Con-Cor - 0001-008732 - Passenger Train, Zephyr, 1934 - Burlington Route - "Silver Streak"

Specific Item Information: Shortly after its maiden run, the Pioneer Zephyr was the star of the 1934 movie called The Silver Streak. (This is not the 1970's movie staring Gene Wilder. Many people are not aware of the original 1934 movie.)
Con-Cor has created a special, limited edition of the Pioneer Zephyr lettered for the "Silver Streak" as it appeared in the 1934 movie. This special edition set ALSO includes a special DVD copy of the 1934 movie produced for us by Emporium Pictures, a company that specializes in converting old movie titles to DVD.
All sets with matching DVD's will be numbered at the factory.

Model Information: Features:

• 5 pole motor w/ Flywheel drive
• Cab Interior
• Special material diaphram to connect the 3 cars together for prototypical appearance.
• Lighted Interior in cars #2 and #3 (The motor/drive is in the the lead car which was also the freight and Mail compartment on the original train)
• Directional Lighting
• PC board "DCC" ready, with 8 pin ready for sound installation if you choose.
• Modeler can add DCC decoder /and or Sound Unit of his own choosing if he so desires.
• Flush fit windows

DCC Information: 8-pin plug (Digitrax SDN144PS sound decoder sold separately by Con-Cor ref. 0001-006014

Road Name History: The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington or as the Q, the Burlington Route served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and also in New Mexico and Texas through subsidiaries Colorado and Southern Railway, Fort Worth and Denver Railway, and Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.[citation needed] Its primary connections included Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver. Because of this extensive trackage in the midwest and mountain states, the railroad used the advertising slogans "Everywhere West", "Way of the Zephyrs", and "The Way West". It merged into Burlington Northern in 1970.

In 1967, it reported 19,565 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 723 million passenger miles; corresponding totals for C&S were 1,100 and 10 and for FW&D were 1,466 and 13. At the end of the year CB&Q operated 8,538 route-miles, C&S operated 708 and FW&D operated 1362. (These totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.)

Information sourced from Wikipedia

Brand/Importer Information: Con-Cor has been in business since 1962. Many things have changed over time as originally they were a complete manufacturing operation in the USA and at one time had upwards of 45 employees. They not only designed the models,but they also built their own molds, did injection molding, painting, printing and packaging on their models.

Currently, most of their manufacturing has been moved overseas and now they import 90% of their products as totally finished goods, or in finished components. They only do some incidental manufacturing today within the USA.

Important Note: The Con-Cor product numbering can be very confusing. Please see here in the article how to properly enter Con-Cor stock numbers in the TroveStar database.