Container Freight Train

There is something hypnotic about a loaded container train rolling across open country, one diesel-electric locomotive hauling the world's cargo, one flatcar at a time. This advanced building set brings that scene onto your shelf in brick form, from the ribbed corrugated container walls to the sixteen-cylinder engine hiding behind a removable hood panel. Coupled up end to end, the finished train stretches a full 92 cm.

The heavy road-switcher locomotive opens up in two places: the driver's cab lifts away to reveal a detailed control stand, and a removable side panel on the long hood exposes a sixteen-cylinder power unit built in miniature. Behind it run two flatcars carrying three shipping containers, each with working doors and one finished with refrigeration detailing along its end wall. The containers lift free so you can stack them two high or set them side by side, and a small shunter truck with a detachable trailer handles the loading and unloading. Three worker minifigures come along to crew the yard.