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Been away from HO scale for a bit, got bitten by the G scale bug and modeling Austrian narrow gauge in our garden. Sold all but a couple of my HO gauge engines and a couple of cars. But, I am hoping to rebuild my little layout this coming winter and want, really really want, to do it with the original tyco set that I got years ago. So I am on the hunt for it now, the wild west set with the bumble bee twelve wheeler. Its going to be a total retro set, brass track and all. Hopefully I can locate an affordable set as I have been out of work for awhile and train money is far and few between. Only got the G stuff with the $$ from my HO stuff. Layout is super small to help keep costs down. I have built up a couple of old wood kits for wild west style buildings during the super hot days this past summer. I did keep my wife's Chessie power, a weathered and detailed Tyco Super 630 around, still runs great if you dont overload it. Back to the set stuff, I started out with 2 sets, a Silver Streak set and a Wild West set, some combination. Dad got me the Silver Streak as that was my fav movie at that time and grandpa got me the wild west set. I am really drawn to the wild west stuff now, wish it ran better but I know how to remotor and deal with the shortcomings of those engines now. Cheers Mike and Michele T
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Posted - September 28 2012 : 11:16:24 PM
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Posted - September 28 2012 : 11:57:17 PM
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Been gone a couple of years, 3007 new topics since I last logged in! In researching the sets, must have been the Golden West set with a subsituted engine, mine didnt have the ATSF 4-6-0, although I like it to. Mine had the bumble bee 4-8-0 and it wasnt in a normal set box, but a plain brown box from my memory. Almost like it was a set from Sears, JC Penny or Montgomery Wards. I know the family shopped those places alot when I was a kid. Either way, I want to get the twelve wheeler and the ATSF ten wheeler. Mike
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Posted - September 29 2012 : 10:38:17 AM
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Welcome to the Tycoforum.
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Posted - September 29 2012 : 11:24:22 AM
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Welcome back to HO! My layout I'm building soon will have brass sectional track.
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Posted - September 29 2012 : 11:59:49 AM
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Welcome back, again cadet.....
hope to see what you been doing in G scale!!!!
~John
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Posted - September 29 2012 : 7:06:08 PM
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Here are some pics of my G scale projects, I picked up a whole box of brass track, probably 15 turnouts, 3 curved brass turnouts for $20 bucks and a Tyco Durango stock car at todays hobby shop trip. Also found a mint in the box ATSF Dixie Belle that I made an offer on as the owner wasnt in, left two books in trade toward it, should know more on it next week. I got it to run after turning the motor with pocket clip off a ink pin as it was stuck from sitting. Ran really well in forward with just a bit of dry squeal in reverse, it would just crawl for having oxidized tender wheels and no lube. Hope to own it by next weekend. Its boxed as well. Mike
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Posted - September 29 2012 : 7:20:04 PM
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neato set up I has some G scale cars avalible Track too but its the Big Haulers steel track 
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Posted - September 30 2012 : 11:22:42 AM
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As a child I was sick alot, around 5yrs old I developed asthma and spent lots of time in the hospital and sick, was usualy sick on both Christmas and my b-day. So I got lots of indoor toys for those holidays and trains was a big one. Like I said I started out with the Silver Streak and Golden West set with a subsituted engine. My next set, thanks to reading a post that triggered my memory, was a Sears Royal Blue set. I saw the post of someone that won a set on ebay and seeing that box brought back a flood of birthday memories. I loved that engine, but despised the tender drive. I so wanted it to have the same drive, motor in the locomotive, as my twelve wheeler did. I think while my layout will be a wild west layout, that I will gradualy rebuild my collection of childhood trains. I think the final Tyco engine I got was a Midnight Special shark nose the Christmas after I got the Royal Blue set. Mike
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Posted - September 30 2012 : 12:49:10 PM
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Welcome back, to TF and HO scale. Nothing wrong with G, I have a circle set up outside FINALLY after buying my house 12 years ago. Hope to expand the garden railway after the War on Ivy is done ( long-term job there ). Also planning on a deck railing HO scale "layout" that is modular and removable in inclement weather. More planning required there, too. Anyway, enjoy reacquainting yourself with TF and HO again. My first train was a Lionel 0-27 set at age 3, at 14 I got into HO scale, mostly loose pieces bought after Christmas at Woolworth on sale, and diesel. Still heavily into HO myself, got into DCC club 6 years ago as well. Hope to see more of you and your posts here soon.
Jerry in Virginia
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Posted - September 30 2012 : 1:19:34 PM
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Thanks Jerry, been working in the train room all morning. Dug out my old 55" by 33" mini layout, added another 4" to the front of it so I can run 18"raduis track and started going thru my box of brass track. It will be a small/mini layout as my main concentration is on G scale now. Its still a debate, wild west using a couple of Dixie Belles and a twelve wheeler or get a Mantua classics 2-6-6-2T and do logging. Right now the desire for wild west with stage coaches and a gun fight in the town square is winning. Alot depends if I get this mint W&ARR Dixie belle down at a shop in Indy. Even bone dry it runs really smooth, has nothing missing or broken and has a nice original box. I like to have the boxes and display them on shelves on the wall. A boxed D&RGW 4-8-0 is top of my want list right now, I would trade a LGB 0-6-2T engine for one thats mint in the box. I know I can find the rest of my childhood Tyco cheap at shows. Mike
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