|
|
 Posted - January 10 2006 : 4:19:46 PM
|
Regarding Tyco's IC cabeese: Do any of the readers know whether M/T offered an 8-wheel caboose companion to their rare silver/red paint scheme GP-20's? Examples of the Geeps are rare as hen's teeth but both a powered and dummy version in transitional red Tyco boxes recently sold on Ebay. I'm aware of the three encountered orange/white IC and ICG incarnations but have never seen the early red/silver animal. Also, has anyone encountered the red IC bopper shown with the '61 Black Diamond set?
Magnolia Academy
|
Country:  USA ~
Posts: 446 ~
Member Since: December 09 2005 ~
Last Visit: October 28 2006
|
Alert Moderator
|
|
|
|
Posted - August 17 2006 : 07:55:22 AM
|
Hello,
This is about the Tyco 8-wheeled caboose. Does anyone know the prototype for the caboose with the Pennsy looking cupola? Some versions have window framing above the roofline and other versions the cupola windows facing the ends ends even with the roof. I wonder why to versions were needed? I have a PRR caboose like the latter with metal handrails and metal ladders.
I was going through an antique mall in Charleston WV, 2 weeks ago, looking for my Great Northern Alco Century, when I found an Ann of Green Gables paperback with a caboose on the cover. The girl was sitting at a train station and over her shoulder was an accurate realistic rendering of a Tyco caboose with with the Pennsy looking cupola. It even had a horn hook coupler on it. I guess the artist thought it was prototypical?
Thanks,
Alco Fan
|
|
Country: USA ~
Posts: 2496 ~
Member Since: August 03 2006 ~
Last Visit: September 17 2024
|
Alert Moderator
|
|
|
|
Posted - November 17 2025 : 12:53:10 PM
|
I know this thread is ancient, but I had to find the “Anne of Green Gables” paperback cover with the Tyco caboose!
The artist copied the Tyco caboose faithfully — the frames are missing from the cupola end windows, the end railing, ladder and brake wheel stand are the later plastic version, and the horn hook is truck mounted!
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
|
|
Country: USA ~
Posts: 1623 ~
Member Since: December 13 2008 ~
Last Visit: November 19 2025
|
Alert Moderator
|
|
Home
Forums
Events Calendar
Forum Admins & Mods
Register
