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Interesting point, but did IHC do Billboards?
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quote:Interesting point, but did IHC do Billboards?
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â March 06 2022Â :Â 2:23:28 PM
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YES I have a couple 1 is Woolworth's I have a ex-Tyco caboose in Fuji Film I just saw some Kool-Aid hoppers when I searched for IHC HO Billboard *drooool* course I need the one by Life-Like too
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Posted - March 06 2022 : 11:09:26 PM
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Check your TOPPS car carefully Chops. I see decal film. With another look, do you see it too?
I agree with G-Money that IHC acquired Tyco tooling. The 62 foot modern boxcar is one style for sure. That O-N hopper is really cool. That road name was not too common other than on Athearn and MDC and the lone L-L GP-38/40. Excellent catch there!
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Still not sure who did this one, then. The shell could be grafted onto another chassis. The red trucks seem characteristic of the AHM Illinois Central Terminal, maybe?
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Posted - March 07 2022 : 12:20:32 PM
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Is it riding on an Athearn chassis, Chops? Whatever its provenance, its a sweet plugger!
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At the Asheville train show, I also picked up another set of the two variations of Tyco's last Santa Fe plug door scheme:
I gotta get a handle on this obsession with variations...
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Another Asheville acquisition, this one carries the very common white & yellow ATSF scheme, but it appeared that it might be printed on the salmon-colored body shell of the original issue car that had the all-white lettering:
When I got home I compared it to an original issue car:
It is similar in color, but not quite the same. I do not have the more common version of the car handy, so I can't make a comparison to it, but I'm pretty sure it's a darker red. I don't know if I have anything unusual here or not...
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Interesting variants!
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Posted - March 08 2022 : 01:23:26 AM
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quote:I have my doubts that Athearn made anything with filled in corner steps. The tooling looks like Tyco (mounting bosses for the electronic chug hardware inside the shell would confirm that), but I agree Tyco didn’t make it. I believe IHC acquired the tooling?
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I have to agree with Glen here. I've built enough Athearn kits over the years. They had a distinct way of doing things that make their cars easily identifiable. Glen touched upon the filled in stirrups. That was a Tyco thing, as was the molded in roofwalk. On an Athearn, the roofwalk would be a separate piece simulating the later metal grate roofwalks. Flipping the car over to look at the underside, an Athearn car would have screw mounted trucks, a steel weight sandwiched between the underframe and the car floor, and most distinctive of all, body mounter couplers held in place by a metal clip. It would appear this car has none of these.
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I will take some more photos of it; great to have some fresh eyes on the case. This was my slip and slide on the slippery slope. Went nearly mad trying to find a Bubble Yum car.
Your nifty Tycos are quite shocking, G. Here is a shocking video I did a little while back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qkA1aT8ERI
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Posted - March 08 2022 : 02:57:02 AM
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That looks like some pretty nasty stuff right next to the caboose. Does the crew wear hazmat suits when they haul that stuff?
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Posted - March 08 2022 : 1:12:13 PM
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Great video- love the action and variety in the collection. I was surprised that your background music was able to cover the gear clicking that those Bachmanns usually feature!
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Posted - March 09 2022 : 12:07:26 AM
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The caboose next to the Fogite car appears to be glowing!
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Posted - March 09 2022 : 12:17:50 AM
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Back to the Bazooka car - the graphics do appear to be decals, as El Rojo Grande said, in which case it probably is a Tyco, and may or may not have the mounting bosses for the electronics. How’s about a picture of the underframe?
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I went to look for it, and could not find it for love or money. Maybe I left it at Jimmy's, will check later this week.
In the mean time, here is one close up I took when last seen:
That looks like silk screen or litho, to me. I don't see any decal edges. I cannot recall if the chassis was metal or painted silver.
Here is one that I think comes pretty close. I wonder if they are related:
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So I headed down the quad hopper rabbit hole last weekend at a train show in Mebane, NC…
Let’s start with a couple of Lionels:
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Next up, a Lionel B&M and AHM Lehigh Valley that look to have been produced from the exact same tooling:
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Posted - March 18 2022 : 11:54:27 PM
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Model Power ICG:
Slip . . . . .
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Posted - March 19 2022 : 12:03:13 AM
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Here are a couple from Bachmann:
I like these because they are “train set quality†cars that are also a realistically dull brown, with different car numbers.
Slip . . . . .
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Posted - March 19 2022 : 12:13:19 AM
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And here’s a shocker . . . another Virginian operating hopper:
Ssssssllllliiiiiippp . . . . .
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Here’s another one in the promo series:
. . . And the box it came in:
Sliding . . . . .
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. . . and here is the third (maybe fourth?) yaller Tyco Burlington Northern plug door boxcar to be added to my collection:
This one has a faded roof, though it’s not obvious in the picture.
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I added a second Tyco electronic chug chug boxcar to my collection:
I paid five bucks for it. I don’t think the seller knew what he had.
And even though the speaker had been hacked up:
It still works!
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I also added another AHM (Roco) Flexi-Flow hopper:
It’s missing the brake wheel stand.
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It’s been quite a while since I stumbled across a Tyco CenterFlow hopper I didn’t have yet; here is the easier-to-find version of the Kellogg’s, the one without the red letters:
I actually already have the harder-to-find red-letter version.
I always look over potential purchases for damage before I buy, but I didn’t see the broken end railing on this one until I got home.
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quote:It’s been quite a while since I stumbled across a Tyco CenterFlow hopper I didn’t have yet; here is the easier-to-find version of the Kellogg’s, the one without the red letters:
I actually already have the harder-to-find red-letter version.
I always look over potential purchases for damage before I buy, but I didn’t see the broken end railing on this one until I got home.
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well aside the 2 Kellogg's Frosted Flakes boxcars AHM made this too!
now I has them ALL hehe minus Lipton Tea & Niagara Starch Spray hoppers
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Posted - March 19 2022 : 9:26:04 PM
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Some time ago I acquired a dark green Tyco 50ft flat lettered for Great Northern, because for the first time I found one not lettered AT&SF! It came with the cribbing for the cable reels, but not the cable reels. I think I posted it in COTW or somewhere. Well, recently I found cable reels for it, which meant I also needed the Western Union version, so . . .
Apparently I need a third cribbing for the GN.
. . . . . still sliding . . . . .
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.... and sliding ....
Once you've started down that slippery slope, there is no going back!!!
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...and to go with the Tyco Quaker boxcar posted somewhere earlier in this thread is the “Tyco†Quaker Chemicals tanker:
The underframe on this one does not have the Tyco markings, so I suspect that this car was restored by using the underframe from a car produced by a subsequent owner of the Tyco tooling. It is also missing the dome platform. I intend to return it to an all-Tyco state.
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The quad hopper journey continues . . .
It appears Bachmann cheaped out on this one; it looks to be molded in red plastic with graphics printed directly on the unpainted plastic.
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Posted - April 06 2022 : 01:02:47 AM
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Here is Varney/Life-Like Pennsylvania flat #5:
This one is the version with the metal underframe.
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I have had relative difficulty finding Tyco operating hoppers lettered for Reading; I probably have 50+ of these things and this is only the third Reading I’ve found:
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This one is quite rare in my experience. I have seen only one other one in person (and I acquired that one); now I have two!
The Tyco Ralston Purina reefer in red, instead of the ubiquitous blue.
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quote:I have had relative difficulty finding Tyco operating hoppers lettered for Reading; I probably have 50+ of these things and this is only the third Reading I’ve found:
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Good find, gmoney. I've only seen the black version, never the dark green.
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It's black.
Don't trust the picture; it's had some processing to bring out the truck detail. I haven't figured out how to get good front lighting yet.
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Here's the latest promotional find - a Tyco Johnson Wax boxcar:
It has “Shout†graphics on the other side.
(Yes, I know I already posted this in the "HO Promotional Cars" thread! )
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One more for the quad collection!
I don't know who made this one. It resembles Tyco, but to my knowledge, Tyco never did this scheme. Maybe it was one of the outsourced cars Tyco sold there at the end.
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quote:This one is quite rare in my experience. I have seen only one other one in person (and I acquired that one); now I have two!
The Tyco Ralston Purina reefer in red, instead of the ubiquitous blue.
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"Hey, Harry- we're out of Ubiquitous Blue!" "Ah, heck, it's quittin' time, just run the thing! Not like some stupid kid's gonna notice, anyhow..."
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Posted - April 07 2022 : 01:23:46 AM
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. . . and now a few more CenterFlows - an AHM and two Bachmanns:
AHM:
Bachmann:
Bachmann Silver Series:
I still haven’t completed the Tyco CenterFlow collection and I’ve gone off on a tangent!
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G, you may have a problem. Call 1-800-Center Flows Anonymous. We may find you prowling dumpsters and thrift shops, pretty soon.
Got to say, though, the ATSF "Conditionare" is pretty slick...
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quote: AHM:
Originally posted by gmoney - April 07 2022 : 01:23:46 AM
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NEED this one & the Niagara Starch Spary too
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I attended a train show in Fort Mill, South Carolina today. I found a few items on the slope! First up I found the last Tyco 40ft high cube that I was missing – Illinois Central Gulf:
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Next up:
I had no idea AHM made a cable reel car, but since they did, and it looks an awful lot like Tyco’s, one came home with me! Here ‘tis:
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I picked up a couple of Tyco operating hoppers today; a topless Holly sugar that somebody weathered , but the prize is the Pennsylvania. I’ve been collecting these things for 10 years or more, and I found one Pennsylvania when I first started, and I hadn’t seen one since . . . until today! This one had to come home with me:
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Nice haul. It looks like the High Cube car is still minty fresh in the box.
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Yes, the high cube is quite nice!
I got some more Varney/Life-Like flats - I believe I already have two of these, but here is a third SLSF:
Also three(!) more NYC:
I already have a gajillion NYC’s.
But here is the first L&N:
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quote:I attended a train show in Fort Mill, South Carolina today. I found a few items on the slope! First up I found the last Tyco 40ft high cube that I was missing – Illinois Central Gulf:
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missing this cause I sold it with the ICG loco & caboose
Oh I has a NICE Holly Sugar
EDIT: cause I forgot to add the pic
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Yes you do has a NICE Holly Sugar
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I found another Tyco trolley:
MU-2 powered, but it doesn’t run.
I need to find the first two I bought (on impulse from a thrift store) because I don’t remember what livery they are wearing, and I might be duplicating!
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Oh my! Can you believe it? Another quad hopper! This one is my first Pemco:
Well . . . maybe. Remember the silver Rio Grande quad I posted a few days ago? I speculated then that it was really late Tyco, but turns out it’s identical to this one, except for the trucks. So maybe it’s a Pemco too, IDK.
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