Minitrix - 15071 - Flatcar, Rens , Container Transport, Epoch VI - Ahaus Alstätter Eisenbahn - 4-Pack

Specific Item Information: 4 type Rens four-axle low side cars with stakes. Privately owned cars of the firm AAE Cargo AG, Zug, Switzerland, leased to the firm Awilog Transport GmbH, Oberriexingen. European standard design with a length of 19.90 meters / 65 feet 3-7/16 inches. Each low side car is loaded with 7 dumping hoppers with tarps for the firm Awilog. The cars look as they did around 2009.

Road Name History: AAE Ahaus Alstätter Eisenbahn AG mit Sitz in Baar (Schweiz) war mit 30'000 Güterwagen einer der grössten privatwirtschaftlichen Güterwagenvermieter in Europa.[2] Sie gehört seit Anfang 2015 zur VTG AG. Zunächst wurden die Waggons mit einer neuen Logo-Kombination aus dem VTG-Logo und den AAE-Schriftzeichen versehen. 2018 ist die Eingliederung in die VTG weitgehend vollzogen, die Vermietung der Waggons erfolgt über die VTG. Waggons tragen aber noch das Halterkürzel AAEC. Niederlassungen bestanden in allen grösseren europäischen Ländern. Instandsetzungen und Hauptuntersuchungen der Güterwagen wurden europaweit durchgeführt. Zur Organisation des operativen Geschäfts wurden drei Gesellschaften nach luxemburgischen Recht gegründet (AAE Railcar S.à.r.l., AAE RaiLease S.à r.l. und AAE Wagon Finance S.A.). Die AAE ist auch Mitglied im internationalen Eisenbahnverband UIC.

Brand/Importer Information: Trix is a German company that originally made Trix metal construction sets. one of its co-founders was Stephan Bing, the son of the pioneer toy-maker industrialist Ignaz Bing. In 1935 the company began producing the electrically powered model trains that it became famous for, under the Trix Express label. Prior to the outbreak of World War II the Trix company produced a small range of fairly unrealistic AC powered three rail models running at 14 volts.

N gauge models under the Minitrix brand were made from the late 1960s mostly of European prototypes (German and British primarily). North American prototypes were also manufactured and marketed under the Aurora "Postage Stamp" brand; later these items were sold under the American Tortoise, Model Power and Con-Cor brands. Trix sometimes utilized North American consultants to aid in the design of this portion of the product line. The "Hornby Minitrix' brand was used in the 1980s for a short lived range of British outline models using the earlier product tooling.

Trix's owner in the 1980s and 1990s was Mangold, which went bankrupt in the late 1990s and Märklin purchased the assets in January 1997. In part, this purchase was a reflection of Märklin's need for added production capacity; Trix had been manufacturing certain items for Märklin in previous years. The purchase was also in response to the earlier purchase of the Karl Arnold company by the Italian company Rivarossi; Märklin were very keen to take over Trix market share in 2-rail H0 and especially Minitrix, until then Märklin had not marketed N gauge models. In 2003, Märklin introduced its first N gauge models under the well established Minitrix brand. A number Märklin H0 scale three-rail AC locomotives have also been introduced in two-rail DC versions under the Trix logo and many models are shared between the two brands.

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