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For the first time in decades, the gorgeous industrial design of the Nebraska Zephyr is on display at speed on the same rails it used to travel - Chicago to Omaha, NE. The Illinois Railway Museum provided the E5 engine (CB&Q 9911A) and the Nebraska Zephyr trainset, which made two roundtrips through Illinois on 9/22-23. As seen here, the E5 is going the maximum allowed speed of 79mph, but when the engine was built in 1940 its top speed was (and still is) 117mph - higher than the much touted 110mph "high speed rail" Amtrak routes being upgraded in Illinois and Michigan.
Also in the video are two of Amtrak's regional trains to Galesburg and Quincy, IL, as well as a westbound Eola - Tulsa BNSF freight train.