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 Posted - December 04 2007 : 8:57:03 PM
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Mocked up or mucked up,you decide. It is big, that's for sure. I googled the real ones and it wasn't a bad try for TYCO. -Bob   
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Posted - December 04 2007 : 10:17:14 PM
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| Now that is unique...and I thought their GG! was a hoot.[8D]
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Posted - December 04 2007 : 10:17:46 PM
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Looks like they had a few Athearn shells lying around... the pedigree is obvious. Decent jobs on the nose and rear end though.
Guess the Super 630 wasn't big enough [:D] But what was their fascination for odd, rare real-world locomotive bombs?
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Posted - December 04 2007 : 10:53:14 PM
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Today it is a bomb, in the 70's it was probably the future...... -Bob
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Posted - December 04 2007 : 10:57:45 PM
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Man I sure do like that! That thing with a PT could hardly pull its self I bet LOL. You`re right though it is kind of a muck up. The rivet counters would have a field day with this one! But hey , they`re toy trains and they`re supposed to be fun. Hats off to you on sharing this one with us Bob!
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Posted - December 05 2007 : 02:20:51 AM
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WOW!
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Edited by - Ray Marinaccio on December 05 2007 02:23:21 AM
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Posted - December 05 2007 : 02:26:38 AM
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Hey Guys:
If my Mom was alive she'd say that was; "so ugly it's cute!"
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 Posted - December 05 2007 : 09:29:33 AM
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WOW! What a fantastic TYCO What-If!!! Imagine that U50C wearing Rocky Mountain Lines or Silver Streak paint!
TOO COOL!
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Posted - January 27 2008 : 11:20:58 PM
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| OOPs, I should have transferred that to the ugly forum.
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Posted - January 29 2008 : 10:50:44 PM
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| Imagine if they packaged that sucker into a train set? The oval of track it came with would have had to take up a whole room!
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Posted - January 30 2008 : 3:59:34 PM
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No, that needs to be moved to the fugly forum. [xx(]
Was there heavy drinking in Tyco's design department in the late 70's? [:O)]
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Posted - May 17 2009 : 07:08:31 AM
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I saw a neat 630 painted for UP on the "Bay. I see this uses early 630 trucks.
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Posted - May 17 2009 : 09:46:43 AM
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dang  almost as long as UPs Centennials  is the loco supposed to have something on the front or not? neat looking tho
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Posted - May 17 2009 : 5:21:45 PM
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Wow -- I guess I've mellowed -- it doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought when I made my first comment. 
It looks like the fuel tank is one big piece of Zamac. Probably more Athearn parts. Must be heavy.
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Posted - May 17 2009 : 5:26:45 PM
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Wow! Wonder what the maximum turn radius is on that thing!
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 Posted - May 17 2009 : 8:33:42 PM
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Probably why the "Ugly Duckling-to-be" doesn't have couplers...
...It would derail anything it was coupled with on one of those puny 18" curves!!! Then again, the ladders in the back are pretty far apart, perhaps when couplers would be attatched, there'd be 'nough swivel room?.....
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Posted - May 17 2009 : 8:43:18 PM
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It looks like it would've actually had body-mounted couplers. But the grilles on the sides look nothing like the prototype to me. 
    
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Posted - May 18 2009 : 12:06:46 AM
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Ddin't the prototype have 4 B trucks? That's something they weren't about to tackle.
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Posted - May 18 2009 : 01:26:01 AM
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quote:Ddin't the prototype have 4 B trucks? That's something they weren't about to tackle.
Originally posted by NickelPlate759-May 18 2009: 12:06:46 AM
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Close. The U50 had 4 B trucks, yes, but the U50C had two C-C trucks.
Either way, the fangs don't fit.
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Posted - May 20 2009 : 5:19:38 PM
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quote:| That thing with a PT could hardly pull its self I bet LOL. |
originally posted by ILUVBUDWSR
Based on the truck covers both having screws in them I say this has 2 powered trucks. Usually only the powered truck has the screw because it's there to hold the middle gear in place on the early 630 Alco PTs. I have occasionally dropped the middle screw, and lost it on a regular PT, and not having it in place it would cause the middle gear to not stay seated properly under power.
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