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Con-Cor - Limited Edition Set #32 / 8515 - Passenger Train, Diesel, North American, Transition Era - Pennsylvania - 8-Unit

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N Scale - Con-Cor - Limited Edition Set #32 / 8515 - Passenger Train, Diesel, North American, Transition Era - Pennsylvania - 8-Unit
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Stock NumberLimited Edition Set #32 / 8515
Secondary Stock Number0001-008515
Tertiary Stock Number8515
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 NamePennsylvania (Details)
Reporting MarksPRR
Road or Reporting Number8-Unit
Paint Color(s)Tuscan Red, w. Yellow stripe
Print Color(s)Yellow
Coupler TypeRapido Hook
Coupler MountTruck-Mount
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
MultipackYes
Multipack Count8
Multipack ID Number0001-008515
Series NameLimited Edition Set
Series Release/Issue Number32
Release Date1994-09-01
Item CategoryPassenger Trains
Model TypeDiesel
Model SubtypeFairbanks-Morse
Model VarietyErie-Built 8-Unit Set
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era III: Transition (1939 - 1957)



Specific Item Information: Limited Edition Set #32 "Pennsylvania Special": 2 diesel locomotives with 6 heavyweight cars.

- 2 Con-Cor Fairbanks-Morse Erie-Built, one powered #9462, one dummy #9461. (Kato PA-1 mechanism with V-Line shell)
- 6 Rivarossi Heavyweight Passenger Cars:
+ RPO (U.S. Mail Combine) #5183
+ Baggage #9055
+ Coach #3515
+ Dining #7991
+Pullman "City of Newark"
+Observation "Philadelphia"
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 Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR) was an American Class I railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy," the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The PRR was the largest railroad by traffic and revenue in the U.S. for the first half of the twentieth century. Over the years, it acquired, merged with or owned part of at least 800 other rail lines and companies. At the end of 1925, it operated 10,515 miles of rail line; in the 1920s, it carried nearly three times the traffic as other railroads of comparable length, such as the Union Pacific or Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads. Its only formidable rival was the New York Central (NYC), which carried around three-quarters of PRR's ton-miles.

At one time, the PRR was the largest publicly traded corporation in the world, with a budget larger than that of the U.S. government and a workforce of about 250,000 people. The corporation still holds the record for the longest continuous dividend history: it paid out annual dividends to shareholders for more than 100 years in a row.

In 1968, PRR merged with rival NYC to form the Penn Central Transportation Company, which filed for bankruptcy within two years. The viable parts were transferred in 1976 to Conrail, which was itself broken up in 1999, with 58 percent of the system going to the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), including nearly all of the former PRR. Amtrak received the electrified segment east of Harrisburg.
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 2018-07-31 16:30:48. Last edited by Alain LM on 2020-05-30 12:32:42

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