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Con-Cor - Limited Edition Set #31 / 8514 - Passenger Train, Diesel, North American, Transition Era - Burlington Northern - 8-Unit

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N Scale - Con-Cor - Limited Edition Set #31 / 8514 - Passenger Train, Diesel, North American, Transition Era - Burlington Northern - 8-Unit
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Stock NumberLimited Edition Set #31 / 8514
Secondary Stock Number0001-008514
Tertiary Stock Number8514
Original Retail Price$249.98
BrandCon-Cor
ManufacturerCon-Cor
Body StyleCon-Cor Box Set North American Prototype
Prototype VehiclePassenger Train, Diesel, North American, Transition Era (Details)
Road or Company NameBurlington Northern (Details)
Reporting MarksBN
Road or Reporting Number8-Unit
Paint Color(s)Green and Cream
Print Color(s)Yellow
Paint SchemeBN Executive
Coupler TypeRapido Hook
Coupler MountTruck-Mount
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
MultipackYes
Multipack Count8
Multipack ID Number0001-008514
Series NameLimited Edition Set
Series Release/Issue Number31
Release Date1994-02-01
Item CategoryPassenger Trains
Model TypeDiesel
Model SubtypeEMD
Model VarietyE8 8-Unit Set
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era III: Transition (1939 - 1957)



Specific Item Information: Limited Edition Set #31 "BN Executive Train": 2 diesel locomotives with 6 passenger cars (5 smoothside & 1 heavyweight).

- Diesel Locomotives E8A # BN-3 (powered), E8A # BN-4 (dummy)
- Baggage car # BNA 23 "Stampede Pass"
- Sleeper #BNA 21 "Jefferson Pass"
- Sleeper # BNA 22 "Stevens Pass"
- Diner / Dining car # BNA 10 "Como"
- Vista Dome car # BNA 27 "Glacier View"
- Heavyweight Observation car # BNA 7 "Kootenai River"

Set also contains:
- a Burlington Northern coffee stir stick
- a Burlington Northern napkin
- a BN cloth patch
Series Information: Con-Cor "Limited Edition Sets" or "Limited Edition Collector's Sets" were started after requests to 'custom paint' replicas of great passenger trains of the past. As these sets were very limited in quantity, many were sold out before they got to the retailer. While the quality of painting varied from time to time, they are a handsome addition to any collection and impressive on a layout.
With the exception of the first set, all were furnished in a wood-grained cardboard box with colored foam storage insert. For some sets, the manufacturer furnished additional cars or add-on sets.
The number of the set in the series is not printed on the box, but a listing was kept by Con-Cor and available as print-out in the most recent sets or on the (former) Con-Cor website.
Sets #1 to #13 were without stock number; stock numbers have been assigned and printed on the side label starting with set #14.

The wood-grained cardboard box has been used for other sets called "Special Edition Set" by Con-Cor, that only received a regular stock number, but were not accounted in the "Limited Edition Set" collection.
Prototype History:
The transition era (1939 - 1957) was the heyday for passenger rail. The industrial boom triggered by the second world war created tremendous capacity for production which was no longer needed for war production. The North American factories turned to consumer goods and services and the rail system was a major recipient of this ouput.

The interstate highways system as we know it now was still a thing of the future and long distance travel by highway was simply not practical and aircraft travel was still a luxury for the well-to-do. People traveled the country by rail and there was a huge variety of railroads and services available to the traveler. Innovation was constant, and the materials and machinery employed by the railroads was evolving as fast as the engineers could think of new things to entice the fickle consumer to ride a particular route or particular service.

This all came to an end when the automobile and airplane replaced the passenger train as the preferred vehicles of transportation in the 1960s.
Road Name History:
The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States railroad. It was a product of a March 2, 1970, merger of four major railroads - the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad - as well as a few small jointly owned subsidiaries owned by the four.

Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1996.

Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the Chicago and Aurora Railroad, a direct ancestor line of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, which lends Burlington to the names of various merger-produced successors.

Burlington Northern purchased the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on December 31, 1996 to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (later renamed BNSF Railway), which was owned by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation.*

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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.
Item created by: Alain LM on 2019-05-25 07:17:38. Last edited by Alain LM on 2020-05-30 12:31:02

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