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 Posted - December 07 2014 : 09:51:44 AM
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Haulin' BIG this week for this post, I found a Bachmann Big Hauler "set" at my local thrift store I frequent. Price marked 14.90, wow, couldn't pass THAT up! Wasn't a cheesy plsastic-wheeled battery powered unit, either. When I got it home and started looking it over, I found one of the passenger cars is actually an LGB passenger car, in PRR. The Bachmann is an ATSF, as is the other passenger car. Oh well, I'm not complaining! I intend to run this G set on my outside G loop eventually.
Jerry
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 10:58:06 AM
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Sometimes good things DO come in big packages.
Great thrift store find.
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 11:01:19 AM
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That is pretty cool. Heck, the single coaches alone sell for more than how much you got the whole set.
-Steve
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 11:47:45 PM
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How about a set of Tyco hoppers with a couple of AHMs thrown in for good measure
Still on the look out for a Domino Sugar in good condition and a Kelloggs with a Red letter
A & B in "American Breakfast style" on the side
[URL=http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/jbsmith966/media/album2/002-5.jpg.html]  [/URL]
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Posted - December 08 2014 : 01:20:10 AM
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I has both versions of the Tyco Kellogg's but not the AHM version 
Nor the Lipton car 
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Posted - December 08 2014 : 07:12:23 AM
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Early Tyco Santa Fe 1890 passenger cars with a Tyco ATSF Roger locomotive of the same time 1968-69. It was a 4-6-0 type. I swapped drives with another TYCO old time 4-8-0 just to be different. I cant find in any catalog of the time where TYCO made a set using these cars. It seamed they should have.
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 12:19:14 AM
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quote:How about a set of Tyco hoppers with a couple of AHMs thrown in for good measure
Still on the look out for a Domino Sugar in good condition and a Kelloggs with a Red letter
A & B in "American Breakfast style" on the side
[URL=http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/jbsmith966/media/album2/002-5.jpg.html] [/URL]
Originally posted by jbsmith966Â -Â December 07 2014Â :Â 11:47:45 PM
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Now THAT's a helluva set. I got the Domino's, at a wicked price. I have read, and experienced,
that it is hard to get one without the blue paint flaking off. That Lipton's makes me howl with
jealousy. Never, ever, seen that one.
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 12:23:24 AM
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A reconstituted version of my first HO train set...The Chattanooga Choo Choo. I spent about 15 years or so gathering the various components from Ebay, flee markets, antique malls and train shows. The caboose was built from the best parts of three cabooses:
A composite shot of the entire consist - I couldn't get the entire train in one shot:
Here is my attempt to recreate the old JC Penney et al. catalogue pose:
And here's the extra stuff for added play value:
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 09:37:32 AM
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hey Glenn You have the right caboose but wrong name
Tyco did make a caboose like that with Chattanooga on it 
http://tycotrain.tripod.com/tycotrains/id88.html
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 4:05:46 PM
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Buss, I am well aware there are Chattanooga cabooses out there in both streamlined and extended vision versions. HOWEVER, the set I got in 1975 DID IN FACT have a SANTA FE EXTENDED VISION CABOOSE, so for my purposes, and per Tyco practice, THIS SET IS CORRECT!
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
Edited by - gmoney on December 09 2014 10:59:51 PM
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 10:31:39 PM
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THE INFORMER......
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 11:25:34 PM
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Originally posted by microbusss - December 09 2014 : 09:37:32 AM
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THE INFORMER......
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â December 09 2014Â :Â 10:31:39 PM
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Posted - December 10 2014 : 08:24:19 AM
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quote:Haulin' BIG this week for this post, I found a Bachmann Big Hauler "set" at my local thrift store I frequent. Price marked 14.90, wow, couldn't pass THAT up! Wasn't a cheesy plsastic-wheeled battery powered unit, either. When I got it home and started looking it over, I found one of the passenger cars is actually an LGB passenger car, in PRR. The Bachmann is an ATSF, as is the other passenger car. Oh well, I'm not complaining! I intend to run this G set on my outside G loop eventually.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â December 07 2014Â :Â 09:51:44 AM
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Hi Jerry. A nice photo of some big trains. I have never mixed my train except for once I made a mountain back in the corner of my layout and put some N gauge buildings and a train there. I hoped to make a seen of a town in the distance. I thought it looked Ok, but never did it again. I have used N gauge track coming out of a mine entrance with little mine carts on it. Back in the day AHM sold little mine carts. some that flipped to the side and some were just small hoppers. Maybe if I ever get a house I can build a real layout in, I'll do it again.
frank
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Posted - December 11 2014 : 5:09:47 PM
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OK... Finally have something to contribute here... My SOTW contribution is a Penn Line / Fleischmann collaboration Main Street of the Northwest Northern Pacific diesel ABA set:
Just purchased!
Sean
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Posted - December 11 2014 : 7:21:46 PM
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quote:Haulin' BIG this week for this post, I found a Bachmann Big Hauler "set" at my local thrift store I frequent. Price marked 14.90, wow, couldn't pass THAT up! Wasn't a cheesy plsastic-wheeled battery powered unit, either. When I got it home and started looking it over, I found one of the passenger cars is actually an LGB passenger car, in PRR. The Bachmann is an ATSF, as is the other passenger car. Oh well, I'm not complaining! I intend to run this G set on my outside G loop eventually.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â December 07 2014Â :Â 09:51:44 AM
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Love the Big Haulers! I have 4 sets, including the old battery powered set, but mine has a Barry's Big Trains drive in it. You got yourself a dang good deal for $14.90! Nice find!
~ Dave
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Posted - December 12 2014 : 09:58:53 AM
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| Nice sets. This one is two Burlington Northern units.  Making the 2 percent grade on the layout. 
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Posted - December 12 2014 : 2:00:53 PM
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WKS, I gotta say: I am loving that use of color on color.
This pic captures the drama of these animals fighting
gravity as they crest the hill. I can almost hear the
cacophony of twelve cylinder diesels torqued to the
limit.
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Posted - December 12 2014 : 2:01:49 PM
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GMoney: that is one fabulous reconsitution. Any kid who had that in the golden 70's would
have been the bomb! Terrific work, it must have taken some effort to re-assemble this
delightfully bizarre quilt of old and modern. Only Tyco would dream up something so
outrageous, and I love every bit of it.
Originally posted by gmoney - December 09 2014 : 12:23:24 AM
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Posted - December 12 2014 : 2:06:35 PM
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Better late than never, these Clementine pieces were picked from the back of
Tin Plate Henry's tailgate. Pulled by a rubber band drive Hustler.
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Posted - December 14 2014 : 3:40:27 PM
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quote:
GMoney: that is one fabulous reconsitution. Any kid who had that in the golden 70's would
have been the bomb! Terrific work, it must have taken some effort to re-assemble this
delightfully bizarre quilt of old and modern. Only Tyco would dream up something so
outrageous, and I love every bit of it.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â December 12 2014Â :Â 2:01:49 PM
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Thanks Chops! I might have been able to assemble it faster, but a lot of it is the thrill of the hunt, and to start with I was only replacing pieces I didn't still have. There was also a great deal of enjoyment in finding and assembling those three cabooses into one. As for the old/modern mix, 8-year-old Glenn didn't care one bit! (Neither does 47-year-old Glenn, for that matter!)
Glenn
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