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 Posted - March 04 2026 : 02:07:10 AM
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After a looooong hiatus, I got back into model railroading with British OO, my first love.
It was the ubiquitous Tyco Jello box and hopper cars that really piqued my interest, and
shortly I was buying every Tyco Jello car I could get my hands on. Now I'm stuck with a
reasonably large British layout and a smaller Tyco layout, the latter made possible because
it was so cheap.
Half my life I've worked in or around hospitals, so the Jello theme was a great way to blow
off steam in my spare time. No, I'm not a doctor.
https://youtu.be/58S5E3K8G1k
https://youtu.be/qzkHQyGaEaI
Edited by - Chops124 on March 04 2026 02:09:15 AM
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 Posted - March 04 2026 : 8:46:26 PM
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Nice vintage videos Jeff. Definitely Tyco and the other companies products give us plenty of pleasure to enjoy while temporary forgetting about the world's ills.
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Posted - March 05 2026 : 01:46:28 AM
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| Absolutely right!
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Posted - March 05 2026 : 3:46:07 PM
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| In my case I guess you could say I was and am psycho for Alco. Those beasts were everywhere during my childhood, including the 12 of 16 C430s built that COnrail ended up with. In those days, outside of brass or Hobbytown kits, the low end train set locomotives were the only Alcos in HO. Those I could afford, and the Tycos were the best of the bunch. Later when I started modelling my own railroad, several of Tyco's cars including the caboose were unusual prototypes or completely freelanced, perfect for a freelanced railroad. After all, every railroad out there has had cars that were unique to it, and some had distinctive styles as well. Examples would be the Pennsy cabooses on which Tyco's was based, or the wagontop boxcars of the B&O. Those 62 foot Tyco cars fit the bill, and the high cube in particular could stand in for the massive 86 foot auto parts cars so common back then, without overwhelming a small layout with 18 inch curves. I also modified several of the quad hoppers into distinctive shorty 3 bay cars by cupping out one of the bays. But the ALcos were my holy grail, and i find it sad that as others like Bachmann and Lifelike were upgrading their locomotives, tyco went under and took the Alcos with them.
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Posted - March 05 2026 : 5:28:47 PM
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Psycho for Alco, huh? Well, we can't all be perfect. GG1 is my Achille's Heel of railroadiana.
LOTW is a custom paint job by A-A-Ron, who did a splendid job of the little known
Plainview and Lubbock. Very, very little known. In fact, no one's heard of it.
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