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 Posted - October 26 2006 : 10:25:12 PM
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So I found myself having to dig through the ol’ rummage bin the other day, looking for some trucks and wheels and parts for a few new acquisitions, when I came across a sad candidate to cannibalize:
Oh, poor old GI Joe tanker, resplendent in the crude Testor’s gloss black paint job I gave you when I was 10, hoping to make a UTLX tanker like what I actually saw on the real rails. How sad thy busted walkways, how lost thy brakewheel in the shag carpets of yore. How noble thine final gasp of donating thine trucks to…
And then I stopped in my tracks, for THESE were no ordinary Tyco freight trucks:
Indeed, they had what looked like a KINGPIN… and thin metal axles that spun slicker than a greased oinker on a slip n’ slide. Those sure look like Tyco talgo draft-gear boxes, but say what? Had I already cannibalized some other donor freight car for these trucks and installed them here, years ago, and forgotten? Surely, I couldn’t be certain. But there was one other:
Oh, poor GI Joe flat, in your crude EJ&E paint job with white-out lettering, that I didn’t mind so much because all the real EJ&E cars I ever saw looked like crap. The one truck I weathered with chunky oil paint from a Sears art set. Perhaps thoust the answers?
Indeed! The same freespinning, kinpinned trucks present here! I KNEW there was a reason I couln't part with that poor survivor… it only took me, uh, 23 years to figure it out?
Has anyone else seen these? Any GI Joe set owners out there?
I tell you… a few more of these trucks would make ANY powertorque pull its own weight and then some….!
-Tony L. "GIC"
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 Posted - October 26 2006 : 10:48:26 PM
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re: kingpin trucks:
A Roco PennCentral for Tyco eight wheel caboose so-equipped immediately springs to memory. I thought it unusual at the time.
MagAc
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Posted - October 26 2006 : 10:55:23 PM
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*hears voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi* "There are more...."
When was that Roco-8 released? GIJoe was around '84... I wonder how many more of these trucks are out there, and what in deity's name possessed Tyco to do something so strange (for them at least)?
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Posted - October 26 2006 : 11:04:46 PM
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Roco PC was obtained minus-set in a plain brownbox wrapper as it were.
No real markers from which to garner year of manufacture. Bought the thing cuz it was Roco/Tyco. Maybe your topic will instigate a rash of "Tyco-Tipping" and others will chime in.
"Moo"gAc
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