Product Features and Details
Prototype: triple unit (ABB) of the Diesel Locomotive EMD F 7 with 6 streamliner passenger cars of the U.S. railway company Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT & SF). The train reversed under the name "Super Chief" between Chicago (IL) and Los Angeles (CA). Operation number 305
Model: The locomotive comes with an mfx digital decoder and extensive sound functions. The locomotive in the A-unit and a B unit. The 2 axles powered. Traction tires. The headlights will work in conventional operation, digitally. Mars light separately switchable. Side number boards and marker lights illuminated, digitally. The headlights are maintenance-free warm white light emitting diodes (LED). Cab interior details. Permanent drawbar between the locomotive units. Current-conducting coupling. Separately applied metal grab irons. All of the cars have factory-installed LED interior lighting can be controlled digitally. The interior lighting is powered through a continuous electrical connection through the entire train. All of the cars with separable power leading couplings. Final car with marker lights. Total length of the train about 205 cm.
Highlights: Limited to 1,500 pieces! With numbered certificate of authenticity. Lighting with warm white LEDs. Lighted number boards and marker lights. Mars light. Cab interior details. Current-conducting couplings. All of the cars have factory-installed interior LED lighting. Final car with marker lights.
"the train of the Stars" - The Super Chief. When the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1936 its new "Streamliner" train "City of Los Angeles" (Chicago - Los Angeles) was starting, had countered the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) already on 12 May 1936 with a private luxury train, the "Super Chief". This first-ever "Super Chief" was initially made ??of heavy Pullman car, because the new streamlined stainless steel lightweight construction trailer were still at the Budd Company in construction. At the same time, the new super train should be considered by also aerofoil shaped new diesel locomotives. In May 1937 it was finally time Budd presented a "Streamliner" train as a Pullman sleeper, unrivaled in style, design and luxury. The well-known designer Sterling McDonald brought in the interiors, the long-standing relationship between the web and the Indians of the Southwest expression. Whenever possible McDonald used authentic Native American colors such as turquoise and copper, patterns and even authentic murals and paintings. He also integrated as an ornament a combination of rare and exotic woods such as ebony, teak, satinwood, bubinga and Makassar, which gave the Super Chief an added touch of extravagant elegance. A new train required course, new elegant locomotives which were delivered at the same time General Motors EMD in the form of the diesel model E-1 with streamlined stem. First came here a new color scheme in red, yellow and silver for use - later known as the "Warbonnet" design called, which should symbolize the hair of an Indian with waving feathers. Even before the scheduled start of the new Super Chiefs one to today unmatched speed record at the Santa Fe was reached on a test drive: the 3584.5 km long route Chicago - Los Angeles, he put it on freshly renewed tracks in 36 hours and 20 minutes with an average speed of 97 km / h and a top speed of 160 km / h back. The regularly scheduled travel time was so 39 hrs and 45 mins Quick, the supplementary charge Super Chief has developed into a very exclusive and super-comfortable commuter for Hollywood greats who commuted between New York's Broadway and Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and up / down Chicago indulged in the luxury Prestigezug of Santa Fe. As a "Who's Who" in Hollywood to read the list of passengers, which, inter alia, Frank Sinatra, Zero Mostel, Janet Leigh, Ella Fitzgerald Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Gloria Swanson, Alan Ladd, Vincent Price, Margaret Truman and many others included. The special attraction of the train was of course prepared by top chefs in the five-star meals as well as his other first-class services. In addition to engine drivers, train conductors and brakemen ensured sleeping car, Porter, dining car stewards, waiters, cooks, bartenders, lounge attendants, hairdressers and other service personnel along with two cleaning crews and maintenance teams for the benefit of passengers. From the early 1950s until the second half of the 1960s resulted in the well-known diesel F7 series - also in the "Warbonnet" design - the Super Chief. By the end of passenger trains in Santa Fe on 1 May 1971 was able to maintain its extremely high quality of service the train. After that, the state took over the Amtrak passenger trains in the U.S. and took a further three years the legendary name. As a result of too poor quality service in the Amtrak-directed, however, the Santa Fe prohibited the further use of the name. Thus then the train ran first as Southwest Limited and a compromise between Amtrak and Santa Fe today as Southwest Chief.
