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 Posted - September 15 2011 : 8:48:15 PM
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Hello all, I'm on my tablet right now, so no pic yet, but I just picked up a tender marked 'made by tyco in Hong Kong.' It looks like the type that goes behind a mantua logger, but it has couplers on both ends, no drawbar, and all plastic wheels. It's lettered for the Santa fe. It seems it could have only come with a loco that picks up both rail currents, or it was made as an auxiliary tender. Any ideas? I'll send a pic soon. Chris
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Posted - September 15 2011 : 9:00:47 PM
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Hey Adams! Welcome back. That tender goes to Tyco's 0-6-0. Not Mantua. The 0-6-0 used a coupler to connect to the engine. The 0-6-0 is a powertorque engine.
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Posted - September 15 2011 : 9:08:03 PM
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| Ah, thanks. That's a later product that I've never owned. I may run mine behind a tyco tank loco as an auxiliary.
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 06:19:03 AM
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hi chris i have a tender with couplings either end,and it goes with the hong kong made tyco 0-6-0,which is a real piece of rubbish,a real turn in the wrong direction by tyco,one of the reasons i go mainly for red box or mantua made steamers,ken
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chassis,check those side rods out,connected to only one set of wheels,but all 6 wheels have holes for screws,4 of which never used
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 11:31:50 AM
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| Yes, Ken, That's the tender. Nice pics of the loco mechanism--I've never seen or owned one before. Chris
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 11:45:21 AM
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| my advice chris,try and get it as close to free as you can,poorly made,ken
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 12:54:24 PM
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I've been told they're the worst Tyco engine ever made besides the crappy ol' brownbox era MU2's is Tyco's powertorque'd 0-6-0.
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 12:56:53 PM
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| hi Justin,thats just why i told Chris to get it as close to free as he can ken
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 1:10:13 PM
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Yep. I'm a Tyco guy ,but, don't plan on owning one.
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