The Blue Bird was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Wabash Railroad and its successor the Norfolk and Western Railway between Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri.

[1]: 143 The Wabash relaunched the Blue Bird as a streamlined train on February 26, 1950, with all-new Budd Company "Vista-Dome" dome cars and E-unit diesel locomotives from Electro-Motive Division.

[2] Amenities on the new train included radio and "recorded musical programs"; coach passengers had access to the "Coffee Shop Club".

[4] The Norfolk and Western Railway leased the Wabash in 1964 but continued to operate the Blue Bird.

Intermediate stops included Englewood in Chicago, Forrest, Decatur, Taylorville, Litchfield and Granite City in Illinois, and the Wabash's Delmar Boulevard station in St. Louis itself.