SANTA FE "SUPER CHIEF" FULL EIGHT CAR SET HO SCALE 9001-9008 / STORE DISPLAY

Description: WALTHERS HO Scale Ready-To-Run" SUPER CHIEF " series in the YELLOW SLEEVESThis is the INDIAN NAME SERIES of cars MFG part number 932-9001 thru 932-9008 This is the FULL EIGHT CAR SETSTORE DISPLAY items with some run time on the STORE DISPLAY LAYOUT THE BOXES are there and show some shelf wear and so do the YELLOW SLEEVES SANTA FE " SUPER CHIEF "MFG part # 932-9001 BUDD "PINE" Series 10-6 SLEEPER932-9002 BUDD 73' BAGGAGE Car932-9003 PULLMAN 36 Seat DINER932-9004 PULLMAN 29-Seat DORMATORY LOUNGE932-9005 PULLMAN 4-4-2 "INDIAN" SLEEPER932-9006 PULLMAN PLEASURE DOME932-9007 BUDD 63' RAILWAY POST OFFICE932-9008 PULLMAN "VISTA' OBSERVATION - LOUNGE A Red and Silver lightning bolt flashes across the desert floor as Santa Fe's SUPER CHIEF streaks by. Offering the finest, fastest daily service between Chiago and Los Angles, the train was a favorite with celebrities and the rich and powerful. Now, Santa Fe's flagship rolls once more in these authentic HO Scale models, based on car assigned to the train in the mid-1950's. With all the feature found on Walthers passenger cars, you can model the complete consist with these products Car Features:Accurately scaled from engineering drawingsCrisp detailed, realistic lettering, matched to prototype photographsRealistic satin paint finish, great for weatheringGreat for weathering with chalks or airbrushStandard Draft gear BoxDetailed truck side framesLow-friction, nonmagnetic, needlepoint metal axles, no lubrication required Decal Sheets are in the boxThis is the Indian named car series THIS IS STORE LAYOUT DISPLAY IN THE BOXESIt is part of the Yellow Sleeve " SUPER CHIEF " Series The Super Chief (Nos. 17 and 18) was the first diesel-electric powered cross-country passenger train in America. [1] The train eclipsed the Chief as Santa Fe's standard bearer. The extra-fare ($10) Super Chief left Dearborn Station in Chicago for its first trip on May 12, 1936. The Chief was a long-distance named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. The Santa Fe initiated the Chief in 1926 to supplement the California Limited. In 1936 the Super Chief was introduced, soon eclipsing the Chief as the standard bearer of the Santa Fe. The Chief was discontinued in 1968 due to high operating costs, competition from airlines, and the loss of Postal Office contracts. Amtrak revived the Chief for three months in the summer of 1972 as a second daily Chicago–Los Angeles train (numbers 19 & 20). It complemented the combined Super Chief/El Capitan (numbers 3 & 4), running over the same route. Today, the Southwest Chief remains the only train serving the former route of the Chief. HistoryIn 1926 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurated the all-Pullman, extra-fare Chief as a supplement to the California Limited between Chicago and Los Angeles.From 1948 to 1967 the Chief provided a connection at Chicago with the Pennsylvania Railroad's all-Pullman overnight Broadway Limited to Philadelphia and New York as well as the New York Central's 20th Century Limited / New England States to New York and Boston. The Chief left Chicago at 1.30pm from 1948 and at 10am from 1954 on an accelerated 37hr service with connecting sleepers from the 20th Limited and Broadway Limited (carried on the evening Super Chief in 1954-58, as a one-hour transfer between the Century's arrival and the Chief's departure was too tight for a through-car transfer) for Los Angeles and also Kansas City, Denver and Phoenix. Reaching Los Angeles before midnight the following day, the Chief was the only US train offering one night transit Chicago-Los Angeles westbound from 1954 and two night, transcontinental travel from NY to Los Angeles. The Chief was inaugurated as an all-Pullman limited train to supplement the road's California Limited, with a surcharge of USD $10.00 for an end-to-end trip. The heavyweight began its first run from both ends of the line, simultaneously, on November 14, 1926, scheduled 63 hours each way between Chicago and Los Angeles, five hours faster than the California Limited. (The Overland Limited (Union Pacific), Los Angeles Limited (Union Pacific) and Golden State Limited (Rock Island Railroad and Southern Pacific) began their extra-fare 63-hour schedules between Chicago and California the same day.)The Chief was a success, dubbed "Extra Fast-Extra Fine-Extra Fare" though it failed to relieve traffic on the California Limited. The Chief became famous as a "rolling boudoir" for film stars and Hollywood executives. In combination with the 20th Century Limited, the Chief was a favored mode of transcontinental travel for Hollywood. The stars and executives generally remained in their private room cars. Most of the Chief's patrons were middle class tourists or businessmen. In 1954, the Chief improved its schedule to 37 hours, equal to its cousins the Super Chief and El Capitan, and would ultimately drop the extra fare requirement as well. The quality of dining, drinking and sleeping car comfort The Chief offered at a substantial price was far superior to later Amtrak trains. The Chief, leaving Chicago in the morning, ran through to Los Angeles in 2 days and 1 night. The Super Chief passed through Kansas and Missouri at night, leaving Chicago in the evening and running through two nights with the La Junta-Raton Pass Colorado section in daylight, arriving in Los Angeles in the morning. The last 60-mile run through the Los Angeles suburbs was slow, and many passengers concluded the trip unnoticed at San Bernardino or Pasadena.The Chief would have been the "crown jewel" of most railroads' passenger fleets. But it did not survive the national decline in passenger demand, due to the faster transport provided by the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 which overcame the airlines' previous inferior eight-hour Los Angeles-Chicago flights on propeller DC-6s, DC-7s and Constellations at 300 mph (480 km/h), only 3 miles high with a turbulent and dangerous crossing of the Grand Canyon. Ironically, fear of the Grand Canyon kept many stars on the Chief in the 1950s and early 1960s. However, the impact of jet aircraft; the exorbitant cost of train crew (who operated under old union rules of a day's pay for each 150 miles traveled while the Chief traveled 450 miles every 8 hours) and the loss in 1967 of most US rail companies' contracts for carriage of first class US mail Postal Department created a crisis for all US railroads. Santa Fe recommended that all but its Super Chief, San Francisco Chief, Texas Chief and San Diegans be discontinued. In particular, Santa Fe informed the Interstate Commerce Commission that it could no longer afford to run four daily Chicago-California services. To Santa Fe's shock, the ICC ruled that the all-stops, common carrier Grand Canyon be continued rather than the Chief, which made its last run on May 15, 1968. The Grand Canyon was somewhat upgraded, leaving Chicago at 9 am on a 45-hour run to Los Angeles. The San Francisco Chief was rescheduled into the Chief's 10 am departure slot out of Chicago, running on the different Amarillo/Belen Cutoff route but offering 44-hour transit to Los Angeles or 41.5 hours to a shuttle transfer from San Bernardino or Bakersfield.Equipment used:A typical heavyweight Chief consist in Winter, 1937:4-6-4 "Hudson"-type Steam Locomotive #3451Express Mail #2041Railway Post Office #63Baggage-Club-Lounge #1304 Chief ManakajaLounge General Carr (10 sections, likely utilized as crew Dormitory space)Fred Harvey Company Diner #1472Sleeper Glen Ewen (6 compartments, 3 drawing rooms)Sleeper Laurel Wood (8 sections, 2 compartments, 1 drawing room)Sleeper-Observation-Lounge Crystal Bay (3 compartments, 2 drawing rooms)A typical "mixed" Chief consist as of January 31, 1938 (the Chief regularly included heavyweight head-end cars in its consist, even into the late 1940s): 4-6-4 "Hudson"-type Steam Locomotive #3460 (also known as the "Blue Goose")Railway Post Office #79 (heavyweight)Baggage #1894 (heavyweight)Baggage-Buffet-Lounge #1380 San Miguel (also included a barber shop)Sleeper Otowi (17 roomettes)Sleeper Ganado (14 sections)Sleeper Toreva (8 sections, 2 compartments, 2 double bedrooms)Sleeper Mankoweap (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 Dbl. Bdrm.)Dormitory-Club-Lounge #1373 TesuqueFred Harvey Company Diner #1477Sleeper Mohave (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 double bedrooms)Sleeper Sinyala (8 sections, 2 compartments, 2 double bedrooms)Sleeper-Observation-Lounge Betahtakin (4 drawing rooms, 1 double bedroom)Transcontinental Sleeping Car Service was inaugurated in Spring 1946, and the Chief began regularly carrying three such cars in its consist: two originating in New York City, and the other in Washington, D.C. (most often these were smooth-sided cars painted two-tone Pullman grey). By the following summer, the Chief had retired all of its steam-driven motive power and was usually pulled behind A-B-B-A sets of EMD FT locomotives or A-B-A sets of the new ALCO PAs). The following is a typical all-lightweight Chief consist as of late 1947: ALCO PA Locomotive #53LALCO PB Locomotive #53AALCO PA Locomotive #53BBaggage #3452Railway Post Office #88Baggage #3438Baggage-Buffet-Lounge #1381 San Marcial (also included a barber shop)Sleeper Maito (17 roomettes)Sleeper Verde Valley (6 sections, 6 roomettes, 4 double bedrooms)Sleeper Imperial Park (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 double bedrooms)Sleeper Tapacipa (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 double bedrooms)Dormitory-Club-Lounge #1372 PicurisFred Harvey Company Diner #1497Sleeper Kayenta (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 double bedrooms)Sleeper Sinyala (8 sections, 2 compartments, 2 double bedrooms)Sleeper Tolani (8 sections, 2 compartments, 2 double bedrooms)Sleeper-Observation-Lounge Biltabito (4 drawing rooms, 1 double bedroom) EMD F7-led San Francisco Chief crossing the Muir Trestle near Martinez, California in the 1950sA typical Chief consist in the mid-1950s (note the absence of an observation car, which was eliminated as per Santa Fe policy): EMD F7A Locomotive #46CEMD F7B Locomotive #46BEMD F3B Locomotive #19BEMD F7B Locomotive #301AEMD F7A Locomotive #301LBaggage #3657Baggage #3442Baggage-Dormitory #1381"Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2938"Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2883"Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2909Lunch Counter-Diner #1568"Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2848"Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2831"Big Dome"-Lounge #509Fred Harvey Company Diner #1491Sleeper Blue Island (10 roomettes, 2 compartments, 3 double bedrooms)*Sleeper Pine Dale (10 roomettes, 6 double bedrooms)Sleeper Palm Star (10 roomettes, 6 double bedrooms)Sleeper Citrus Valley (6 sections, 6 roomettes, 4 double bedrooms) (ran from Chicago, Illinois — Denver, Colorado; switched out at La Junta, Colorado).Sleeper Estancia Valley (6 sections, 6 roomettes, 4 double bedrooms) (ran from Denver, Colorado — Los Angeles, California; switched in at La Junta, Colorado).*NOTE: The nineteen "10-2-3" sleepers in the Blue series had a floorplan configuration unique to the Santa Fe. VERY HARD TO FIND these complete and in EXCELLANT CONDITIONTHIS SET CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH OTHER ITEMS THE BOX IS VERY LARGE ALREADY The item is NEW in the original box with the YELLOW SLEEVES from old stock used on the STORE DISPLAY LAYOUT We do combine shipping on multiple purchases. If you do a Buy It Now the transaction requires immediate payment for each item separately. What you need to do is put it in the shopping cart and then when you go to checkout it will recalculate the shipping and combine the items for you. If you pay first I am unable to make any adjustment because ebay has then taken its fees on the shipping as well. If you have a concern message me and I can work something out for you. THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED Item The item is NEW in the original box from old stock PERSONAL INVENTORY: Many of these unique items are from my personal inventory which was accumulated over the years. They are hard to part with but due to downsizing in retirement they too are looking for a good home which can appreciate and enjoy them. STORE INVENTORY: Having discontinued my Hobby Store and left frigid “Minne-Snow-Da” I have relocated and retired to the warmer part of the country, Down to Sunny TEXAS. I will be Liquidating the remaining stock. I will be listing items over the next year or so clearing them out. Please see the photos we take actual photos of each item Most of these items are New in the box removed only to take photos of them.

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Location: Van, Texas

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