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[[File:General Pershing Zephyr trial run ticket 1939.JPG|thumb|150px|left|Ticket from the train's trial run between [[St Louis]] and [[Alton, Illinois]] on April 23, 1939. It entered regular service between [[Kansas City]] and St Louis on April 30, 1939.]]
The power car, 9908 ''Silver Charger'', was unique. It utilised a single new [[EMD 567|EMC 567]] [[V12 engine|V-12]] engine developing 1,000 hp, rather than the pair used in the contemporary [[EMC E3]]. It had one [[Martin Blomberg]]-designed E-unit A1A passenger truck at the front, with powered outer axles and a center idler axle, and an unpowered trailing truck, giving it the unusual [[wheel arrangement]] of A1A-2. This made it mechanically half of an E3. The back half of the power car was a baggage area. This made it similar to special power-baggage units built by [[Electro-Motive Diesel|EMD]] for the Colorado Springs section of the [[Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad]] ''[[Rocky Mountain Rocket]]'', though the latter had a carbody and E-3/[[EMD E6|E-6]] styling by [[Electro-Motive Diesel|EMD]]. The "Silver Charger" was the last power unit built by Budd with the unique "Zephyr"/"Flying Yankee" shovelnose styling.
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The train ran its assigned route until the United States entered [[World War II]], during which time the trainset ran on many different routes. As 9908 ''Silver Charger'' could be detached from its trainset, it continued in service hauling other trains after the rest of the streamlined trainset was withdrawn. In this form it lasted in service until 1966, following which it was donated to the [[National Museum of Transportation]] in St Louis.
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