Con-Cor - 0001-008774 - Aerotrain - Union Pacific - 3-Pack Add-On Set

Specific Item Information: Aerotrain 3-Car Add-On Set, Union Pacific (City of Las Vegas, 1957)

Model Information: Con-Cor introduced this model in 2008. The models feature highly detailed bodies, with separate add on parts where appropriate. They have diaphragms between cars. They feature full interior details with LED interior car lighting. Each car has a circuit board for electrical pick-up with metal wheelsets. The mechanism features a dual flywheel drive with a 5 pole skewed armature motor. The model has functional reversing front headlights, and tail of observation back up lights. The Loco cab has a detailed interior. It comes in a Special Edition Collector's Box with reprints of articles from the 1955 Popular Mechanics, and 1976 Rail Classics Article on the original AeroTrain are included with Basic 4 car Sets.

DCC Information: Will come in DC mode, with 8 pin NMRA Socket set mounted inside lst coach car for adding any brand small N Function Decoder, or Sound Decoder (Decoder not included).

Road Name History: The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Union Pacific Railroad network is the largest in the United States and employs 42,600 people. It is also one of the world's largest transportation companies.

Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP); both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Over the years Union Pacific Corporation has grown by acquiring other railroads, notably the Missouri Pacific, Chicago & North Western, Western Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific (including the Denver & Rio Grande Western).

Union Pacific Corporation's main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the nation's second largest freight railroad, which also primarily services the Continental U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the U.S.

Read more on Wikipedia and on Union Pacific official website.

Brand/Importer Information: Con-Cor has been in business since 1962. Many things have changed over time as originally they were a complete manufacturing operation in the USA and at one time had upwards of 45 employees. They not only designed the models,but they also built their own molds, did injection molding, painting, printing and packaging on their models.

Currently, most of their manufacturing has been moved overseas and now they import 90% of their products as totally finished goods, or in finished components. They only do some incidental manufacturing today within the USA.

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