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Starting off this week's SOTW, I present something I just scored at my 2nd-job hobby shop, from an estate lot. First time I'd seen one of these in the iron, so I had to have it. Usually not a set collector, but I made an exception in this case.  Tyco Little Trains, I guess a mid-60's era set, looks complete except the track with it is all Atlas, not Tyco. I even got the original transformer for it, too! Has the Tyco Little Trains logo on that as well. The couplers have been replaced with some early Kadee type with long straight whisker pins hanging straight down, at least my co-worker said they are early Kadee. Never seen anything like them before. Box is decent, a bit of mold, but overall a nice set.
 
HOpe to set it up sometime and run it with the original transformer.
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 11:29:47 AM
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Um, correction, that is not a mid 60's set. That is, in a matter of fact, a mid 50's set. Here's a link to prove it. This is from Tyco's 1955 catalog. http://www.hoseeker.net/tycoinformation/tycocatalog50page4.jpgThe sad part is, I saw that exact caboose from the train set at a train show for $3 in very nice shape aside from the couplers being gone and the coupler slot being covered in crud. I'm still wondering if I should've gone for it.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 3:58:22 PM
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Olympic ski train by Bachmann, owned by Jose Enrique of the El Paso Model
Train Club, rounding on a corner module during a train show. Modules built in
1987, still in use today, weigh a %#$% ton.
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 7:34:18 PM
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quote:Um, correction, that is not a mid 60's set. That is, in a matter of fact, a mid 50's set.. This is from Tyco's 1955 catalog. The sad part is, I saw that exact caboose... at a train show for $3... I'm still wondering if I should've gone for it.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â January 25 2015Â :Â 11:29:47 AM
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Thanks for the time travel correction, so I went back in time another 10 years. LOL! Yeah, I haven't seen any Tyco cars with Little Trains printed on them, got to figure it wasn't a high volume set back then, or there'd be more of those out there. Cabooses are dirt common, so to rarely see one, must be low production numbers. Or everyone is holding on to them. At any rate, glad to know more about my new acquisition. Thanks!
Jerry
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 8:03:24 PM
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quote: quote:Um, correction, that is not a mid 60's set. That is, in a matter of fact, a mid 50's set.. This is from Tyco's 1955 catalog. The sad part is, I saw that exact caboose... at a train show for $3... I'm still wondering if I should've gone for it.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â January 25 2015Â :Â 11:29:47 AM
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Thanks for the time travel correction, so I went back in time another 10 years. LOL! Yeah, I haven't seen any Tyco cars with Little Trains printed on them, got to figure it wasn't a high volume set back then, or there'd be more of those out there. Cabooses are dirt common, so to rarely see one, must be low production numbers. Or everyone is holding on to them. At any rate, glad to know more about my new acquisition. Thanks!
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â January 25 2015Â :Â 7:34:18 PM
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No problem, man.It may not be exactly from Tyco's 1955 catalog (which I got from H0Seeker's Tyco page) but it's from around that time. Definitely a mid 50's product. Especially since they started using the Tyco name on it in the late 1950's.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 8:53:55 PM
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Wow, nice set! I've seen the engine & caboose separately at times, but this is the first I've seen the set with box.
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 10:48:53 PM
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My set of Tyco passenger cars.
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 10:52:08 PM
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quote:My set of Tyco passenger cars.
Originally posted by walt - January 25 2015 : 10:48:53 PM
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I want that set BUT in Union Pacific
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 10:58:37 PM
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| There's several really nice looking sets of Tyco passenger cars, Ben... I had a lot of Santa Fe pieces as a kid, so I bought the SF passenger set, though I had never had any passenger cars as a kid...
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Posted - January 26 2015 : 4:42:42 PM
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Petty Coat Junction.CF&W 4-6-0 and passenger set.
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Posted - January 26 2015 : 5:23:24 PM
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Great photo, Frank. I like the lighting, really brings out the details and colors.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 26 2015 : 6:38:24 PM
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quote:Great photo, Frank. I like the lighting, really brings out the details and colors.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â January 26 2015Â :Â 5:23:24 PM
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Yeah, definitely.
-Steve
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Posted - January 26 2015 : 6:58:02 PM
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Frank,
That is a busy great looking scene. Great collection too.
Regards, John
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Posted - January 26 2015 : 8:04:27 PM
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quote:Petty Coat Junction.CF&W 4-6-0 and passenger set.
Originally posted by toptrain - January 26 2015 : 4:42:42 PM
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I know it's incidental to the subject, but I like that collection of refrigerator cars in the foreground.
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Posted - January 26 2015 : 9:24:54 PM
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That's a pretty fine yard full of trains you got there Frank. quote:Petty Coat Junction.CF&W 4-6-0 and passenger set.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - January 26 2015 : 4:42:42 PM
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Posted - January 30 2015 : 9:16:44 PM
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I just got my SOTW this week (thanks raysouthernpac!). Three Tyco/Mantua ATSF streamliners and a Penn Line ATSF Full Dome car. I love these classic streamliner sets.
A closer shot of the full dome detail -
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 30 2015 : 9:51:12 PM
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quote: Yeah, definitely. I wouldn't mind getting ahold of something like that eventually.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - January 31 2015 : 12:00:27 PM
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quote:| I love these classic streamliner sets. |
There's just something about them that the new super-detailed cars don't quite capture. I'm loving all the passenger and vintage Tyco sets this week!
I'll toss in my 1960's Tyco ACL streamliner posing on my old layout.
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Posted - January 31 2015 : 12:57:29 PM
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I appreciate seeing that ACL lash-up Eric. I have never seen, or heard of, TYCO offering those. Cool
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Posted - January 31 2015 : 3:20:19 PM
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quote:I appreciate seeing that ACL lash-up Eric. I have never seen, or heard of, TYCO offering those. Cool
Originally posted by rbturner - January 31 2015 : 12:57:29 PM
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yeah The ACLs are from the Red Box Tyco era
Tyco also made Baltimore & Ohio The Royal Blue, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, CN , CP(want), D&RG(got), NH, PC, PRR, Southern Railway & Union Pacific(WANT!!)
http://www.ho-scaletrains.net/redboxerapassengercars/id1.html
& the 1890 passenger cars & combines too
Tyco RB had a F9 & a B unit in UP for the passenger set after using the GP20
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2240/2246925806_2aa862e960_o.jpg WANT!!!
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Posted - January 31 2015 : 4:01:43 PM
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quote:
Beautiful set! Have always liked the ACL color scheme
I agree, there's something about the old streamliner models that is hard to quantify in words. Early on, I never thought I was a huge fan personally (silhouettes in the windows? how un-prototypical!) until I got an ATSF set on my layout and watched it run - then I was hooked!
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 31 2015 : 6:29:01 PM
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quote: quote:
Beautiful set! Have always liked the ACL color scheme
I agree, there's something about the old streamliner models that is hard to quantify in words. Early on, I never thought I was a huge fan personally (silhouettes in the windows? how un-prototypical!) until I got an ATSF set on my layout and watched it run - then I was hooked!
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â January 31 2015Â :Â 4:01:43 PM
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And that my friends is what model railroading is about.
-Steve
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Posted - August 06 2015 : 12:19:31 PM
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(Just perusing the site and saw this) Actually "Little Trains" was used for only a year or two to introduce the Tyco brand. The set might be from 53 or 54. For anything 50's Tyco nothing beats this site for info - go to the home page and scroll down for all the 50's catalogs.
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Posted - August 06 2015 : 1:12:27 PM
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jerry set t3 was pre 1955,as it became t1003 after,ken
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