New Haven Comet Train by Con-Cor

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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[UtahJazz1Fan]

you guys should make the union pacific forty niner or the city of San Francisco or city of Denver or even the city of los angles also you should make Santa Fe blue goose and the Rio Grande prospector or the Illinois central Green Diamond

[UtahJazz1Fan]

is it out yet

[5sider]

Best of luck on this latest offering. Hopefully we 'N' scalers won't be denied the opportunity to purchase the Comet as we were denied the Electroliner.