Multimedia | image
Map: CB&Q map of Chicago, 1880
This 1880 map centered on Chicago displays the early CB&Q railroad route.
This 1880 map centered on Chicago displays the early CB&Q railroad route.
Map of the “Great Republican Valley” showing Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road lands for sale in Nebraska (1879).
A spread from a Burlington Route brochure promoting train travel as a life-changing adventure.
A Burlington Route brochure promoting the new “Vista-Dome” coaches in 1955.
Franz Kebl photographed the propeller sled Schneespatz, used in Alfred Wegener’s 1930 Greenland expedition.