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| Last updated on August 8, 2025
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy’s Texas Zephyr, with Colorado & Southern-lettered E5 No. 9955 on the point, pauses at Pueblo on Jan. 23, 1966. The Burlington acquired control of the C&S in 1908, gaining a route from Denver to the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston, Texas, and a route from Denver north into Wyoming.
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Remember that the Texas Zephyr (running from Denver, Colorado to Dallas, Texas) operated by the Colorado & Southern Railway and the Fort Worth & Denver Railway (both subsidiaries of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad). As a result of it losing its U.S. Mail railway post contract, the Fort Worth & Denver abandoned all passenger service in 1967, the Texas Zephyr making its last run on September 10 of that year.
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No matter what railroad color and E5/E6 carried they were the sharpest passenger diesel locomotives around!!! OK , OK I hear you Alco PA folks a hollerin!
Let’s add that by the late 1960s, all of the EMD E5s had been traded into EMD and sent to Pielet Brothers Scrap so they could be cut up as they were old and obsolete. Fortunately CB&Q 9952A (Formerly 9911A) was acquired from the scrap yard by the Illinois Railroad Museum.
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