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Yup. A true slider!! 
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Posted - August 12 2021 : 12:42:07 PM
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And a variation I didn't have:
A Tyco Virginian quad hopper stamped with the lettering designed for the operating hopper.
Just a little further down the quad hopper slope . . .
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quote:
. . . and a new slope - 40ft hi-cubes. I slipped down this slope when I impulsively bought a Tyco Soo Line 40ft hi-cube to match the Tyco Soo Line 62 footer (which I'll have to find!) from my childhood. This one's a Bachmann:
With a crooked logo - way to go Bachmann!
I realize I need to dig out the 40ft Soo Line too . . .
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I have that & the Tyco one & real cool is both are different numbers! 
Oh I did have the ICG one
but I sent it off to a guy who wanted my ICG Century loco 
Ah I'll find all of the ICG I had again someday 
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Posted - August 12 2021 : 11:14:40 PM
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Ben, both of those UPs look like Bachmann to me. It’s cool that they have different numbers though.
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Posted - August 12 2021 : 11:17:26 PM
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The triple dome obsession has gone off on its first tangent:
These look like the Tyco version except they have brakewheels and the kingpin holes are in a different location.
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Posted - August 12 2021 : 11:25:45 PM
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quote:Ben, both of those UPs look like Bachmann to me. It’s cool that they have different numbers though.
Originally posted by gmoney - August 12 2021 : 11:14:40 PM
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oh sorry I think one is a Lionel 
my apologies
Anyway this IS a Tyco hehe
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 02:58:50 AM
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Hey Buss, I got that one too!
The chugger is missing but I want to replace the underframe anyway.
. . . slip sliding awaaaay! 
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 8:44:50 PM
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This one came about as a result of the 40ft high cube thing, which started with the Tyco Soo Line 40ft high cube, which I bought because I thought it was a nice addition to the Tyco 62ft Soo Line high cube I've had for 40+ years. This one completes the Tyco 62ft high cube collection:
Wheeeeeeee!!!!!
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 9:07:21 PM
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More Tyco 40ft Hi-Cubes:
I need to dig out the Soo and post a picture of it too.
Now I just need to find the ICG boxcar and the Tyco Hi-Cube collection is complete. And I’m also looking for standard underframes for the Chug Chugs.
Bachmann NYC:
You can tell from these photos the Bachmann has better detail relief. I have no idea how many Bachmann liveries there are so no clue how close to complete my collection is.
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 9:15:23 PM
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Yet another Tyco Virginian operating hopper. Next, I’m getting another hole in my head!
I found my second Armour/Kahn’s error car at the first train show I attended since Covid hit. This one is in very good shape, with all its corner steps, and I got it for two bucks. 
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 9:33:06 PM
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I found a second Tyco Morrell’s Pride reefer at the first train show since Covid. I didn’t need this one but it‘s nice and was only two bucks.
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 9:47:12 PM
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It seems that I have started collecting these too!
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 10:01:32 PM
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I looked through some of my collection and discovered I have these Life Like Shows flats:
Notice the lettering is offset from one to the other.
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 10:05:53 PM
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I’ve found quite a few cars I haven’t posted here! Here’s a third Pennsylvania flat:
All three happen to have different road numbers. This one appears to be older because it has a separate cast metal underframe:
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 10:08:18 PM
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And yet more Varney/Life Like flats:
SLSF and my first silver NYC.
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 10:42:30 PM
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...and I found two more Bachmann 40ft Hi-Cubes:
The Rio Grande is missing a wheelset.
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 10:58:12 PM
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And even more hoppers, both quad and operating!
A Bachmann CN quad hopper:
. . . and my gazillionth B&M operating hopper:
And here is the final piece in the Tyco quad hopper collection - the Reading!
I now have all of Tyco’s road names and billboards.
( . . . Help . . .meeeeeee . . .)
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Posted - August 13 2021 : 11:51:48 PM
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quote:...and I found two more Bachmann 40ft Hi-Cubes:
The Rio Grande is missing a wheelset.
Originally posted by gmoney - August 13 2021 : 10:42:30 PM
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I have the RG one but not the Burlington
tho I do have a Lionel in BN hehe
I have a BnL boxcar that was a Tyco Soo Line boxcar
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 01:31:43 AM
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One can never have too many Virginian Hoppers.
I think...
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 10:26:20 AM
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I somehow have 4 of them! And don't even know where they all come from! I didn't like them until I got a really nice one in a group of several cars that I bought!
However, on the slipey slope, I have finally found a flat spot! 
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 7:46:24 PM
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you remember this $10 train show purchase?
well I found 2 moar at another flea market today
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 8:49:05 PM
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Busss, the BnL looks somewhat plausible; where’dja get it?
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 9:05:40 PM
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I have too many Virginian hoppers, Chops.
Will I get more? Absolutely!
Especially if I find them for $2, or I find one that’s missing it’s herald - I don’t have one like that yet!
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 9:32:39 PM
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quote:Busss, the BnL looks somewhat plausible; where’dja get it?
Originally posted by gmoney - August 14 2021 : 8:49:05 PM
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Its custom made & I wants a whole BnL train now
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 10:01:40 PM
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I found even more quads packed away:
The UP is Bachmann, the Rio Grande is I don’t know.
...I need help...
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 10:03:29 PM
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I was also on the slope at one time!
 
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 10:08:22 PM
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Apparently I have inadvertently started yet another collecting tangent. I realized I have all of these:
I don’t even know what all else is included in this segment...J. C. Penney’s I guess...
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 10:19:27 PM
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Walt, that’s an impressive collection of Tyco piggybacks! I even see a few Santa Fes with the herald in the alternate position. I don’t see any of your Bubble Yums though. 
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Posted - August 14 2021 : 10:33:17 PM
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I forgot about this one since it’s part of my Christmas train, so it has never made it into this thread. The North Pole & Southern quad hopper:
. . . And here is one of the uncommon yellow Tyco Burlington Northern plug doors:
I found this one at a local antique mall. I now have two or three of these.
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Posted - August 15 2021 : 12:16:03 AM
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I believe those yellow BN's are hard to come by. Walt gave me one,
and I enjoy it to this day.
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Posted - August 15 2021 : 04:54:48 AM
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quote:Walt, that’s an impressive collection of Tyco piggybacks! I even see a few Santa Fes with the herald in the alternate position. I don’t see any of your Bubble Yums though.
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Thank You, Glenn... I have at least 10 of all the Tyco trailers and more of some. I was on the slippery slope badly with these a few years ago. I never even noticed that I had no Bubble Yum pics there! This pic was when I was chasing my 9th & 10th one! 
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quote:I looked through some of my collection and discovered I have these Life Like Shows flats:
Notice the lettering is offset from one to the other.
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I like these Circus flat cars. They are quite heavy with the metal parts instead of plastic.
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Posted - August 15 2021 : 10:55:31 AM
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Oh yeah! I forgot!
aside Tropicana I needs Bubble Yum trailers
hey I thought of a funny opposite one to NP&S years ago
South Pole & Northern
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Posted - August 16 2021 : 01:45:43 AM
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Yet another Varney/Life-Like flatcar:
I now have at least two SL-SFs.
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Posted - August 16 2021 : 01:54:08 AM
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Another couple of quad hoppers . . .
AHM Peabody Short Line:
I already have a Rivarossi PSL hopper which was probably also sold by AHM.
And my first Lionel:
I thought the Lionel was a Bachmann until I got home and put on my reading glasses!
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Since I already have two of these and they’re the reason I got this one, I guess it belongs here too:
A Red Box Tyco Wabash Avenue trolley.
Now I have to find the other two . . .
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Nice cars!
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Posted - August 18 2021 : 11:47:31 PM
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SEE?? I have the boxcar just not the trailers!
I noticed it was marked as Florida East Coast too
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Posted - August 18 2021 : 11:58:34 PM
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Posted - August 19 2021 : 12:12:51 AM
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quote:Nice cars!
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Thanks RP!
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Posted - August 22 2021 : 12:27:58 AM
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More triple domes!
Union 76. Meh…already have one; now I have another:
Exxon. This is a new one for me:
…and Sohio!
Now, strangely, I’m missing Mobil.
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Thanks Walt!
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…and Sohio!
Now, strangely, I’m missing Mobil. Â
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well I'M missing Sohio!
may have a extra Mobil but not sure
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Posted - August 24 2021 : 01:19:15 AM
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well I KNOW I has the red one
but I found the Thrall Door Purina Feeds boxcar I have
You know you fell down the Slippery Slope when.....
you buy ALL of ONE railroad!
need a truck for my one RG Coach
maybe a dummy RG loco too hehe
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Posted - August 24 2021 : 3:18:20 PM
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That looks like a good start, Ben!
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quote:That looks like a good start, Ben!
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yes! but I forgot to include the hi-cube boxcar 
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Posted - September 16 2021 : 10:15:26 PM
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My latest purchase is this perfect SOHIO 3 dome tanker. Had a good looking one but wanted a really nice one! https://www.ebay.com/itm/154582951596?nma=true&si=v%252BjFElcpUwlt0%252FY94lFbUgD5V3s%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
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Posted - September 29 2021 : 11:55:12 PM
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Here’s the latest addition to the Tyco promotional car collection:
1170
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Posted - September 30 2021 : 01:24:45 AM
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When I first saw this thread, maybe ten years ago, already(?), I thought
heh, heh, what a funny thread title. Then proceeded to collect every
sort of Tyco billboard I could get my paws on, plus quite a few LL
versions. The more stuff kept piling in, as people were eager to clear
their garages.
Just finished auctioning off the excesses of my youth, on feeBay, one of
them being a large box with maybe, I dunno, 70 freight cars, and pending
is an equally large box of pieces of freight cars. In three successive waves,
I managed to net about $750, after feeBay generously helped themselves
to a portion of the gross.
What will I do with this windfall? Buy more model trains. I don't have
a Tyco Australian piece yet, and I am eyeballing a nifty Lima Spanish
State Railways, trying to shake the seller down from his asking price.
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