In 1948, the Federation for Railway Progress awarded the Burlington the Passenger Service Award for 1947. By the 1950s, the passenger rail business was suffering an irreversible decline.

Railroad dome cars are a gleaming symbol of postwar passenger train status. The streamliner era in North America bookended ...

One passenger train leaves Chicago’s Union ... In an October verdict, the latter declined to take action against the Burlington railroad or the crews of either train, instead charging everyone ...

In 1931 Ralph Budd, the recently appointed president of the Burlington Railway (and no relation to Edward), suspected that stainless steel was just the sort of injection that passenger rail travel ...