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 Posted - July 10 2017 : 8:48:55 PM
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I've been working on a Mantua 0-4-0 "Shifter" and looking on www.hoseeker.net for information. While looking at the different Mantua catalogs that have been uploaded to hoseeker, I notice there is a sure gap between 1962 and 1983. Do you think (or know) that Mantua didn't produce between those years . . . or are those just hard to find catalogs?
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Posted - July 10 2017 : 10:46:23 PM
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Mantua was owned by the Tyler family, from which we get the name Tyco. There seems to have been some flopping back and forth between the Mantua and Tyco names.
The first HO trains I messed with were branded Tyco, but the steam locomotives said Mantua on the bottom. This was in the early 1970's. I can later remember Tyco being owned by Consolidated Foods, so I don't know whether the Tylers or Consolidated owned it back in the early '70's, but the designs were Mantua.
By the mid to late 1970's, the designs were somewhat cheapened. I've seen examples of the Shifter, the Prairie and the Pacific that had axle grooves cast right into the die cast frames, without the brass bearing inserts.
Later, the Mantua name returned, as did the brass bearings.
I know this is all king of vague, but it's just personal memories without any good documented information.
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Posted - July 11 2017 : 06:28:29 AM
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hi barry you should find all the missing catalogues on tony cooks site,but at the moment he is in process of moving to a new site,i have all of them on disc,and computer ken
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Posted - July 11 2017 : 11:56:14 AM
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| Thanks for the tips. I googled Tony Cook and came to a site where it said you could download a "free .pdf" of model railroad data. Do you think this is safe?
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Posted - July 11 2017 : 1:06:27 PM
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PDF is a pretty safe format. It's just a document. What you don't want are formats that kick off a program, for example: EXE or BAT (this is not an exhaustive list). If you see a suffix you don't recognize, you can usually find out what it is with Google or some search engine.
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Posted - July 11 2017 : 2:45:22 PM
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Mantua/Tyco History
http://tycotrain.tripod.com/tycotrains/id64.html
http://hotraincollector.com/tyco-trains-history/
http://www.tcawestern.org/tyco.htm
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Posted - July 11 2017 : 2:45:46 PM
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| Thanks Don, and Ken. After looking around again, it seems my best bet may be to wait until Tony Cook's site is up again.
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Posted - July 11 2017 : 5:40:49 PM
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| Thanks Bill. That last link to TCA Western gave a pretty good story.
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