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The New Haven's Goodyear Comet

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The New Haven's Goodyear Comet
Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 5:44 AM

Three photos

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 7:59 PM

See if you can post any pictures of this train in color.  Lovely dark blue, and the aluminum body panels were engine-turned like  Bugatti engines or the Hamilton model 900 movement.  

it's a pity NH didn't have a real service to run 'just the one' train at high speed, or the financing to get a fleet...

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Posted by Firelock76 on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:40 PM

Well I found this...

http://www.american-rails.com/msschts.html

Scroll down to see it.

And then there's this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-oUnvWQ8Q

And for the traditionalists, theres' this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pogYGc_hr0

About as close as I could get to movies in color of the real thing.

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