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 Posted - December 16 2005 : 9:47:23 PM
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While the saga of the late-brown-box era Tyco subcontractors, Mehano, Roco and their Hong Kong counterparts is being written of with some vigor, perhaps it is time to examine Tyler Company's role as a subcontractor to other train companies. As an example I point to that bastion of scale model railroading from Boyertown, PA, Penn Line. In at least two separate years Penn Line's magnificent scale diecast GG-1 and PRR steam engines were accompanied by Mantua/Tyco's 40 ft. box car offered in U.P. Route of the Streamliners livery and the M/T gondola in Penn Line's PRR paint. The variant paint is pure Penn Line, but the brown molded 40 ft. box is all Mantua/Tyco, right down to the door rails. Tyco's "Talgo" trucks, anathema to many scale modelers, were absent due to Penn Line using their own "Penn Line" marked cast frames ala Varney.
I'm curious to know whether anyone knows of similar Tyco subcontracted train offerings by other American train companies.
thanks,
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Posted - February 09 2006 : 7:06:23 PM
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More On the Mantua/Penn-Line connection:
I'm looking at Penn Line's 5901 freight set, their basic freight offering for 1959, sporting a Globe/Athearn EMD on Penn's heavy frame with a basic array of freight cars. The interesting car is Penn's Maine Central 40 ft. steel box. While the stamped Maine Central logo, routing info and car info is different than Mantua's MEC offering there is no doubt the green plastic shell, the car doors and door slides are pure Mantua. Like the UP reported on previously, the Penn MEC appears to be a marriage of Mantua shell and details to Penn Line's chassis and decoration. Any other examples come to mind?
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