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 Posted - May 08 2006 : 11:42:28 PM
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i have a 0-8-0 chattanooga loco with a 0-6-0 tender, i think this is a very rare piece, i just knoticed it while i was in the train room. , maybe i have the only one?
it has a brownish cab with a silver front, and the truck positing seems to be scale, they are not inward like most tyco tender trucks.
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Posted - July 14 2006 : 10:01:53 PM
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Tyco made many Chattanooga Choo Choo locos and sets. It is by no means rare. I have seen many for sale on the tables of the Great Scale Model Train Show which is held in Tiomonium Maryland.
If yours runs it is indeed rare.
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Posted - July 16 2006 : 1:00:51 PM
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Re: the nooga:
I love the LIguy45 observation: "if yours runs it is indeed rare." It seems like at least a third of the (numerous) eBay appearances of the Power-Dork Consol and 0-8-0 are for candidates for the scrap line. In fact, a row of these dead beasts shunted to a scrap yard awaiting the cutter's torch might be their best appropriate scale model use. After all, they are fairly detailed, have nice valve gear, rarely run and frequently have very low miles: just like the last generation of real steam engines relegated to the torch with dieselization.
Tongue in cheek and apologies to Power Torque fans,
Magnolia Academy
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Posted - July 20 2006 : 8:27:16 PM
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Let's face it, the Chattanooga engines, both diesel and the steamer, were not some of Tyco's better ideas. The steamer can be cannibalized for some of its parts.
For the hearty souls who collect Tyco trains the sets are an interesting conversation piece.
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