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This 8 x 10 inch black and white photo pictures the first Zephyr passenger train along with twenty people and one donkey wearing a sign that reads “Zeph mascot of the first Zephyron – World-record-non-stop run Denver to Chicago May 26, 1934”.
This image is owned by the High Plains Historical Society and Museum and published by the McCook Public Library. They worked in partnership to digitize photographic images from the historical society’s collection. These images document early growth of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in McCook, Nebraska, and the surrounding area. The collection spans a time period from the early 1880s through the 1960s.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
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