The term "Zephyr" can refer to: a wind, usually the west wind Zephyrus, one of the Anemoi and the Greek god of the west wind Zephyr, Ontario, a place north of Toronto Zephyr protocol for instant messaging Zephyr (band), a rock band; also Ben Zephyr, another rock band "The Zephyr Song", a song by the band Red Hot Chili Peppers on the album By the Way Zephyr (chess), a chess engine Lincoln Zephyr, an automobile Ader Avion II, an early aircraft de ...

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Lincoln Zephyr, Lincoln Zephyr - 1935, Lincoln Zephyr - 2006, Lincoln Zephyr - External link

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The Lincoln Zephyr was originally produced from model year 1936 through 1942. It was initially offered for sale in November 1935. The car was available as a coupe or a sedan and a convertible was added after the first model year. The name was discontinued due to the switch to war-related production during World War II, and not revived by Lincoln after the war. The post-war Lincolns were the continuation of the pre-war Zephyr. The Lincoln Continental was developed from the Lincoln Zephyr, prototypes built from the 1939 Lincoln Zephyr and production versions based o ...

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Lincoln Zephyr, Lincoln Zephyr - 1935, Lincoln Zephyr - 2006, Lincoln Zephyr - External link

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Zephyr is a graffiti artist from New York City. He began creating graffiti in 1975 and first signed using the name "Zephyr" in 1977. From the end of 1983 to the beginning of 1984, his work was featured, along with the works of other graffiti artists, in an exhibit in the Netherlands. Much of Zephyr's original work was applied on trains. Zephyr's artwork has appeared in several music videos including the likes of Avril Lavinge, Beyonce and Justin Timberlake. He was also featured as himself in the l ...

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The California Zephyr is a 2,438-mile (3924-km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Southwestern United States. It runs from Chicago, Illinois in the east to Emeryville, California in the west, passing through the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. This route is one of the longest and most scenic routes run by Amtrak. Before Amtrak commenced operation, California Zephyr (the CZ, or "Silver Lady") was a passenger train operated jointly by th ...

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Zephyr is a small community in Durham Region, in Uxbridge Township Ontario Canada located northwest of the former town of Uxbridge. Zephyr is located north of the Oak Ridges Moraine and is accessed with roads linking to Uxbridge and Udora and linking Mount Albert Road and to Oakwood and Lindsay. Other roads include Ravenshoe Road to located about 4 km the north and Lake Ridge Road to the east and Davis Drive further south. The downtown streets include John and Dafoe Streets. The nearest superhighway is Highway 404 to the southwest loc ...

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• Zephyr Ontario - Nearest places
• Zephyr Ontario - Geography and Information
• Zephyr Ontario - Other
• Zephyr Ontario - History

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Zephyr was a blues-based hard rock band formed in 1968 in Denver, Colorado by guitarist Tommy Bolin, keyboardist John Faris, David Givens on bass guitar, Robbie Chamberlain on drums and Candy Givens on vocals. Although the Janis Joplin vocal stylings of Candy Givens was originally the focal point for the band, it was the flashy guitar work of Tommy Bolin that the band is best remembered for. After Bolin left to form Energy, he was replaced by Jock Bartley, however the initial impetu ...

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Created at MIT, as part of Project Athena, Zephyr was designed as an instant messenger protocol and application-suite with a heavy Unix background. Using the "do one thing, do it well" philosophy of Unix, it was made up of several separate programs working together to make a complete messaging system. Zephyr is still in use today at a few university environments such as Carnegie Mellon, Iowa State, Stanford University, University of Maryland, College Park, and MIT. It has been largely replaced by modern and more po ...

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The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (AAR reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington or as the Q, the railroad served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Its primary connections included Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver. Because of this extensive tracking in the mountain states the Q used the slogan ...

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• Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad - History
• Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad - The Burlington Zephyrs
• Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad - Innovations

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The Western Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark WP) was a Class I railroad in the United States. It is now part of Union Pacific Railroad (UP). Western Pacific Railroad - History. Founded in 1903, the Western Pacific Railroad was built as a portion of the Gould family's efforts to create a transcontinental railroad in the late 19th and early 20th century. One of the American West’s most popular railroads, the WP attracted rail enthusiasts from around the world. From 1910 to 1982, its ...

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WMTI (Martini 106.1) is a hybrid Smooth jazz/Adult standards station serving the New Orleans area. The Citadel Broadcasting Corporation outlet broadcasts at 106.1MHz with a ERP of 28kw, and is licensed to Picayune, Mississippi. WKSY - History. In 1991, the station adopted a Top 40 Rock format as Z106.1, New Orleans' Untamed Radio. However, this station is most remembered for what it became in 1992: 106.1 the Zephyr. The Zephyr was the first true commercial alternative station in ...

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The Chicago Bulls are a National Basketball Association team based in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Bulls - Franchise history. Chicago Bulls - Early years. The Chicago Bulls are actually the third NBA team in Chicago, after the Packers/Zephyrs (now the Washington Wizards) and the Stags (1946-1950). The team began play for the 1966-67 season, and immediately posted the best record by an expansion team in NBA history, qualifying for the playoffs. Over the next few years, the Bulls as ...

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• Chicago Bulls - 1990s and their first championship three-peat
• Chicago Bulls - Return of Jordan and another three-peat
• Chicago Bulls - A dramatic dismantling
• Chicago Bulls - Five difficult years
• Chicago Bulls - Improvement
• Chicago Bulls - Players of Note
• Chicago Bulls - Basketball Hall of Famers
• Chicago Bulls - Not to be forgotten
• Chicago Bulls - Retired numbers

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Before Amtrak operated a train with this name, the California Zephyr was operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from Chicago to Denver, Colorado, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad between Denver and Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to San Francisco. Trains ran with cars of mixed ownership; cars cycled in and out of the consists for service, repairs, and varying passenger loads with the seasons. This train was the first in the nation to use Vista Dome cars. The ...

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California Zephyr, California Zephyr - The pre-Amtrak California Zephyr, California Zephyr - Equipment used, California Zephyr - Timeline, California Zephyr - Communities served, California Zephyr - Station stops

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At the time when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad had become part of the Burlington Northern Railroad merger, Amtrak, in its first year of operation, 1971, had decided to continue on with the two of the trains remaining from the service between Chicago and Denver, the California Zephyr and the Denver Zephyr. Eventually, Amtrak made the decision to scale back its service to only one train on the Chicago to Denver route, eliminating the Denver Zephyr altogether. It should be noted that on Amtrak's first d ...

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Denver Zephyr, Denver Zephyr - History

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From east to west, the communities with regular station stops on this train included: Chicago, Illinois Galesburg, Illinois Burlington, Iowa Ottumwa, Iowa Osceola, Iowa Creston, Iowa Omaha, Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska Hastings, Nebraska McCook, Nebraska Denver, Colorado (where the train was handed off from the CB&Q to the DRGW) Glenwood Springs, Colorado Grand Junction, Colorado Helper, Utah Provo, Uta ...

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California Zephyr, California Zephyr - The pre-Amtrak California Zephyr, California Zephyr - Equipment used, California Zephyr - Timeline, California Zephyr - Communities served, California Zephyr - Station stops

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The Zephyr's power (leading) car was numbered 9900, the baggage-coach combine car was numbered 505, and the coach-observation was numbered 570. The trainset was placed in regular service between Kansas City, Missouri, Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, on November 11, 1934, replacing a pair of steam locomotives and six heavyweight passenger cars. The Zephyr replaced a train weighing up to eight times as much. By June 1935, it proved popular enough to add a fourth car to the train's regular configuration, providing additional coach se ...

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Pioneer Zephyr, Pioneer Zephyr - Concept and construction, Pioneer Zephyr - Promotion: Dawn-to-Dusk dash, Pioneer Zephyr - Regular revenue service, Pioneer Zephyr - Use in film, Pioneer Zephyr - Legacy: Preservation and static display and namesakes, Pioneer Zephyr - Models of the Pioneer Zephyr

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Press publicity had apparently first coined the term "Silver Streak". The Pioneer Zephyr's famous Denver-Chicago dash served as the inspiration for the 1934 film Silver Streak starring Charles Starrett. In that story, the crew was racing to the Boulder Dam construction site with an iron lung, with only moments to spare. The original Zephyr trainset was used for the exterior shots in the film, while interior scenes were filmed on a soundstage in Hollywood. For the film, the "Burlington Route" nameplate on the train's nose wa ...

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Pioneer Zephyr, Pioneer Zephyr - Concept and construction, Pioneer Zephyr - Promotion: Dawn-to-Dusk dash, Pioneer Zephyr - Regular revenue service, Pioneer Zephyr - Use in film, Pioneer Zephyr - Legacy: Preservation and static display and namesakes, Pioneer Zephyr - Models of the Pioneer Zephyr

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In the early 1930s, the U.S. was in the depths of the Great Depression. Without the money to purchase new goods, freight trains weren't hauling as much as they had in the previous decade. People who couldn't buy goods also couldn't afford to travel to the extent that they had before, so passenger revenues were also down. Even if they did have the money to travel, the equipment that railroads were using to carry passengers hadn't changed much since the middle of the 19th century. Railroads needed a way to re-energize the tra ...

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Pioneer Zephyr, Pioneer Zephyr - Concept and construction, Pioneer Zephyr - Promotion: Dawn-to-Dusk dash, Pioneer Zephyr - Regular revenue service, Pioneer Zephyr - Use in film, Pioneer Zephyr - Legacy: Preservation and static display and namesakes, Pioneer Zephyr - Models of the Pioneer Zephyr

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On May 26, 1960, the 26th anniversary of the "Dawn-to-Dusk" dash, the original Pioneer Zephyr trainset (car numbers 9900, 505 and 570) was donated to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Car number 500, which operated with the train starting in 1938, went along with Mark Twain Zephyr trainset 9903 to a party in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for static display in a town park, but plans for the train's display did not work out; car 500 and the Mark Twain Zephyr are curren ...

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Pioneer Zephyr, Pioneer Zephyr - Concept and construction, Pioneer Zephyr - Promotion: Dawn-to-Dusk dash, Pioneer Zephyr - Regular revenue service, Pioneer Zephyr - Use in film, Pioneer Zephyr - Legacy: Preservation and static display and namesakes, Pioneer Zephyr - Models of the Pioneer Zephyr

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To catch the public's attention, however, this train wasn't simply rolled out of the factory for some dignitary to smash a bottle of champagne on its nose; it would make a dash from one end of the CB&Q, in Denver, to the other in Chicago. The railroad spared no expense in planning the operations. All other trains along the Zephyr's route were diverted to sidings and the turnouts were spiked into the proper alignment for the Zephyr's run. Track and maintenance of way workers checked every single spike and bolt along the trai ...

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Pioneer Zephyr, Pioneer Zephyr - Concept and construction, Pioneer Zephyr - Promotion: Dawn-to-Dusk dash, Pioneer Zephyr - Regular revenue service, Pioneer Zephyr - Use in film, Pioneer Zephyr - Legacy: Preservation and static display and namesakes, Pioneer Zephyr - Models of the Pioneer Zephyr

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