Choo Choo: JetTrain Runs Out of Steam

[YesterAirlines]

There have been some obscure models made in 400 scale over the years and not enough of them have featured US deregulation startups that didn't last long. This JetTrain DC-9 is one of the big Nine haul I've picked up recently but I thought it deserved its own avhistory post as I suspect it is an airline few have heard of:

Choo Choo: JetTrain Runs Out of Steam

I love the stories of the deregulated era US airline industry, and during the 1980s and 90s there were a large number of new startup airlines, most of which didn't last long. The economic downturn of the early 90s, caused partly by the Gulf War, killed of

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It's using the rather crappy Gemini DC-9 mould but is so unique I couldn't pass it up.

 

[LeoMuse747]

That logo is very steampunk and the livery reminds me of the old Seaboard World:

Western to World: Seaboard's Golden Sixties

By 1960 Seaboard and Western had seen both the highs and lows. It had grown from a charter airline to the USA's selected scheduled freight airline across the Atlantic, a market that it dominated. Unfortunately however it was also in a perilous financial s

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I'm not really a fan of it, though. Thing looks very dated even for the 1990s!