Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Western Pacific Railroad
Route
Termini
Chicago, Illinois Oakland, California
Distance travelled
2,438 miles (3,924 km)
Service frequency
Daily
Train number(s)
39/40
The Exposition Flyer was a passenger train jointly operated by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q), Denver & Rio Grande Western (D&RGW), and Western Pacific (WP) railroads between Chicago and Oakland, California, for a decade between 1939 and 1949, before being replaced by the famed California Zephyr.
The ExpositionFlyer was a passenger train jointly operated by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q), Denver & Rio Grande Western (D&RGW), and Western...
railroad's ExpositionFlyer rammed into the Advance Flyer, which had made an unscheduled stop to check its running gear. The ExpositionFlyer had been coming...
Railroad launched the ExpositionFlyer passenger service between Chicago and Oakland, named for the Golden Gate International Exposition. The adventurer and...
the station was the site of a collision between the CB&Q's ExpositionFlyer and Advance Flyer. On April 26, 2014, a memorial entitled Tragedy to Triumph...
Western Pacific passenger train but the railroad had a few others: ExpositionFlyer (Chicago to Oakland in conjunction with the Chicago, Burlington and...
Zephyr.: 50 The Zephyr joined four other trains on the route: the ExpositionFlyer, Denver Zephyr, Ak-Sar-Ben, and Fast Mail. On-board services included...
service (Oakland-Salt Lake City-Denver-Chicago) was provided by the ExpositionFlyer 1939 to 1949 and its successor, the California Zephyr 1949 to 1970...
It was the last stop of the original California Zephyr, and earlier ExpositionFlyer. The station closed in 1970 with the end of the service. The rails...
Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Advance Flyer, stopped in the station, is rammed by the railroad's ExpositionFlyer. 45 killed, more than 100 injured. May...
riding from New York City to Chicago in the cab of the locomotive The ExpositionFlyer, he wrote his first railroad story, "A Thousand Miles in a Night" for...
Western Pacific Railroads had replaced their heavyweight Chicago-Oakland ExpositionFlyer with a new streamlined California Zephyr carrying Vista-domes in 1949...
Wagonmaster' Schmitz, Jim Anderson, and Hardy Holm. Bachenberg's The ExpositionFlyer features folk music. Anderson hosted Another Blue Monday in the 1980s...
Illinois, when the Burlington Railroad's "ExpositionFlyer" crashed at 1:06 pm (CST) into the same line's "Advance Flyer", which had stalled after an earlier...
Conneaut Lake Park was founded in 1892 as Exposition Park by Col. Frank Mantor as a permanent fairground and exposition for livestock, machinery, and industrial...
Glider on over 700 flights, results lead directly to the construction of the Flyer. February 4 - First balloon flight in Antarctica when Robert Falcon Scott...
into the heavily contrasting "Terrapin Flyer" segment. VI. "Terrapin Flyer" (Hart, Kreutzmann) "Terrapin Flyer" is a fast section heavily featuring percussion...
Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; although much smaller wooden wheels of similar idea predate...
The Valley Flyer was a short-lived named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The all-heavyweight, "semi-streamlined" train ran...
Family Entertainment. Kentucky Kingdom has five roller coasters: Kentucky Flyer, Lightning Run, Roller Skater, Storm Chaser, and Thunder Run. The park has...
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