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The Rich Foods and the Giant Open Market wood side reefers from the 1961 Grocery Store Sets, the Starkist Tuna box cars and bobber caboose from the mid 50's, the RCA cars from the 50's and the Kraft "Jet Puffed Marsh Mellows" wood side reefer from the early 60's. Originally posted by waw47 - March 15 2016 :  5:52:00 PM

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Any Tyco locomotive with a PT motor that works more than fifteen minutes without going up in smoke. Originally posted by Chops124 - March 15 2016 :  5:53:23 PM

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Correction, it is a Chatanooga Choo Choo that is up for sale. If you haven't seen the Tyco television ad of this sweet heap, you need to look it up under U Tube. It is hilarious. Aye, show me an image of that Starkist, someone please. I got a couple of the fifty footers, want to see what this is about. Can I retire rich?? Originally posted by Chops124 - March 18 2016 :  7:00:25 PM

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A quick look on Ebay shows that the Green BN boxcar is especially rare...right up there with the silver Virginian coal hopper.... Originally posted by shaygetz - March 18 2016 :  7:24:59 PM

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A quick look on Ebay shows that the Green BN boxcar is especially rare...right up there with the silver Virginian coal hopper.... Originally posted by shaygetz - March 18 2016 :  7:24:59 PM

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There a lot of rare and hard to find pieces out there. I was fortunate to find a number of pieces when eBay was new and there may have been only 800 pieces listed at any given time. Didn't know at the time that they were rare. Seems like the Tyco craze caught on, probably in large part to the advent of this site. In the early days of this forum, it seemed everyone was learning about Tyco and the net result was a working knowledge in the collecting community of what was less common. And it seems instantly things became even harder to find, or much pricier. My less common pieces that I have in my collection include: CP 50' Box Car in Red CP 50' Box Car in White Hooker Tanker in Black Maxwell House Hopper Sohio Triple Dome Canadian Pacific 40 Ft Box Car UP Passenger Set (although I want another coach for a new wall I am planning of just Tyco Passenger Sets) Desenex 50' Boxcar Santa FE Shock Control 40' Reefer Purina Red Roof 40' Reefer Flat with Kenworth Cabs (353) Single Dome Hercules Tanker Brach's Operating Hopper Maxwell House 50' Boxcar There are many more out there. My white whale is the Whirlpool 50' Boxcar. I saw one once in the early days of ebay. I bid $100 (crazy for then and my wife would have killed me) I never expected it to go near that, but I just didn't want to lose. Well, I lost. Never saw one again. I guess since when I started collecting Tyco, it was for the Billboard Boxcars, the Whirlpool is of special interest to me. I never imagined I'd have this many pieces now. I even limited myself to diesel era, no steam. I still enjoy collecting, usually in spurts every few years. If I finish my new wall of passenger cars to add to my Slice of Woodbury display, I will post pics here. Feel free to keep sharing your rare finds. It certainly keeps me frustrated interested. Glad this Forum is still going strong. Scott Originally posted by scmich - March 28 2016 :  9:14:20 PM

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Yardmaster - I don't think the Gerber car would be considered rare, but some of those billboard/advertising cars seem to get premiums and are becoming scarcer due to other collectors outside of trains collecting these items because of the advertising and brands on them. Coco Cola being the most extreme example of that phenomenon probably. I do have the original version of the Bicentennial Cars, as well as the short stripe and long stripe versions. Probably paid less than $20 each or less, way back when. They still pop up occasionally on eBay, although rarely all three in one auction, and I've never seen a boxed set. The three original versions are among my favorite pieces. Scott Originally posted by scmich - March 29 2016 :  09:45:35 AM

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There a lot of rare and hard to find pieces out there. I was fortunate to find a number of pieces when eBay was new and there may have been only 800 pieces listed at any given time. Didn't know at the time that they were rare. Seems like the Tyco craze caught on, probably in large part to the advent of this site. In the early days of this forum, it seemed everyone was learning about Tyco and the net result was a working knowledge in the collecting community of what was less common. And it seems instantly things became even harder to find, or much pricier. My less common pieces that I have in my collection include: CP 50' Box Car in Red CP 50' Box Car in White Hooker Tanker in Black Maxwell House Hopper Sohio Triple Dome Canadian Pacific 40 Ft Box Car UP Passenger Set (although I want another coach for a new wall I am planning of just Tyco Passenger Sets) Desenex 50' Boxcar Santa FE Shock Control 40' Reefer Purina Red Roof 40' Reefer Flat with Kenworth Cabs (353) Single Dome Hercules Tanker Brach's Operating Hopper Maxwell House 50' Boxcar There are many more out there. My white whale is the Whirlpool 50' Boxcar. I saw one once in the early days of ebay. I bid $100 (crazy for then and my wife would have killed me) I never expected it to go near that, but I just didn't want to lose. Well, I lost. Never saw one again. I guess since when I started collecting Tyco, it was for the Billboard Boxcars, the Whirlpool is of special interest to me. I never imagined I'd have this many pieces now. I even limited myself to diesel era, no steam. I still enjoy collecting, usually in spurts every few years. If I finish my new wall of passenger cars to add to my Slice of Woodbury display, I will post pics here. Feel free to keep sharing your rare finds. It certainly keeps me frustrated interested. Glad this Forum is still going strong. Scott Originally posted by scmich - March 28 2016 :  9:14:20 PM

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The Tyco super heros box cars are very rare and quite pricey . (Bat Man Super Man Wonder Woman and Shazam) They only made them for one year. Originally posted by yardmaster54 - April 14 2016 :  12:16:14 AM

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quote: The Tyco super heros box cars are very rare and quite pricey . (Bat Man Super Man Wonder Woman and Shazam) They only made them for one year. Originally posted by yardmaster54 - April 14 2016 :  12:16:14 AM Oh you mean these? you know Shazam is Captain Marvel & was not originally a DC Comic character? Shazam is what Billy Batson says to become Captain Marvel Why Tyco didn't use Captain Marvel is anyone's guess & a mystery Originally posted by microbusss - April 14 2016 :  2:47:52 PM

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As to Shazam Marvel comics has characters from the Kree aliens known as Mar-vel a.k.a Captain Marvel Copyright issues Essentially the big red cheese goes by either Shazam or Captain Marvel Originally posted by thesiding - April 16 2016 :  12:01:43 AM

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How about the Popsicle Twin Treat car? This is the only one I've ever seen. Originally posted by oldtimer52 - April 16 2016 :  5:42:19 PM

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How about the Popsicle Twin Treat car? This is the only one I've ever seen. Originally posted by oldtimer52 - April 16 2016 :  5:42:19 PM

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I just found one of these for sale: Seller won't give a price. He says "best offer". That frustrates me! He says only 50 were made. Is this true? Any idea as to what it is worth? It'd be cool to have on the shelf. Originally posted by IslandTrains - April 17 2016 :  09:16:11 AM