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The Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society presents:
LYNCHBURG RAIL DAY
2012
August 11, 2012 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday,
BOONSBORO RURITAN CLUB, LYNCHBURG, VA
Children 12/under free w/paying adult
TRAIN EXHIBITS, SLIDE SHOW, AND OPERATING MODEL LA
YOUTS ON DISPLA
Model train items & Railroad Memorabilia with Vendors from around the Region. Sales tables available to the general public,
BARGAIN MART
advance registration/payment required. 8 foot tables: $33.00 each, 6 foot tables: $25.00 each, Table Size Subject To Availability
“WHITE ELEPHANT” TABLE Available to train show attendees: The Blue Ridge Chapter N.R.H.S. will sellyour model trains and Railroad Memorabilia for a 20% commission, MAKE MONEY WHILE YOU BROWSE THE SHOW.
RAILROAD MODEL/PHOTOGRAPHY
EXPOSITION/CONTEST Contests open to public, Information: contact Fred Mayer (434-384-2773)
barbalin@comcast.net
For more train show information and to rent Vendor Tables contact:
Barry Moorefield (434-821-2174 before 9 p.m.),
bmopar@verizon.net
John Tanner (434-525-1318),
flytrains@verizon.net
Norris Deyerle, (434-237-4912),
railcow@msn.com
Blue Ridge Chapter, N.R.H.S.,
P.O. Box 11731, Lynchburg, Va. 24506-1731 Website:
www.blueridgenrhs.org
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DOOR PRIZES AND FRESHLY PREPARED FOOD/BEVERAGES AVAILABLE
Admission: $6/person, Family admission: $10.
were an elegant tan, brown and rust combination. On a trial run on April 29, 1935, the
Comet covered the 43.8 miles from Providence to Boston in just 32.5 min- utes, reaching a peak speed of 109.1 m.p.h. Previous schedules for conven- tional trains carded 57 minutes for this trip. The train entered regular service between these two cities, making five round trips each weekday. On week- ends when maintenance was not need- ed, the Comet was used on charter trips, and at least once, the consist went as far west as New York’s 125th Street Station. The initial schedule allowed 44 min-
utes for the each trip, including a stop at Back Bay. An additional stop at Pawtucket was soon added on the same 44-minute end-to-end timing. This required the Comet to routinely hit 95 m.p.h. between the intermediate stops. In 1937 additional stops were added to most runs with relaxed sched- ules, although the first and last trips each day remained at 44 minutes. With the World War II increased pas- senger loads, the fixed capacity of the Comet became a problem, and it was reassigned to local services. The train ended its life as a local back on the Boston-Providence run. The Comet had some reliability prob-
lems, as would be expected for a first- of-a-kind train, so that the New Haven kept backup 1907 vintage 4-4-2 steam locomotives with two coaches in re- serve at both terminals. The railroad was in bankruptcy during most of this period, and the train had many new and unique features, exacerbating maintenance problems and further contributing to reduced availability. In spite of this, the Comet was considered to be a success, and ran for 16 years be- fore being scrapped in July, 1952. The Con-Cor Comet comes in the original paint scheme used for the train. The train has a bright royal band through the window and a darker blue below the floor line and on the trucks. The letter board and the sides below the windows are left in unpaint- ed aluminum. There is also a narrow vertical aluminum stripe on the ends running from a floor level New Haven script herald up to just below the head- light. All of this bare metal had an “en- gine-turned” surface (that fish scale
like finish of overlapping circular whorls, most notably applied to the nose cowl of Lindberg’s Spirit of St. Louis) protected by coats of clear lac- quer. The roof is a light gray that pho- tographs as being darker than the ad- jacent aluminum letter board. The Con-Cor Comet has smoothly applied paint and crisp lettering that looks very good. They did not reproduce the engine-turned finish and instead use an almost white roof that is distinctly lighter than the letter boards.
The Comet was repainted in 1941 in
a simpler scheme. Medium blue wide stripes rose from each side of the pilot and then curved back around the cab windows to a wide blue band from the roof line to the belt rail that ran the length of the train. The area above and below the blue bands was painted a sil- ver-gray. At about this time, the rail- road added a large rotating smoke jack on the steam generator exhaust simi- lar to those found on many diners. The Con-Cor Comet No. 1 power car
has a die-cast underbody that gives this unit a weight of 10.2 ounces. A fly- wheel equipped can motor drives both the front and the articulated truck in an arrangement like that on most diesel locomotive models. The powered trucks have RP-25 wheels and do not employ traction tires. The power car has a drawbar pull of 1.4 ounces. This JULY 2012
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