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One confusing aspect of the Tyco story for many regards Mantua and its relationship to Tyco. The name Tyco appears for the first time in 1952. The Tyler Manufacturing Company or Tyco was created at Mantua and began selling a product line under that brand that is often known to collectors as "the blue-box era". This moniker was created because Tyco offered kit versions and later ready-to-run(RTR) Tyco HO gauge Santa Fe Diesel Switcher circa 1970's versions of various steam and early diesel era model trains in a light-blue packaging. The growth in ready-to-run HO-scale train sets was the reason behind the creation of the TYCO nameplate in 1957. Mantua is considered the pioneer of the "ready-to-run" HO-scale model railroad kits under the Tyco brand. Many Tyco and Mantua die-cast products, such as steam engines, are collector's items today http://www.tcawestern.org/tyco.htm plus our man tony cooks version http://tycotrain.tripod.com/tycotrains/id64.htmlEdited by - catfordken on November 22 2013 11:39:11 AM
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