, I haven’t thought about the names of the OCs from these five railroads, let alone what type of locomotives they would be. But don’t worry, when I think of it, I’ll make posts showing and going over them, so stay tuned for that, folks.

#chesapeake & ohio #baltimore & ohio #milwaukee road #burlington route #chicago & north western #thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte #ttte oc #train #trains #railroad #railroads #railway #railways #the genie team

[stone-cold-groove]

Tenth anniversary of the Pioneer Zephyr. First diesel streamline train in America - 1944.

#vintage illustration #railroads #travel by train #vintage travel #th pioneer zephyr #streamliners #burlington route

[aryburn-kc]

Burlington E7A #9932-B at Kansas City Union Station, circa 1965.

#cb&q #burlington route #1965 #trains #passenger train #history #kansas city union station #liberty memorial #kansas city #missouri

[windowcleaningairdrie]

Crack routing explained by Burlington experts, improves the efficiency of crack sealing. Without routing, crack sealing and filling typically causes the sealant to settle toward the top of the crack rather than the bottom.

#Crack Routing Burlington #Crack Routing Hamilton #Crack Routing Mississauga

[amtrak-official]

hi, i was just wondering if there is a train that runs from burlington up to maine

I am thinking about visiting friends there in the summer and don't want to drive (gas money, eck).

It is possible to get from Burlington to Maine, but you need to transfer in New York and Boston. The route would be: Ethan Allen Express to NYC then Northeast Regional to Boston then take the T (Boston Metro) from the South Station to North Station where you can take the Downeastern to Portland Maine

#asks #downeastern #northeast regional #ethan allen express

[deanwinchesterpregnant]

route 70 blues

When I was little, Dad taught us how the highways go: evens from east to west and odds from north to south. Starting up in Boston there's Route 90, all the way to Seattle. And then the 5 from the border at Blaine, through Seattle and down to the border at Chula Vista. Route 80 from New York, Route 70 from Maryland. And so on and so forth.

Route 70 was my favorite. There's an exit in Breezewood, Pennsylvania, and it looks like every exit on the east coast, but it was special to me because it had a McDonalds that Dad was always willing to stop at. Those were the days that you’d get the little slip that would tell you how much to pay based on which exit you were taking and there was a toll booth at Breezewood. I used to get a kick out of telling Dad how much he owed. Dean would never let me put one of those EZ-passes on Baby’s windshield, and now I just keep a couple $20s in the glovebox or pay the bills when they come in the mail. The car’s registered to a real address now.

We spent a lot of time on Route 70. Straight through a couple flyover states and ending in Utah. When Dean and I would play the alphabet game, we’d race to see who could spot the Zanesville, Ohio water tower first to get the Z and win it all. We would bet stupid shit on winning that game: who would have to clean Dad’s Colt next, who would have to cast iron bullets next. Who would have to make the beds at the next motel that would be home. That sort of thing.

But the main thing I remember about Route 70 was the way the sun would shine through the windows of the Impala once we’d get out of the green of the Kansas City suburbs and before we’d get into the Rockies. There was this little stretch where the fields turned tan with dead corn and wheat, and we’d stopped in a town called Burlington to sleep for the night on our way to a case in Moab.

It's a postage stamp town. There was a truck stop called Love’s and a motel named for the town, which was where we’d fueled up and then bedded down. I must’ve been about newly 16, Dean 20 and full of false-bravado. Dad was letting him go off on solo hunts more and more often by then, but he and I were together in the car at the time. I had been a steady passenger in the front seat by that point. And I remember – the sun was shining, and there were no trees to dapple it, and it hit Dean’s face just right. His freckles were finally coming back out in the May warmth and his eyes looked almost clear. He had a little grin on his face, the right side of his mouth pulled up as he nodded along to CCR’s Cosmo’s Factory cassette. Ramble Tamble was the opening track on the B-side. I always bitched about Dean’s music taste, but I didn’t mind the swamp rock so much. And I liked Ramble Tamble, because it reminded me of us. Drifting. A big long guitar solo that made Dean smile and made me think about moving from town to town.

Back then, I hated the way we lived, but I liked that the way we lived was something just Dean and I understood. Something just for us. No matter how many kids I couldn’t make friends with in school, eventually I'd get back in the car with Dean. And down the road we’d go.

In Burlington, Colorado, I knew I was in love with Dean. I knew it in that moment with the sun shining, with Dean's hands tapping on the steering wheel and John Fogerty crooning along in the background. I knew it in the way we’d share the motel bed since Dad only ever got rooms with two queens, and I knew it in the way that Dean would clean the guns next even though he’d spotted the Zanesville water tower first.

I'd wanted to lean over and kiss him. Instead, I'd said, “This is the tape with Up Around the Bend on it, right? I like this one.”

And he'd said: “Sammy, you might have some good music taste after all!” It'd made my chest bloom, and I loved him. I’d hold that inside for another decade before I said anything, and by that point, we were both doomed.

— for @wincestwednesdays "americana"

#don't @ me abt the past participle vs past tense i HATE IT #wincest wednesday #wincest #spike words #ww ficlet

[identifyingtrainsinposts]

hi do you take requests for id that arent actually posts? im watching the x files and i Think the train car that gets decoupled is from the pioneer zephyr family of trains, but im not sure.

heres the best pictures i got

and heres some crappy dark ones

thanks in advance!

My boy... that is a Budd Company - RDC-2

If I've ever seen one.

RDC stands for Rail Diesel Car. That means it can move around on its own. Presumably it's being used as a railcar here cause it looks like one and it can control itself for whatever tomfoolery happens in the show. Curiously the windows have been plated over. I guess they did that for the show. As for the Pioneer Zephyr connection... they were made by the same company! Everything Budd got their hands on was made of stainless steel though. I hesitate to call them related. Zephyrs have a dedicated power car and the earlier ones have semi-permanently coupled cars. The RDCs are easier to work with… every car is a power car so you can just slap more on if need be.

(Side tangent, The Pioneer Zephyr is just the first one made. Burlington Route named all their trainsets of that style the [X] Zephyr. Really the Zephyrs deserve their own post, they're great fun!)

#Budd #Budd Company #diesel electric #diesel #railcar #north america #sorry i kinda forgot about this for a bit >_< #dmu #well actually it’s just a du but shh

[20th-century-railroading]

CB&Q train, engine number 5272, engine type 2-8-2 Freight, northbound; 92 cars, 40 MPH. Photographed: north of McKinley, Wyo., May 30, 1931.

#cb&q #burlington route #1931 #trains #freight train #history #mckinley #wyoming

[emeraldexplorer2]

On the curve at Lisle, IL with a Big Sky Blue Empire Builder on August 27, 1969.

#vintage #nostalgia #lisle illinois #empire builder #burlington route #1969 #locomotive #train travel #train

[aryburn-trains]

1953 American Royal Zephyr (Update to 2016 gif) Chicago to Kansas City Burlington Route The consist includes two E7As, two havelock baggage cars, a 50-seat coach, a dome coach lounge, a 6 Sect - 6 Rmt - 4 DBR sleeper, a 10 Rmt - 6 DBR sleeper, a 6 Sect - 6 Rmt - 4 DBR sleeper and a 50-seat coach. The gifs used were made by me and can be found at the link below. They have my name in the description. http://kenstransitgifs.com/gifindex.html

#american royal zephyr #cb&q #burlington route #1953 #chicago #kansas city #trains #passenger train #train gif

[zponds]

Here’s an updated version of my profile picture of me made greatly by @grantgfan and @hunty627. Since I have Procreate, I thought I’d expand and add different shirts and caps (and even shoes) to myself in these pictures. But the one above is the first and original profile and can be used from time to time by myself, Grant and Hunter. And this setup has a shirt that’s green on the top half and has the New York Central logo on it, and the bottom half is red and has the Pennsylvania Railroad logo on it. This shirt’s setup is a nod to the fact that NYC and PRR were fierce arch rivals during their day (before public betrayal, ICC villainy and interference, and mergers happened) over the routes between New York City and Chicago. Not to mention NYC was often dubbed the “Green Team” and PRR was dubbed the “Red Team”. As for the cap, it’s light blue’n’blue and has the Union Pacific logo, and that’s a reference to the fact that UP is the only surviving ancient American railroad.

Here’s the first new profile, and this second shirt has its top half green with the New York Central logo on it, and bottom half navy blue and has the Chesapeake and Ohio logo on it. This symbolizes the fact that during the age of steam on the railroads, the New York Central got the coal for its steam locomotives from the Chesapeake and Ohio.

Here’s the second setup in this group of setups. In this one, I have a shirt that’s navy blue on the top half and has the Chesapeake and Ohio logo, and the bottom is a lighter blue and has the Baltimore and Ohio logo. This set is a reference to the fact that C&O and B&O had a rivalry in terms of transporting people and goods across the Application Mountains.

Here’s the third setup in this group of setups. Here, I have an orange’n’red cap with the Milwaukee Road logo on it. The shirt here has a yellow’n’green top half with the Chicago and Northwestern logo on it, and the bottom half is white’n’red and has the Burlington Route logo on it. This setup is a reference to the fact that during the golden days of American railroading (before public betrayal, ICC villainy and interference, and mergers), these three railroads had a super tense rivalry with each other over the railroad routes between Chicago and Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul), with Milwaukee Road’s Twin Cities Hiawatha, Chicago and Northwestern’s Twin Cities 400 and Burlington Route’s Twin Cities Zephyr all racing against each other from Chicago to Twin Cities, and from Twin Cities to Chicago.

Here’s the fourth and final setup for this group of setups. Here, I have a red’n’white cap with the Burlington Route logo on. And the shirt here has its top half with the two shades of green of Northern Pacific and the Northern Pacific logo on it, and the bottom half of the shirt has orange and brown of Great Northern and has the Great Northern logo on it. This setup is a reference to the formation of Burlington Northern, which was formed when these three railroads merged on March 2nd, 1970.

And that’s all the setups for this batch. More are on the way, I just gotta think about what other colors and railroad logos to add and in which specific setup to serve as a reference to historical facts regarding the specific railroads.

#my oc character #my oc art #union pacific #new york central #pennsylvania railroad #chesapeake & ohio #baltimore & ohio #milwaukee road #chicago & north western #burlington route #northern pacific #great northern #the genie team #genie team

[discoidal]

i too got burlington. so. we're in the same boat i guess. <3

the same boat en route to burlington this very minute !

#what sound does a boat make im in the mood to be onomatopoeiac #what genres did u have and why are they reminiscent for burlington? is that in indiana? where is it #zoe's mailbox