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Midnight Thunder Caboose, is this real?

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bnsfIA
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Posted - December 18 2016 : 8:53:49 PM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Old-Tyco-Brown-Box-ULTRA-RARE-PROTOTYPE-8-Wheel-Caboose-MIDNIGHT-THUNDER-/391652642507?hash=item5b30510ecb:g:pfIAAOSwcUBYUglH

It's apparently "ultra rare" I have never heard of this before. Is it real?

Edited by - bnsfIA on December 18 2016 8:55:36 PM

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waw47
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Posted - December 18 2016 : 10:27:19 PM

Some info,

http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6177&SearchTerms=midnight+thunder

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Chops124
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Posted - December 19 2016 : 09:54:02 AM

Is that price real? I'm not that far gone, yet. Close up shows a distinct running of
colors from the white unto the blue.

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scmich
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Posted - December 19 2016 : 11:38:43 AM

This looks familiar enough to me to think that its is a prototype piece. I recall a while back seeing photos of a collection from a former employee of Tyco. There were mock ups of the Silver Streak that resembled nothing of what it was produced as. I recall several of those "fantasy" road names being mocked up to varying degrees of difference from the ultimate production version. I'm sure there was a mock up version of what became the Midnight Special. Just can't say for certain with my foggy memory that this was one of those pieces.

I also know that the collection of prototypes were sold off at some point.

Based on what the seller has been selling the past few months, he had a pretty extensive collection, including some of the harder to find pieces that don't pop up on ebay too often.

So for my two cents, I 'm saying it's probably a one off prototype when Tyco was working on concepts for those Fantasy Roads like Silver Streak, Midnight Special, even the colorful Chattonooga GP.

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Redwoods
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Posted - December 19 2016 : 12:49:38 PM

There is some discussion of Midnight Thunder on this page:

http://www.goingincirclez.com/TycoTrains/Guide/Preprods

Here it is courtesy the Wayback machine, because the link above is currently down:

http://tinyurl.com/TycoPreProds

Edited by - Redwoods on December 19 2016 12:51:18 PM

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Chops124
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