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 Posted - March 07 2013 : 10:11:40 PM
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If anyone remembers the late 1990s Nickelodeon animated series "Angry Beavers," there was an episode with a HUGE model train set entitled "Gift Hoarse." The setup: it's Arbor Day, which is Christmas for beavers, and the two main beaver brothers Norbert and Dagget get their presents from their parents in the mail. Norbert's present is...
The Paul Bunyon (sic) Giant Logger's Express Electric Train Set!
But Dagget merely gets a small pine tree air freshener. Of course he grows increasingly jealous...
This is what the train looks like once set up:
Of course, Dagget is so jealous he manages to derail the trains and wreck the layout...
In this, the model trains also sound like real diesel trains, with the horns, engine bells, wheels clacking, etc. There was also one more episode featuring the train was "The Bing That Wouldn't Leave," but it instead sounded like some cartoony toy Lionel train with a steam whistle, and once again Dagget wound up destroying it.
I can't imagine what it'd be like if ANY model railroad company offered a train set like this. It's enough to build a whole model railroad layout! It's even more fully-featured than Tyco's System 200 or Life-Like's Double Train Express and Super City Elevated Rails!
But just for the heck of it, if Tyco DID have a train set like that, I imagine this is what it'd be like, cira 1980...
TYCO PAUL BUNYAN GIANT LOGGER'S EXPRESS ELECTRIC TRAIN SET
Contents include: Santa Fe F-9 diesel, Burlington Northern GP-20 diesel, Rock Island shark-nose diesel, Silver Streak Alco Century diesel, Santa Fe Diesel Switcher, Santa Fe Alco Super 630 (all with working headlights), Santa Fe passenger cars, Durango stock car, Texaco tank cars (2), Pulpwood cars (2), Skid flat with culvert pipe, Virginian hopper, Burlington Northern hopper, Burlington Northern 50" box car, Shell silver tank, Burlington Northern piggyback flat car set, Rock Island caboose, Silver Streak caboose, Santa Fe caboose (2)
Remote-control unloading box car, remote-control log dump car, log loader station, piggyback loader/unloader, Autoloader car with six autos (2), Cattle car and Depot set, Crane car with boom tender, Operating Crossing Gate (2), Freight Unloading Depot, Operating Burlington Northern floodlight car, 33-piece bridge and trestle set (3), Arlee Station building kit, Lighted Freight Station, 33-piece lighted and scenic accessory set, 100 sections of track (including remote switches, blocking controller and uncoupling ramps) and three Tyco power packs (basic kind.)
Whew, that'd probably be REALLY crazy! It'd probably include not only the Layout Expander System manual, but also the Tyco Model Railroad Manual by Robert Schleicher!
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Posted - March 07 2013 : 10:50:41 PM
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Oh man, another Angry Beavers fan! It has to be the funniest cartoon bar none, except Looney Tunes. That episode has me in hysterics every time. That and the "Eurobeavers" episode are two of the best. I've come to describe it as highbrow slapstick, and one of the great joys of the show is Norb intentionally mangling his pronunciations in ways you never knew were possible.
It was very hard to gauge what scale the trains were, since they kept changing size throughout that episode.
"Thanks for troubleshooting that switch." 
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