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 Posted - December 04 2005 : 2:20:40 PM
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Hello:
I have been working on the Action Cars & Accessories section of the TYCO Trains Resource, take a look at some of the new pages...
This page contains info on TYCO's 1980s and later Pipe Loader accessories...
http://tycotrain.tripod.com/tycotrains/id80.html
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Edited by - Tony Cook on December 07 2005 1:11:59 PM
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 Posted - February 09 2006 : 1:30:17 PM
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| I'm not really into model railroading anymore although I am into modeling but I have a tyco piece of HO scale scenery that is like a little frieght station with a moving bull dozer that pushes pipe(3 pieces of culvert style) off a flat car onto a ramp that's positioned on the opposite side of the track. This piece would be from around the early to mid 70's era and I was wondering if anybody could give me some info on this piece since I don't see it shown on this site at all. Thanks
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Posted - February 10 2006 : 11:37:10 AM
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GBERR:
You are describing the #931 Freight Unloading Depot, listed at $8 or $9 depending on the year. It is a remote operated accessory that derives its power from the transformer as opposed to its predecessor, dating from 1964, essentially the same unit powered by batteries.
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Posted - February 10 2006 : 12:23:32 PM
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| Magnolia A thanks you are correct I found a picture on the back of an engine box last night that gives it that 931 number as well. I just happend to be cleaning out my garage and found my old boxes of trains and thought that I'd do some research on them and that's how I found this site. I thought it funny that this tyco resource site didn't picture this item. Do you know if this was not a common piece. I also have a mill that holds logs up on a high raised platform that you manually pull a lever and the logs slide down a chute into the mill then roll out the front of the mill onto the log car while another lever will tip the log car and let the logs roll into the river on the opposite side of the track(the track section is mounted to this piece of scenery). I've been unable to find any ID marks so far on this piece, does it sound familar to anyone here.
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Posted - February 10 2006 : 7:42:55 PM
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GBERR:
Your sawmill is an offering by Life-Like company and examples turn up with some regularity on eBay. Just scan offerings under Life Like and I'm sure you'll find a pretty good example for reference.
As to the Freight Unloading Depot: it is a fairly common accessory, showing up in variations dating from the '63/64 Tyco catalog on. It goes thru numerous minor alterations over the years, the biggest being the change from separate battery power to transformer power. Dating from this change, also, is the hand decoration (flocking, landscape, figures and hand-painting). Sadly, too, origin of manufacture changes at this point. Original Tyco Town Freight Handling Depot examples I've seen have no country of origin marked on the Depot. Only "TYCO" on the underside of the ramp and stair pieces. The packaging states: "manufactured by Mantua Metal Products, Woodbury Heights, New Jersey. These are all-American. The second generation Depots, first appearing in the '70/71 catalog as a "new" offering are identified from the start as products of "TYCO, Hong Kong."
Early Depot sets were available with and without skid flat car and generally sported a yellow Rock Island car and three long orange pipes. The "new" Hong Kong models have the three culvert pipe loads and seem to favor the Western Maryland skid flat.
The Depot was included in Tyco's big "Railroad Empire" train sets (with the die-cast Mikado steamers). It is also included in the No. 7950 "System 200 2-Train Set" from '75/6. Tyco's great Layout Expander System" layout, built by many a budding model railroader, prominently features the Unloading Depot.
Hope that answers some of your questions.
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