Editing Pioneer Zephyr (section)

==="Silver Streak" film===
{{main article|The Silver Streak}}
[[File:The Silver Streak 2.jpg|thumb|The [[film poster]] for ''The Silver Streak'']]

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 ''[[The Silver Streak]]'' starring [[Charles Starrett]].{{sfn|Johnston|Welsh|Schafer|2001|p=16}}{{sfn|Zimmermann|2004|p=40}} In that story, the crew was racing to the [[Boulder Dam]] construction site with an [[Negative pressure ventilator|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, California|Hollywood]]. For the film, the "Burlington Route" nameplate on the train's nose was replaced with one that read "Silver Streak".