CB&Q Burlington Route California Zephyr in Galesburg 11x17 FRAMED poster

Description

This portrait is restored from a 1940's postcard of the California Zephyr in Galesburg, Illinois. It is printed on matte cardstock photo paper with Canon inks guaranteed for 100 years without fading
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, known as the Burlington Route, was a midwestern railroad connecting Chicago, St. Louis and other midwestern industrial towns from its numerous agriculture markets down to Texas seaports. It began with the Aurora Branch’s charter of 1848 to extensions into Burlington, Iowa and Quincy, Illinois to become the “CB&Q”. Also known as the “Q”, it was famous for its fleet of Zephyr streamliners, modern and sleek stainless steel clad trainsets connecting midwestern cities and towns. The CB&Q merged with the Great Northern and Northern Pacific to form the Burlington Northern Railroad (today’s BNSF).
Galesburg today is still a major rail center for the BNSF and features several regional and long-distance Amtrak trains. Once a crossing point for Santa Fe and CB&Q’s western stations, they featured separate Amtrak passenger train stations until the early 2000s when the two legacy carriers finalized thier merger.
This poster comes framed in an 11x17 frame with solid plastic trim with a glass cover and we ship it, so it won't break in transit. Any watermark is only on website photos and not placed on our final prints.
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