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Pioneer Zephyr is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 23, 2005.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 1, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
March 23, 2005	Today's featured article	Main Page
July 14, 2007	Featured article review	Kept
August 26, 2023	Featured article review	Demoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 28, 2005. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that during the "dawn-to-dusk" publicity run for the CB&Q's Pioneer Zephyr on May 26 1934, the train reached a top speed of 112.5 mph (181 kph)?
Current status: Former featured article