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Built by the Budd Company with a 1,000 H.P. 567 diesel engine built by General Motors' Electro Motive Division, #9908 was 80' long and weighed 202,000 lbs. It was the last of the early "Zephyr" trains in which the car body housed the engine and doubled as a mail-baggage car. This unit originally powered the "General Pershing Zephyr" on fast runs from St. Louis to Kansas City and was the last shovel-nosed engine in service. It was donated in 1966 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
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