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History of the New Haven Comet:
1935 - 1951 While the Union Pacific (M-10000) and Burlington Rt's Zephyr were zipping around on Western Rails in...
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History of the New Haven Comet:
1935 - 1951 While the Union Pacific (M-10000) and Burlington Rt's Zephyr were zipping around on Western Rails in 1934 and attracting huge attention from the public, the New Haven was quieting building a smilar train for use on the East Coast, on it's trackage between Boston and Providence. It debuted in 1935. The Comet owes much to airship design as it was designed and built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, a consortium of the US Goodyear Corp. and yjr German Zeppelin Airship company, with funds supplied by the U.S. Government via the depression Era " Works Progress Administation." The "Comet" was a light diesel-electric streamlined train using a novel design. It had an engine at either extremity so it was not necessary to turn the train at the end of each trip. Both engines operated simultaneously by a master control, and after the train completed the run, the engineer just walked to the other end of the train for the return journey. The car had a 3 car train designed to seat 160 passengers. In a test run of of Comet in April 1935 it hit a speed of 110.5 mph which was a record for any train in New England at that time. In its published timetable for the run between Boston and Providence (43.8 miles) the Comet's normal schedule was only 44 minutes. (With stops included.). Their were several paint schemes used on the Comet, we will be using the original paint scheme as introduced in 1935. We at Con-Cor are still doing research on this project and if you have any photos, or other information on this Famous train, please contact our office.
Stock Numbers:
0001-008735 "HO" 3 Car Comet Basic Set
0001-008736 "HO" Extra Coach(s) to extend above to 4, 5 or 6 car Train
0001-008737 "N" 3 Car Comet Basic Set
0001-008738 "N" Extra Coach(s) to extend above to 4, 5 or 6 car Train
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Trainbuff2 uploaded a new video
(8 months ago)
The Con-Cor HO PCC Car Model:  Con-Cor chose to model a "Pre-War" model of the PCC car as the Los Angeles PCC #3001 car has b...
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The Con-Cor HO PCC Car Model:  Con-Cor chose to model a "Pre-War" model of the PCC car as the Los Angeles PCC #3001 car has been preserved at the Orange Empire Railway Museum near Los Angles, this car was built in May 1937 and is still running and giving Tourists and Streetcar buffs a short ride at the Museum today, 71 years after it was first built ! The major difference between the "Pre-WW II" PCC and "Post-WWII" version was that those built after WW-II had the "Standee" windows above the side windows. Our model is of the "Pre-War II" car without the standee windows. Although some of the photos shown are of "Standee" cars where we could not find good color photos of that paint scheme on a Pre-War II car body. Please do not be confused, the only version of the PCC body we are making is the "Pre-War II" car as shown in the photo above of the Los Angeles car. While the PCC car was a "Standard Design" bureucrates in the individual cities that bought them had to add some "personal" touches, such as extra lights, wider Anticlimbers etc etc. We can not model each and every variation. So we chose to stick with the Los Angeles car which is typical in most details to the original PCC Car design. We wish to give a big THANK YOU to George L Huckaby, Custom Traxx, Inc. for helping us with this project and making various trips to the Museum to gather photos and do research on paint schemes.
Features * DCC Ready with NMRA 8 pin plug * Space for Speaker mount * All wheel drive * Powereful 5 pole motor * Interior with lighting * Working headlights, tail lights. * Authentic paint schemes * Runs on tight 9 inch radius * Motorman figure * "Next Car Light" (Where appropriate, see comments below)
** Next Car Light: Some (but not all) cities used what they called a "Next Car light". This was an extra Red light on the front of the PCC car which the motorman could turn on and off as needed. When turned on, it told the passengers waiting at the next stop, that this streetcar would not be stopping, either it was "full" or "out of service" and heading back to the car barn. ** Con-Cor is adding the "Next Car Light" to some of the cars were appropriate, but this fuction can only be accessed in "DCC" mode when you add a DCC decoder (not supplied with the model). And then the P-3 Function control can be used to turn the "Next Car Light" On or Off as it is traveling down the tracks.  Of the first 12 roadnames offered, only the Brooklyn; SF Muni; and Pacific Electric Roadnames will have a built in Next Car Light (Per Prototype). If you want to re-paint a model for your own Railway using the "Next Car Light" we suggest using the Brookyn car as that has the easiest paint scheme to re-paint.
Paint Schemes: Most cities had various paint schemes on their PCC cars over the years, we picked out the one for the following Cities we felt best represented the Paint Scheme that is the most well known.  We are offering these cars two ways, first version is fully Decorated with appropriate colors, Car Number, and Transit system logo (if it was used on the car, some cities did not put a logo on all cars.)
Note on Colors:  Very few color photos exist from the late '30s and '40s. Many that exist have faded from true colors. Plus many of the paints used were lead or cadmium based which are now outlawed, so we have matched paint colors as close as we can from all the information available and taken into account photos taken in shade, cloudy days fading of paint colors due to exposure to the sun, etc.  The 2nd group of numbers you will see listed below, are in the various city paint schemes, but no lettering is applied, so for those of you who might want to decal a car in your own lettering scheme.
Visit con-cor.com for complete details.
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Trainbuff2 uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
The HO Twin Headlight Zephyr is Con-Cor's new remodeling of the HO Pioneer Zephyr. The Zephyr was originally remodeled due to an accident and was a...
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The HO Twin Headlight Zephyr is Con-Cor's new remodeling of the HO Pioneer Zephyr. The Zephyr was originally remodeled due to an accident and was added the twin headlights. Please visit our website for more information www.con-cor.com
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Trainbuff2 uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
Pre-Orders: We will contact you by Email or Phone before shipping new item to re-confirm with you. You may Change, Modify or Cancel any "P...
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Pre-Orders: We will contact you by Email or Phone before shipping new item to re-confirm with you. You may Change, Modify or Cancel any "Pre-Order" at any time. But if we get sold out on an item before delivery due to heavy advance sales, having a "Pre-Order" on file with us will guarantee you will get yours. You will receive a printed confirmation in the U.S. Mail of your "Pre-Order in 7-10 working days after placing the order with us. If you do not receive written confirmation after 10 days please notify us immediately.  No deposit is required for a "Pre-Order", and we will not charge your credit card until we have the merchandise ready to ship and have re-confirmed with you on the phone or via Email. In fact, you do not even need to provide us with a Credit Card number when placing a "No Obligation Pre-Order". BUT we do need a "Daytime" phone number to call to verify your Pre-Order when items are ready to ship.. Is a "No Obligation Pre-Order" worthwhile? YES, for example we were sold out on Advance Orders on the new HO M-10000. Several people called us and said they had placed an order through a dealer, but the dealer never got their M-10000 for them. (a check of our records showed that the named dealers had never ordered any of the HO M-10000 models from us.) So, placing a "No Obligation Pre-Order" is a good insurance policy for you, to make sure that at least we have one of the models you want with your name on it here at the Con-Cor Warehouse when they arrive.
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