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So, one of my favorite TYCO sets has to be the Night Haulers set.
Anyway, I've been working on my own project. It is based upon Greensboro, NC where I grew up.
I've built custom trailers and painted my trucks in the liveries of Sears, Cone Mills, and Central Concrete- all from the era of 1978-1992. I've also modified some action stations so they look similar to the industries the trucks hail from. Thought it would be fun to create something to entertain my toddler with.
I'm able to run three trucks- two semis and a cement mixer. TYCO never released a set with two semi trucks on the same lane, so I thought this would be neat. Additionally, the action stations concentrated on the dump truck, gravel trailer, or auto rack. The action was never more than hooking and unhooking trailers for the TL and LTL trucks. Having two semi trucks and stations on the same lane adds some fun.
Cone Mills-
Sears Catalog Warehouse-
Central Concrete-
Custom truck stop-
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Posted - March 14 2009 : 8:40:11 PM
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 koool needs the US-1 Road & Rail track love that Sears truck *wants one* 
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Posted - March 14 2009 : 9:34:31 PM
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| Someone should convert those to DCC!
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Posted - March 14 2009 : 11:24:01 PM
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| Johnny--Very cool and creative--i am in Mt.Holly NC and remember seeing Cone Mills trucks at A&E mills plants as well as ParkDale and Stowe Mills in Gaston County. The Sears truck is cool as is the cement plant. i drive a concrete truck and your cement plant resembles ours. Welcome to the forum also!!
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Posted - March 15 2009 : 01:14:03 AM
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quote:Johnny--Very cool and creative--i am in Mt.Holly NC and remember seeing Cone Mills trucks at A&E mills plants as well as ParkDale and Stowe Mills in Gaston County. The Sears truck is cool as is the cement plant. i drive a concrete truck and your cement plant resembles ours. Welcome to the forum also!!
Originally posted by Brianstyco-March 14 2009: 11:24:01 PM
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Thanks Brian! I saw a lot of the Cone trucks as a kid too. Glad to hear you like the cement truck. The most observant folks when it comes to miniatures are always the ones who deal with the real thing from day to day. The cement truck is made from an HO cement truck (mixer) and then a heavily modified dump truck frame (a la Dremel and model cement).
All of my trailers are shortened Athearn trailers with US1 trailer running gear. They look better, are better proportioned, and offer more realism.
I've been toying with purchasing a piggyback loader like the one that came in the Silver Streak set and then significantly mod it. My future goal is to take my US1 trucks and stations and move them onto a 4x8 layout with a train. I already have a NS Geep that I will use to be prototype correct to the railroad that served my industries.
Anyway, I have a few more custom trucks. These are more for fun than anything else.
Brian, seeing as you are from NC, you'll like this one. It is a Cheerwine beverage truck-
This one is pure fun. Unfortunately, it displays better than it navigate the track. The trailer is slightly too long to get around the curves without hitting the truck in the other lane. It is a custom DPMS truck & trailer, in homage to the "Black Cat Express"-
Custom single axle aggregate dump truck-
UPS truck & trailer-
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Posted - March 15 2009 : 02:09:34 AM
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| The Cheerwine truck is cool. I notice you mention NC related to that truck. We go to Pigeon Forge Tennessee two times a year, and my wife likes to go over the mountain to Cherokee, NC to Harrah's casino. I don't like gambling so I cruise a few miles over to Bryson City, NC... Where there is a neat old train sitting over there and near the railroad is a Cheerwine truck trailer sitting there. I notice the truck in our vacation pictures taken there by the railroad. Bryson City has some railroad festval type deal every September...
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Posted - March 15 2009 : 11:42:28 AM
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| Too sweet...filled with envy...must...fight off...covetousness....aaaaaaaacccckkkkk!!!!!
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Posted - March 15 2009 : 8:51:02 PM
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Johnny--cool Cheerwine truck. Cheerwine/Sundrop = Gastonia home grown soda.
Walt-- Bryson City NC-- My dad is from there and i have many realtives in that area. The railroad is Great Smokey Mtns which is a tourist line. The model train store is right next to the depot. The train saved that town. Yes-you are correct-every Sept--they have Railorader days--huge crowds and they usually bring in locomotives from the transportation museum to run for the weekend
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Posted - March 15 2009 : 10:17:52 PM
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Hey Brian, I love that little place. I don't know what it is. Here is a vacation pic I took of the old Cheerwine truck. I had remembered a trailer but it was this truck. Note a train car of the one you mentioned in the background. Coming from Cherokee, there is a bridge on a curve that has old cars packed in the river bank. And cars elsewhere along the banks too.. We have been in the RailRoad shop too... As for Railroad days in Bryson, we miss it by only weeks. We go the second weekend in September to the Pigeon Forge,, "Shades Of The Past" car show...
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Posted - March 16 2009 : 4:31:17 PM
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quote:Hey Brian, I love that little place. I don't know what it is. Here is a vacation pic I took of the old Cheerwine truck. I had remembered a trailer but it was this truck. Note a train car of the one you mentioned in the background. Coming from Cherokee, there is a bridge on a curve that has old cars packed in the river bank. And cars elsewhere along the banks too.. We have been in the RailRoad shop too... As for Railroad days in Bryson, we miss it by only weeks. We go the second weekend in September to the Pigeon Forge,, "Shades Of The Past" car show...
Originally posted by walt-March 15 2009: 10:17:52 PM
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walt--there is a SunDrop/RC Cola/cheerwine distributor by the depot and hooby shop-know excatly where this is.
Edited by - Brianstyco on March 16 2009 4:31:42 PM
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Posted - March 17 2009 : 10:39:39 PM
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Hey Brian, I am familiar with the RC/Cheerwine distributor building right there... If it stayed warm in Bryson year round , I would move to there!! 
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 Posted - March 18 2009 : 7:14:55 PM
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OK, if I can ask... just how does this work? I saw some miscellaneous pieces at the Allentown show. Can you run regular Tyco slot cars on it? I have a NASCAR semi racer that Tyco made, would that work with this type of track?
Thanks for any info.
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Posted - March 18 2009 : 10:17:49 PM
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| Yes, you can run the NASCAR trucks on US1 track. However, IIHRC, some of the NASCAR trailers don't have slot pins on the trailer axles.
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Posted - March 18 2009 : 10:34:51 PM
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quote:Yes, you can run the NASCAR trucks on US1 track. However, IIHRC, some of the NASCAR trailers don't have slot pins on the trailer axles.
Originally posted by JohnnyKane-March 18 2009: 10:17:49 PM
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Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like the "switches" (for lack of a better word) don't work from a remote, but somehow the vehicle itself is directed to turn onto another road. How is that done, and doesn't the vehicle need something special to allow it to turn? If not, couldn't you just use some Tyco racing cars on that roadway as well as the trucks? I guess how vehicles switch roads is the unknown part for me.
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Posted - March 19 2009 : 11:42:52 AM
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| the switches are a one way clip in the center of track where the slot pins go & it only works when reversing the trucks
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Posted - March 19 2009 : 6:19:57 PM
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| Thanks - I thought it might be something like that.
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Posted - March 19 2009 : 6:53:11 PM
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| now do a 7up truck for the 7up Tyco kit
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 Posted - March 19 2009 : 10:07:20 PM
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quote:now do a 7up truck for the 7up Tyco kit
Originally posted by microbusss-March 19 2009: 6:53:11 PM
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Hmmm.... that is an idea.
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Posted - March 20 2009 : 01:23:03 AM
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| Johnny--you should do a youtube video with the soundtrack from a Us-1 commercial or the Convoy song
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Posted - March 20 2009 : 08:20:50 AM
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quote:Johnny--you should do a youtube video with the soundtrack from a Us-1 commercial or the Convoy song
Originally posted by Brianstyco-March 20 2009: 01:23:03 AM
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"East Bound and Down" from Smokey and The Bandit...
Sorry, there's many a good truckin' song out there!
    
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Posted - March 24 2009 : 5:22:34 PM
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| Convoy by C,W. McCall on the Convoy soundtrack better that one has swear words
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 Posted - March 28 2009 : 10:47:58 PM
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quote:Johnny--you should do a youtube video with the soundtrack from a Us-1 commercial or the Convoy song
Originally posted by Brianstyco-March 20 2009: 01:23:03 AM
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Hmmmm.... I like that!
FWIW- I did think about painting a COE Freightliner body and trailer in red and white for a BJ & the Bear homage.
Edited by - JohnnyKane on March 28 2009 10:48:49 PM
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Posted - March 29 2009 : 10:49:20 AM
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| if you do a 7up truck make sure its in the right paint scheme in according to the era 7up building was made
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Posted - March 31 2009 : 11:36:07 AM
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DUDE! found these on eBay!
no I didn't get them but will look for them 
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