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Video: Con-Cor HO scale Comet model passenger train
These short videos are an excellent way to see and hear the capabilities of new model offerings. MR should consider expanding the video format to demonstrate rolling stock and other features (such as signals, electronics, etc.).
Wish they would male the Mountain Rocket! Nice model.
Wish they would male the Mountain Rocket! Nice model.
That’s a pretty sweet ride…sounds pretty good too!
Beautiful model, but I was surprised when I read the review in MR to find out that $459.98 isn’t considered “big bucks”. This is the biggest problem with this hobby these days; everything is too expensive for the average person to afford. Unless I find something on eBay, I can’t have it.
Having read the September issue. Have you figured out the problem using the N.C.E. d.c.c. system? The reason I ask I have ordered The Comet, and I use a N.C.E. Power Cab, with a 5 amp Smart booster.
Having read the September issue. Have you figured out the problem using the N.C.E. d.c.c. system? The reason I ask I have ordered The Comet, and I use a N.C.E. Power Cab, with a 5 amp Smart booster.
…yep I miss my $1.98 Athearn blue box kits. Oh yeah thats right it isn’t 1971 anymore…
…yep I miss my $1.98 Athearn blue box kits. Oh yeah thats right it isn’t 1971 anymore…
Compared to the only other model ever released for “The Comet”, which was the $1,500 Railworks version in brass, the Con-Cor one is not big bucks at all.
Also, it’s got to be a very limited run. There was only one Comet, and it only ran in this paint scheme for 10 years or so. From the mid-1930’s into WWII, The Comet was a high class commuter train between Boston, MA and Providence, RI. During WWII, it was too small for the huge amount of traffic from the war, and they weren’t exactly going to get any more from Zepplin. So it was moved to the Boston-Braintree or Boston-Greenbush and other Boston-area commuter runs, where it stayed for the rest of it’s career.
It’s not something that would normally appeal to those that aren’t NH fans or those that don’t model the Boston area for the 1930’s, '40’s, & early '50’s. I can’t imagine Con-Cor pumping out vast quantities of it, which serves to jack the price up.
Compared to the only other model ever released for “The Comet”, which was the $1,500 Railworks version in brass, the Con-Cor one is not big bucks at all.
Also, it’s got to be a very limited run. There was only one Comet, and it only ran in this paint scheme for 10 years or so. From the mid-1930’s into WWII, The Comet was a high class commuter train between Boston, MA and Providence, RI. During WWII, it was too small for the huge amount of traffic from the war, and they weren’t exactly going to get any more from Zepplin. So it was moved to the Boston-Braintree or Boston-Greenbush and other Boston-area commuter runs, where it stayed for the rest of it’s career.
It’s not something that would normally appeal to those that aren’t NH fans or those that don’t model the Boston area for the 1930’s, '40’s, & early '50’s. I can’t imagine Con-Cor pumping out vast quantities of it, which serves to jack the price up.
You have a spelling mistake in one of your titles…
You have a spelling mistake in one of your titles…
Cute.
Cute.
I would have been more impress if if made the station stop in time, and was smoother. Modeling the other coast, this is of little interest to me, other than seeing what Con-Job is capable of these days. Looks like they’ve come a long way from the poor running MP15(DC).
Cool man, I love it.
Cool man, I love it.
Nice . . .
This train was operating during the Great Depression which reminds us that there were prosperous people around in addition to widespread poverty that existed during those difficult times. Rich and poor, it was a two class society.