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Posted - October 04 2015 : 11:14:12 AM
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Anybody know more about these sets? I guess Tyco did a number of them for various chains and they're all fairly scarce.
Internet search shows me one variant, PRR F7 and bobber, Stewart's reefer, Stewart's skid flat car with pipes, track, knob transformer. Red box cover.
Mine is the UP GP20 box art, Santa Fe loco & bobber, Monon gon with pipes, Stewart's reefer, and it has a slot-car controller to run it. GC-64 on the end flap.
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 11:49:25 AM
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There are at least 7 sets.
1. ? Is either Unity or Giant Open Air Market. 2. Stewarts w/ Stewart Flat Car 3. ? Is either Giant Open Air Market or Unity. 4. Genuardi / Martels 5. Thriftway Foods Inc. 6. Montco 7. Rich Foods w/ Rich Foods Flat Car
There is a Frankford Quaker Oates Flat, that goes with one of the sets.
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 12:09:07 PM
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My set is none of those, and although the box is in poor shape the contents appear to have never been out of the packaging. As noted, a Monon gondola replaces the flat car, the transformer is different, the entire box insert is different.
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 12:42:14 PM
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The set box lid will have GROCERY STORE SET #__ 1963 on it.
They came with a green PRR F7, red PRR bobber caboose, a flat car with red tubes, grocery store reefer, small Tyco power pack and a set of track.
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 1:18:00 PM
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Montco Set
http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6490&SearchTerms=Montco
It appears that Tyco produced the Stewart Set for two years. I have never seen this version. I wonder what the C stands for in "GC-64".
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 5:15:21 PM
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I have a few of these cars, but I never knew they went to a set. 
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 5:16:15 PM
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I have a few of these cars, but I never knew they went to a set. 
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 5:27:54 PM
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GT-64
T224-D Santa Fe blue/yellow F9 T310-F Gondola with pipes Monon T329-? Stewart's Groceries reefer T309-F Santa Fe bobber caboose
Tyco-trol pistol grip speed control Transformer Circle Atlas track including terminal
All items in cardboard insert tray, no boxes
Paperwork including small catalog, warranty info, service station info, other misc sheets
Apparently all sets came with the slot car speed control for at least one year.
Box art shows UP GP20 loco in large watercolor print and one end panel also hawks Tyco slot cars.
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 7:42:51 PM
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set no 2 powerpack is missing,not mine snatched off internet

catfordken if you cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel,try turning around
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 10:23:37 PM
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all I wants from either set is the boxcar!
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Posted - October 05 2015 : 2:11:06 PM
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Yes, as I said before, the set I have is NOT the pictured set. The box is different, the contents are different.
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Posted - October 05 2015 : 2:16:06 PM
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so you must have set 1 matey
catfordken if you cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel,try turning around
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Posted - October 05 2015 : 3:53:45 PM
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I surmise that GT-64 stands for Grocery Train 1964.
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Posted - October 13 2015 : 07:11:55 AM
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Here are mine.



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Posted - October 13 2015 : 07:59:26 AM
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Here are mine.



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Posted - October 13 2015 : 08:33:53 AM
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Nice collection, The Rich Food and Giant Open Air Market are the rarest. The Stewarts Grocery Products seems to be the most common of the Grocery Set Reefers.
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