4-Car 60’ Streamlined Passenger Set w/LED Lights - Christmas (Red w/Silver Roof)

The lightweight, streamlined passenger car was a product of the Great Depression. While the heavyweight steel cars built in the teens and 1920s were dependable and often luxurious, their dark colors and solid, battleshiplike exteriors did little to lift the spirits at a time when the entire nation needed a pick-me-up. As noted railroad historian John H. White, Jr. put it in The American Railroad Passenger Car, “Some hope during these gloomy years was offered by a new design concept called streamlining. It presented a sleek, modern image of speed and innovation. What had been an obscure technical term in aerodynamics was made into a household word through an astute publicity campaign mounted by several railroad traffi c departments. It succeeded in creating a general interest in railroading practically unknown since the opening of the fi rst transcontinental line… According to Railway Age, ‘For the fi rst time in many years, the words ‘sold out’ re-entered the ticket clerk’s vocabulary.’”

• Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Bodies
• Detailed Car Undercarriage
• Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
• Metal Wheels and Axles
• Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
• Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
• Needle-Point Axles
• (2) Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
• Overhead Interior Lighting
• Constant Voltage Colored LED Body Lights
• End-of-Car Diaphragms
• Detailed Car Interiors
• 4-Car Sets Feature: (1) Baggage, (2) Coaches, (1) Observation
• Unit Measures: 16 11/16" x 2 1/2" x 3 5/16"
• Operates On O-31 Curves

This product is compatible with all O Gauge 3-Rail track systems including those systems offered by Atlas and Gargraves and Lionel and Ross Custom Switches.