New locomotive: Pioneer Zephyr

The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered railroad train built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), commonly known as the Burlington. The train featured extensive use of stainless steel, was originally named the Zephyr, and was meant as a promotional tool to advertise passenger rail service in the United States.
On May 26, 1934, it set a speed record for travel between Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois, when it made a 1,015-mile (1,633 km) non-stop "Dawn-to-Dusk" dash in 13 hours 5 minutes at an average speed of 77 mph (124 km/h). For one section of the run it reached a speed of 112.5 mph (181 km/h), just short of the then US land speed record of 115 mph (185 km/h). The Burlington's contemporary passenger trains plied the same distance in around 25 hours.

The real specifications for this locomotives are (taken from wikipedia):

• Units built: 1
• Total unit length: N/A
• Weight: N/A
• Top speed: 181 km/h
• Power output: 447 kW

The Burlington Pioneer Zephyr (credits here)

The Zephyr observation car

Simutrans screenshot

Simutrans object data

Type	Diesel Multiple Unit
Name	Zephyr	Zephyr Car	Obs. Car
Freight	Post	Passengers
Capacity	60	80	52
Max.Speed	180 Km/h
Power	447 kW	N/A
Intro Year	1934
Retire Year	1960

You can download the addon for the original livery at The Simutrans Boxroom.

For more information on this locomotive check the following links:

• www.wikipedia.org