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 Posted - November 26 2012 : 9:03:39 PM
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Well I finally got both of the TYCO animated cars with the brakeman on them. I have gotten 3 of the M-StL cars with no man, but I never had the TH&B one. Two questions, does anyone know how to get the gears off and how thread the rubber bands. Oh, and do they actually work? thanks... Phil
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Posted - November 26 2012 : 10:13:20 PM
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Neato! I didn't know Tyco had these! I thought they were by someone else.  I'll have to keep an eye out for them in my area. Never seen one for sale at any rate. They are supposed to work when moving.
Jerry
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Posted - November 26 2012 : 10:19:05 PM
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I never seen those cars with the brake man! Maybe ya could make a mold and cast some! I have seen both cars, just never with the brakeman!
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Posted - November 26 2012 : 11:51:00 PM
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| I'll take a pic later on them, but if you take a staple gun staple, a ho figure that has some sort of platform (look at the foot on the brake man) and put it up into the flat piece it would work. you would have to bend, or hook the piece that hooks on the rubberband. Now that I have actually see how small this guy is, tomorrow I am going to try and find something like a hobo to ride on top of the cars.
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Posted - November 27 2012 : 7:09:02 PM
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Try this link, might be helpful
http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2580&SearchTerms=brakeman,car
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Posted - November 28 2012 : 10:56:41 AM
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| what kind of movement is he supposed to do?
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Posted - November 28 2012 : 12:04:45 PM
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| Go around th etop rubberband, back and forth. I have not tried it yet because I need the rubberbands.
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Posted - November 28 2012 : 6:26:05 PM
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| The one I fixed worked well, sometimes the top rubber band would work it's way up toward the top of the car. It's kind of cool watching the brakeman walk around the top of the car. The repair I did lasted a few months, the needed another set of bands.
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Posted - November 28 2012 : 8:23:11 PM
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where i went to school in Iowa the M & St l ran through the middle of the school campus separating women's dorms from men. They'd blow the whistle as they entered the campus day and night, ran so slow one could hop a ride into town. There were no R R signals at the side walks connecting the two campuses. Steam lines ran under the side walks and tracks in a tunnel that heated the buildings and walks More than one night visit to the girls side was made through the tunnels.
We took the Rock Island home to Chicago
It's all gone today
Amazing how model trains were animated years ago before electronics. I remember all my Lionel cars that did different tasks using vibrating coils and electro magnets. Crude but effective
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Posted - November 30 2012 : 1:33:11 PM
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This is my COTW:
It is a pair of AF Gilbert NYNH&H depressed flat car w/ transformer loads:
I have really lost count of how many of these I have. It must be over 10 or more by now. Since I collect new Haven, if figure you can never have enough!
Sean
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