That original Budd trainset ^^ actually did make at least one appearance too further west, on the D&RGW. The railroad's art-department offered a pamphlet, or even a poster or two, albeit with a doctored background. Perhaps even a few more, with doctored background scenery. One of them might have been at the East Portal of Moffat Tunnel, but as I recall the terrain behind the portal was borrowed from other locations. Another might have been at a different, but classic, Rio Grande photo-spot: Castle Gate, just west of Helper Utah.
And of course this original silver train demonstrated the classic Budd stainless designs to the all the world. In the case of the California Zephyr, the cars owned by the three contributing railroads all carried the tag "Silver" ahead of the name of the actual car. Thus, and on the D&RGW for example, cars wore names such as "Silver Sky," and "Silver Antelope." An earlier car, a diner owned by the CB&Q and used on the Burlington's Denver Zephyr was named "Silver Service."
The lesser known Southwestern Zephyr Budd cars did not use the "Silver" name (even though also stainless) as "Silver" was a tribute to this ^^ original Budd train from 1934 owned by the CB&Q, but instead used an intro moniker specific to each of those four contributing railroads. Thus, they were named "Prairie," "Mountain," "Desert," and "Ocean." An example of the last group were the mere handful of Zephyr cars owned by the AT&SF, "Ocean Sunset," being one.
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One of the few MRR items I did manage to save from the multiple burglaries two years ago was the KATO CZ set. It was my nephew's pride-and-joy, so I'm grateful for that. The four F7-units, however were all pilfered and sold on Facebook. I had each one still in it's box...and with price tag on each end. Oops.
Also taken was the new compressor and both new airbrushes. But I'm sure they didn't get the four sets of Rio Grande decals for the repaints, nor the DCC encoders. So I'm part way to getting it all back.
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