| Illinois Railway Museum's Chicago Burington & Quincy Nebraska Zephyr, running as Amtrak Train #971 is making track speed of 79 MPH on the BNSF Brookfield Sub. during an all day excursion from Chicago Union Station to West Quincy, MO and back. The train will bed down tonight in its home at IRM in Union, IL. Never in my life did I figure I'd see this, the "Train of the Goddesses" running wide open on home rails unassisted. This photo was featured in the December 2012 issue of Trains Magazine. |