Mark Twain Zephyr Restoration

This streamliner is to be restored by the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad and will run in full operating condition!

https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2 ... -run-again

TREGO, Wis. — The opportunity may be coming to travel to Northwest Wisconsin and ride one of the first diesel-powered streamlined passenger trains.

In a Trains News Wire exclusive, the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad has announced it has purchased the Mark Twain Zephyr, one of nine trainsets built by Philadelphia’s Budd Co. for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy in 1934.

The shovelnose locomotive and three-car articulated trainset, along with an extra car, are in the process of being trucked to WGN’s Trego yards where the train will undergo a full restoration to operating condition.

Neat!

Somewhere, I have some pictures I took of the train when it sat parked at the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant in the early 1990s, taken from the fenceline.

Now, even the tracks there are gone, and the area where it was parked is now publically accessible as Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie.