Con-Cor - HO Scale - Heavyweight 65' Branchline Solarium-Observation w/Lights - Patron Tequila Express #50 - Pullman Green/ Yellow/ GM&O Logo (SKU 223-94436)
Available On: January 1, 2015
All railroads had some cars in its passenger fleet that were used in local or branchline service. Often these were older cars that had spent the prime of their life on the mainline "name train" inter-city service. Some railroads like the C&NW, Southern Pacific, Pennsylvania, and Canadian Pacific had hundreds of cars in their commuter fleets. No two railroads used exactly the same designs for their cars, and the lengths of the cars varied as well. Also many cars were sold off as "hand me downs" to smaller roads to be used on mixed train branchline service. So these cars could be at home on any prototype railroad, large or small. We chose to model them as 65 Ft long cars, so they would run on 18 inch radius curves of the average home layout. The time era for these cars stretched from the 1920's to well into the late 1950's.
Patron Tequila Express Private Observaton car.
The Patron Tequila Private Car is a private car owned by Patron Tequila Corporation of San Antonio Texas. No expense was spared to rebuild this car from it roots as an original Gulf Mobile and Ohio business car orginally built in the 1920. It is Amtrak certified and runs many trips on publicity tours for Patron Tequila. It was seen passing through Tuscon Az, near the Con-Cor factory in May of 2014, which gave them the idea to make this model.Since it is Amtrak certified and running today, no reason you can not run one behind your Amtrak consist in either your private or club layout. Note: Con-Cor has even added a Drumhead to the rear of the car.
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