The Silver Streak

The Silver Streak

Infobox Film
name=The Silver Streak


caption=1934 advertising poster
director=Thomas Atkins
producer=Glendon Alvine
writer=H.W. Hanemann
Jack O'Donnell
Roger Whately
starring=Charles Starrett
country = USA
language = English
editing=Fred Kundtson
released=1934
imdb_id=0027000

"The Silver Streak" is a 1934 film loosely based on the record-setting "dawn-to-dusk" run of the "Pioneer Zephyr" on May 26 1934. The original "Zephyr" trainset was used for the exterior shots in the film, while interior scenes were filmed on a soundstage in Hollywood. For the film, the "Burlington Route" nameplate on the train's nose was replaced with one that read "Silver Streak".

In the story, the crew was racing to the Boulder Dam construction site with an iron lung, with only moments to spare.

In 2006 Con-Cor International, Ltd. produced a model of the Pioneer Zephyr. A limited number (350 HO scale and 250 N scale) of these bore the nameplates of the Silver Streak from the motion picture instead of the standard Burlington Zephyr nameplates.

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References

* [http://www.all-railroads.com/silverstreak.html Con-Cor Silver Streak] - These units are sold out. This is not posted as an advertisement.


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