Now Budd put the wheels in motion for the Dawn-to-Dusk Run. The Zephyr, he promised, would go from Denver to Chicago in 14 hours, nonstop. No locomotive had ever traveled more than 775 miles ...

Gliding through the Colorado Rockies, the "cruise ship on wheels" celebrated train travel ... truly belonged to the Burlington, two men named Budd, and to the fleet of trains that spearheaded ...