ABOVE: For many on the fan outing, the en- counter with the Pioneer Zephyr was a last chance with history. Shortly thereafter the train went to the Museum of Science and In- dustry in Chicago where it remains on display.
LEFT: The Pioneer Zephyr cools its heels in the siding at Rulo, Nebraska, waiting for an east- bound freight to clear.
UP/Milwaukee Road train No. 104, the City of Los Angeles/San Francisco, and a ride back to Marion, Iowa. The Creston to St. Joseph motor car
most of the fans chose to take train No. 41/90, the Pioneer Zephyr, leaving at 11:10 a.m. to Table Rock, Nebraska. The return trip was aboard train No. 89/42 to St. Joseph at 3:05 p.m. with shovel nose diesel Silver Charger on the point. At Rulo, Nebraska, the Pio- neer Zephyr went into the hole for an eastbound freight, affording a great photo opportunity. That 164-mile side trip was as eventful as the nearly-last-
run of the Creston motor car. Upon our return to St. Joseph, there remained two and a half hours to inves- tigate and photograph the coach and engine facility near the station before our departure at 5:35 p.m. A 9:00 p.m. arrival in Creston gave our group a comfortable connection back to Omaha’s Burlington station. A walk across the pedestrian overpass to Union Station brough us back to the
was discontinued within a few days of our trip. Service continued to be offered by a mixed train on a Monday, Wednes- day, and Friday schedule. Within a few months, the day train from St. Joseph to Brookfield, Missouri, and its connec- tion with the Kansas City Zephyr to Chicago was discontinued. Someone wishing to travel to Chicago from St. Joseph would now have to go south to Kansas City or north to Omaha to make a connection. This left the evening train to Brookfield with a through sleeper to Chicago. It was ru- mored that if you were a coach passen- ger, you rode the sleeper as far as Brookfield, then changed to coach once aboard the American Royal Zephyr. Such were the economies of the time.
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