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 Posted - April 16 2018 : 12:35:05 PM
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One of our former members and the original founder of this forum had a very nice resource site that I try to look at once on a while but often it is a hit and miss situation. If I type in tycotrains.tripod.com it may sent me to site or it sends me to another site that I think is involved with but the information is not as easily accessible. If I get to that first site and click on say locomotives it sends me to the Whiteriver Productions site.
The site was Tony Cooks HO Scale Trains Resource. It had redbox and brownbox info but you click and it leads you to the other site. Once in a while you'll stay on the original site but can't easily go back later. I have heard something about a server change being an issue?
Anyone else notice this or care?
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Edited by - Alco Fan on April 16 2018 12:49:24 PM
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Posted - April 16 2018 : 3:21:33 PM
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Yes, I am experiencing the same issue. I actually found Tony's "Brown Box Resource" a long time ago, before I even knew that much about Tyco, and found it quite inspiring. Today, I still turn to it for the very same inspiration, and information on Tyco pieces of interest. 
I thought I discovered somewhere that the old website was being updated to a new server, and new look, and that now, the "new website" is compiling information from the old sites, per day.
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Posted - April 16 2018 : 5:22:20 PM
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I likes the old site better myself
Least it had 95% pf the cars & locos in there
the 5% being the Life-Life Juicy Fruit Gum & Twinkies boxcar hehe
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Posted - April 17 2018 : 02:01:21 AM
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| Lifeless made a Juicy Fruit??? Twinkies, I gotz.
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Posted - April 17 2018 : 4:00:10 PM
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quote:Lifeless made a Juicy Fruit??? Twinkies, I gotz.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 17 2018Â :Â 02:01:21 AM
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yep
this one sold for $44 on Ebay
I need one too!
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Posted - April 20 2018 : 11:48:12 AM
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Why thank you, Ben. And may I say just one thing:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
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Posted - April 20 2018 : 12:57:54 PM
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quote:Why thank you, Ben. And may I say just one thing:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 20 2018Â :Â 11:48:12 AM
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yeah Wish I had one too  
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Posted - May 30 2018 : 4:18:53 PM
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| Yes, everything that was on the original ho-scaletrains.net server seems to have vanished into thin air (good thing archive.org exists). I seriously hope the original site wasn't killed off just to sell printed media, as that is what the current .com site seems to be about rather than being a resource as it's called - it doesn't take a year to FTP a hundred or so meg from one website to another, update the page layout and get everything working. Maybe it's time for a wiki (just don't use Wikia/Fandom, ugh)...
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Posted - May 30 2018 : 7:45:03 PM
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Chop & Buss, you mean one of these cars??
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Posted - May 30 2018 : 7:45:23 PM
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Yes, I too liked the old site.
One of the many projects I have ongoing is a search engine to look for certain keywords and to provide any and all hits. So far, I have it working for Lionel HO. I had begun on Tyco, but simply haven't had the time to work on it. Here is a screen shot of the primary search page. One thing I couldn't figure out is how/where to put it out on the WWW?
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Posted - May 30 2018 : 10:52:19 PM
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quote:
yeah but this the ONLY gum boxcar I wants
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Posted - May 31 2018 : 01:22:10 AM
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https://youtu.be/HoQmJYy0y9c
Why thank you Old Timer, that is most pleasant of you.
And may I add,
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted - December 05 2019 : 10:07:14 PM
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I discovered a interesting Facebook page devoted to Tyco trains.
https://m.facebook.com/tycocollectors/
They show some other companies trains as well.
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