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The ''Sam Houston Zephyr'' was a named passenger train operated by the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad, a subsidiary of both the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. It was the first streamlined passenger train in Texas.〔http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/eqb18.html "Burlington-Rock Island Railroad," ''Handbook of Texas Online''〕 Inaugurated on October 1, 1936,〔 the year of the Texas centennial celebrations, the streamlined train was named for Texas hero Sam Houston. On its original schedule, the train ran from the Texas and Pacific station in Fort Worth to Union Station in Houston in exactly five hours, making only four intermediate stops in Dallas, Waxahachie, Corsicana, and Teague. The train was designated number 3 southbound, and number 4 northbound. Its chief competitor was the ''Sunbeam'', operated by the Texas and New Orleans Railroad (a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific) on a parallel route between Dallas and Houston. One of the original trainsets from the ''Twin Cities Zephyr'', number 9901, was transferred to begin this new route. While under the management of the Rock Island, ''Zephyr'' 9901 power car was destroyed by fire on December 19, 1944. The Rock Island did not maintain the train properly; the cause of the file was oil residue which poor maintenance failed to remove. Because equipment was needed to keep the busy line running, the Rock Island replaced its ''Texas Rocket'' with the new ''Twin Star Rocket'' in July 1945.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sam Houston Zephyr )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twin Star Rocket )〕 Like many other passenger trains that experienced declining revenues in the face of competition from automobiles and airplanes in the 1950s and 1960s, the ''Sam Houston Zephyr'' was discontinued in 1966.〔http://www.dallasrailwaymuseum.com/dallashistory.html "A Brief History of Railroads in Dallas," Dallas Railroad Museum〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam Houston Zephyr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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