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 Posted - December 07 2025 : 01:54:38 AM
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https://youtu.be/yTvgt7YdnbE
The G was/is one of my favorite all-time locomotives. I got to see the
real deal with a rather grotesque CR stencilled upon its nose back around
'75 or thereabouts, thundering southward on the 4-track mainline
north of NYC. It was pulling a dog train and appeared to be running at
full throttle, probably the engineer having one last joy ride before the
scrap heap (although apparently a few made it to Can Opener Blue
before the scrapper).
Tyco's G was a piece of junk, but by putting two powered trucks in it
I got her to run fairly decently, hoisting more than one or two cars.
I got a private chuckle during a model train open house, on this layout,
whilst she blew loops past a friend's high-end remote control GG1
that kept collapsing into the ballast every few year yards. I remember
his unit had remote-controlled pantographs that worked most of the
time.
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Posted - December 08 2025 : 12:17:19 AM
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![]() Many of you know that Tyco released their C&O F7s in two variations, with the blue and silver colours reversed. f you are like ma, you've probably wondered why the second version, which was unlike anything the C&O ever actually ran. Would this photo, of C&O and RT&P E8s at Alexandria, VA perhaps explain where the second variation came from?
Edited by - jward on December 08 2025 12:21:24 AM
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Posted - December 08 2025 : 01:12:40 AM
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| I feel like there are several schemes that Tyco was just sooooo close to getting right. In the pre-internet days were they generally working off a single reference photo when doing the various paint schemes?
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