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 Posted - November 21 2006 : 12:22:08 PM
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Ran across this on eBay today...
Had anyone else seen or own a TYCO AutoLoader in a small regular Brown Box and not the double-wide box that housed the Auto-Loader one side and the set of six autos on the other?
Notice it is described as Autoloader Flat Car and carries stock number #349-1, the AutoLoader is #349. Did TYCO sell the AutoLoader empty with no vehicles?
BTW, notice the auction includes a 50th Anniversary TYCO Box Car.
eBay Item #120055282763
Ends 11/26/06
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 Posted - November 21 2006 : 12:52:45 PM
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I saw recently at the DFW train show buit didnt buy it because the car was alittle beat up and the box didnt have an insert. The box lid was labeled correctly for the autoloader. This was about the second one ive seen like that so i guess they would be few and far between.
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Posted - December 14 2006 : 10:57:13 PM
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Hi Tony. The Tyco Autoloader #349 came with Autos in the same box. When Tyco put the autoloader in a set, It separated the autos #349-2 from The Flatcar 349-1. They did this so they could fit them better in the set box. The 349 box was an odd size so it did not fit right in the set boxes. So if you find a 349-1 auto loader or 349-2 autos it probably came from a set. Carl
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Posted - December 15 2006 : 07:47:19 AM
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quote:Hi Tony. The Tyco Autoloader #349 came with Autos in the same box. When Tyco put the autoloader in a set, It separated the autos #349-2 from The Flatcar 349-1. They did this so they could fit them better in the set box. The 349 box was an odd size so it did not fit right in the set boxes. So if you find a 349-1 auto loader or 349-2 autos it probably came from a set. Carl
Originally posted by VintageHOÂ -Â December 14 2006Â :Â 9:57:13 PM
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Ahhh, that explains it. I just picked up a log dumping car this week and it was in its own small TYCO brown box and carried the "dash-1" suffix and it got me wondering about these offerings again. Makes sense, just kinda surprised that TYCO bothered to print the end flaps...guess they are likely early/mid 1970s items when TYCO still cared.
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Posted - August 29 2014 : 04:36:04 AM
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Just to update this topic with some pictures, since I was going through my inventory, and wanted to post my pictures anyway  , here's what the 3 different boxed sets look like.
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I'd been wondering why they had put them in two separate boxes, now I know why - sets. Makes sense.
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