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HO Scale Con-Cor 01-008744/01/008754 City Of Las Vegas AeroTrain Diesel Engine and 6 Car Set





































Part Number: 01-008744/01/008754 City Of Las Vegas AeroTrain Diesel Engine and 6 Car Set
*****DC and DCC w/ Sound*****
2) Passenger Coach
3) Passenger Coach
4) Passenger Coach
5) Passenger Coach
6) Passenger Coach
7) Passenger Coach
- Factory Paint
- Directional Lights
- Interior lights
- Illuminated Number Boards
- DCC decoder by Electronic Solutions Ulm GmbH & Co KG
- Preowned item so there is no factory warranty
OVERVIEW-
There were two AeroTrain consists (train #1000 and train #1001). Built in 1955 and debuted at the 1955 "GM Powerama" which was held at Soldier's Field just south of Downtown Chicago. At the same show GM showed a Solar Powered Automobile (Geeze this was 53 years ago!) -and still no solar automobiles.
The two AeroTrain demonstrator sets logged over 600,000 miles traveling coast to coast and were open to the public for viewing in many major cities.
In addition to the roads listed below that we can verrify used the AeroTrain is regular service, we know it also ran on many other railroads such as the Southern Pacific, New Haven, Canadian National, and spent a couple of months in Mexico.
Anyone who can help with photos of the AeroTrain running on other railroads would be appreciated. Just send us an Email on what you have. (Click on Email link at the bottom of this page.)
Today you can find parts of one Train Set at the Museum in St. Louis, and parts of the other Train Set at the Museum in Green Bay. The one in St. Louis was cosmeticly restored about 5 years ago using a $10,000 donation from the NMRA.
Each AeroTrain consisted of the locomotive unit, 8 40 seat coaches and the tail end observation car. A total of 10 units per train set. The Locomotive used the drive train off the SW-1200 switcher (regeared so it could hit a top speed of 102 mph- but it rarely ran over 65-70 mph since it was so rough riding), and the car bodies were built using parts from an inter-city bus body that GM was building at the time.
The GM Designer responsible for the AeroTrain project Charles "Chuck" Jordan is retired and living in Southern California. "Chuck" was very helpful in confirming design specifications and details of the AeroTrain. "Chuck" was the primary designer of the 1958 Corvette, and was named Cadillac’s Chief of Design in 1959. We owe a huge "THANK YOU" to Chuck for his help on this project.
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