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 Posted - March 29 2025 : 2:56:11 PM
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Hi Everyone!
Its my turn to ask for identification help. I picked this set up today on FBM - looking up the set number I can not find it in any brown box catalog. Does anyone have any ideas on when it was produced? Could it be possible its from Sears, JC Penny or Montgomery Ward?
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Posted - March 29 2025 : 7:41:05 PM
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This might help out someone else identifying this set, I personally don't know where to start to look for uncatalogued sets. I think this would be from 1976, as that was the only year (as far as I can tell) that both the Budweiser covered hopper and the Rock Island C430 were produced together.
Covered hopper: 1973-1976
Locomotive: 1976-1981
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Posted - March 29 2025 : 8:49:19 PM
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As an additional note upon checking the contents I saw that the Gulf tanker should either be a Mobil tanker or it is in the incorrect box - either from the factory or the original/previous owner?
And - upon lifting the outer box cover I found this Virginian coal car with a black coal bag. Not sure if it should be there or it was added?
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Posted - April 03 2025 : 3:13:21 PM
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Posted - April 03 2025 : 6:58:23 PM
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Pretty sure the operating hopper and bag of coal were added, because Tyco would have also included the unloading trestle with them.
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Posted - April 03 2025 : 8:35:47 PM
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quote:Pretty sure the operating hopper and bag of coal were added, because Tyco would have also included the unloading trestle with them.
Originally posted by gmoney - April 03 2025 : 6:58:23 PM
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I thought that too, plus that cutout looks like it was for a longer box, my guess is that is where the track went. If that hopper isn't original, how will we know if other things are? 
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Posted - April 04 2025 : 8:44:00 PM
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| Tyco was known to have a lot of uncatalogued variations of sets, typically because when people sent in letters for mail-order they mightve requested some parts of the set be interchanged with other ones, such as replaced boxcars n such. This is a common issue so your set is probably personalized. Not a very big deal but i think that's cool
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Posted - April 05 2025 : 10:32:20 AM
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quote:Tyco was known to have a lot of uncatalogued variations of sets, typically because when people sent in letters for mail-order they mightve requested some parts of the set be interchanged with other ones, such as replaced boxcars n such. This is a common issue so your set is probably personalized. Not a very big deal but i think that's cool
Originally posted by tyco collecter - April 04 2025 : 8:44:00 PM
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Thats crazy and yet cool that Tyco did that! I know manufacturers could be accommodating but not to the level they would change contents of sets.
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