Set Includes: SD70ACe Engine, Gondola w/Crates, Modern Tank Car, Offset Steel Caboose,12 Piece RealTrax Oval, 50-watt Power Supply With Controller, Lighted Track Lock-On, RailWare Interactive DVD

These intermodal double-stack freight trains are the hottest traffic in railroading today. Intermodal containers are loaded at factories that make products from toys to refrigerators and shipped to customers halfway around the world by boat, train, and truck. Shipments are door-to-door, with containers packed and unpacked only once, no matter how many forms of transportation they take. This makes intermodal transport safer, cheaper, and less damage-prone than older forms of freight shipment. While container sizes are standard the world over, the United States is one of the few countries that can handle extra-height double-stack trains.

At the head of these double-stack freights is the Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe, EMD's most modern and "greenest" locomotive. Its 16-cylinder, 4300 horsepower motor was designed to meet the Environmental Protection Agency's Tier-2 emissions requirements that took effect in 2005, and this engine delivers 10 percent more horsepower with 50 percent less emissions than its predecessor. In addition to the diesel motor, virtually every element of the SD70ACe has been re-thought to create a 21st century locomotive.