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 Posted - January 19 2008 : 7:53:55 PM
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Went to the The Great Lehigh Valley Train Meet today and picked up some Tyco...
First I picked up another "Shippers Express" this time its a "Eastern"
Then from the same guy I bought these "blue box" Tyco cars.
There was a lot of stuff to be had at this show but Im in between payweeks
so I took it easy.
Bob Taylor
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Posted - January 19 2008 : 7:57:54 PM
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| Didn't know tyco had blue box items--must be 50's era boxes?? Great finds Bob. I haven't seen any of those items at any shows here in my area. Lucky to find brown box items if any now at shows
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Posted - January 20 2008 : 12:56:26 AM
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Standard Tyco freight-car boxes were green and white and used the "Little Trains" shield logo from the late 40's through the mid-50's. They were standard heavy-duty kit boxes with no windows.
The blue box appeared in the 50's... with the trademark wraparound bubble cellophane. (Funny... when the term "blue box" is used most people think of Athearn, but they were yellow at this time... and when they changed to blue after a few years, they not-so-coincidentally picked the same exact robin's egg shade that Tyco had been using... cue conspiracy tin-hats).
The blue box was changed to red for the 60's (or because or Athearn...?) and simplified by changing the wraparound cello to a standard window... yet the layout and design (logos, location, etc) was much the same.
In the late 60's (1967...?) they put the TYCO logo top center and got cheap on the backside... no catalog.
Brown boxes and new Tyco "slot-car track" logo appeared in 1971, with major revisions in 1974/75. They stayed that way (with ongoing label and other minor changes) thru 1993.
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