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 Posted - September 03 2007 : 12:56:22 PM
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Been going thru' a box of old railway cars & found a TYCO red box ... " Box Car 50Ft Plug Door Santa Fe # 339A:300 with a Santa Fe El Capitan car inside .....
My question: Did TYCO bring this car out in the red box series, or was it a brown box model only?
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Posted - September 03 2007 : 2:19:10 PM
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The 50' Plug Door is new to the TYCO line in the mid '60s...and thus was around for the Red Box Era for around five years...
http://tycotrain.tripod.com/redboxerafreightcars/id32.html
/tyco/forum/uploaded/Tony Cook/tyco_package_red_box_50_plug_339a_atsf.jpg
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Edited by - Tony Cook on September 03 2007 2:20:19 PM
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Posted - September 03 2007 : 2:38:35 PM
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| Thanks Tony .... I only saw it ID'd in your brown box listing .... & I wasn't sure it was in the right box ....
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Posted - September 03 2007 : 3:26:18 PM
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Andrew;
can you change your font colour to something other than electric blue, it's killing my eyes!
-Cheers,
Gareth
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Posted - September 04 2007 : 11:39:32 AM
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| The El Capitan car that is all-white (no yellow at all) was exclusive to the Red Box era, made only the first year it was released. Any redbox 50' should have open stirrups.
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Posted - September 04 2007 : 6:57:11 PM
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Hmmm... OK.... this one has the deep yellow printing & closed stirrups ......
Sorry .. romcat ... hope this is better ...
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Posted - September 04 2007 : 6:58:23 PM
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Hmmm... OK.... this one has the deep yellow printing & closed stirrups ......
Sorry .. romcat ... hope this is better ...
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Posted - September 05 2007 : 01:49:18 AM
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ow...[B)] if you choose on having a dark blue background, that color isn't good, either. I have found that the lighter colors are most ledgeable on dark blue.
However, if you click and drag your courser/mouse over it, it does make it readable.
J
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Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - September 05 2007 : 2:33:47 PM
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Let me clarify:
If you find an El Capitan that is all white, it is from the first release in 1968, and ONLY belongs in a red box. 1969-1977 went to the yellow version.
"Open Stirrups" refers to whether or not you (or rather an "HO-scale you") could put your foot in the stirrup. In the mid-70's, tyco filled in the tooling and the stirrups are solid pieces. So a Yellow El Capitan with filled stirrups would only be brown-box. Open ones (as you pictured) could be red or brown.
Look at the Corner topic on boxcars for more info.
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Posted - September 13 2007 : 11:54:09 AM
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| Thanks "circles" ....
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Posted - September 13 2007 : 11:54:45 AM
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| Thanks "circles" ....
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