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I just received this locomotive and am trying to find out when it was made. The one by Tyco is a different color with different smoke stack and domes. Anyone have a Mantua catalog from the early to mid 60's? The roadname and loco name are both printed on the sides.



thanks in advance for any help.



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From the 60's. Part of the Tyco Red box era set "Petticoat Junction" set.
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Doers anyone GO to this site? jeeez http://ho-scaletrains.net/

http://www.ho-scaletrains.net/tycotrainsredboxtrainsets/id20.html here is the answer
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Went to the website and found the Tyco set. However, the locomotive they show is not like this one. The boiler and tender colors are different. I would think that it has been kitbashed, if the lettering was decals and not printed on.
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Went to the website, too. Found this dealer poster:
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sorry about my rant but I go to that site to see what I missing out of my collection
Plus I'd like to find this loco so I can do the one from BTTF 3
The one that pushed the Delorean
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The locomotive with the red tender is a catalog illustration. The locomotive with the gray tender is the way they were produced. I have never seen one with a red tender.
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Thanks. I can then presume that the gray boiler was also the original color. I know that the smoke stack is not. That is from a Rivarossi Genoa.
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quote:
sorry about my rant but I go to that site to see what I missing out of my collection
Plus I'd like to find this loco so I can do the one from BTTF 3
The one that pushed the Delorean

Originally posted by microbusss - October 16 2014 :  9:28:09 PM



Tyco made about a billion of these engines, they're not hard to find at all. The catalog illustration must be a pre-production prototype done with the Santa Fe red and green production loco. Santa Fe and Bicentennial are most common.
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