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 Posted - August 08 2008 : 4:54:03 PM
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Hello All--Is it possible to date a So76 Super 630? I just got one in (see LOTW). It has a solid blue top, and has PT trucks with snap-on covers, AND a screw helping hold it together. Metal handrails come packed separately. I can send pic if that will help. Thanks!
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Posted - August 08 2008 : 5:12:33 PM
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| If it has one screw in the bottom of truck and the coupler pocket has "fangs" to hold onto truck--it is a 1 st generation power torque. Picture would be hel[pful. Aproximate date for this is 1974-1975 in which the 76 locomotives were being produced for America's big celebration.
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Posted - August 08 2008 : 7:50:20 PM
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| Thanks, BT. If it helps any, I didn't see anything like it in my '74 catalog. I found the paperwork, and the set is labeled "7878M/J.C Penney 926-1173, Super Spirit of '76 w/11 Cars." It came with an outer loop, 2 turnouts and an inner loop, with the log dump, PB terminal, crossing gate, lighted frt. sta., and service station. Chris
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Posted - August 12 2008 : 7:45:06 PM
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| Chris--that set was one the large Penny's store trains. Sears and Penny's both had huge train set packages available during the 70's from Tyco. My mom use to get the Christmas books in the fall for both and i can vivdly remember wearing those pages out hoping Santa would bring me one. I say you got a great score with the 76 gas station as that item is highly sought after in mint condition--I have one myself.
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Posted - August 12 2008 : 9:35:11 PM
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| BT, Thanks. I looked at Tony Cook's site, and I think it is probably from 1976. Penny's shows an identical set, although two of the freight cars are different, but that often happened. I can just remember being at Sears (very young) at the end of the red-box era, with the smells of the nuts and candies they sold, looking at the trains. My first set was in the last year of the red-box era.
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