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Out of Tyco's #358 & #359 dozen, Covered/Center Flow Hoppers, and the #360 & #361 (11) long Reefer/Boxcars. Which one hopper & one box car is your favorite? Just one of each. AND WHY?
My favorite hopper is the Maxwell House. I had this one (of two) as a kid. Colorful & remains my favorite.
Box car I would say the SOS may be my fav, Its brilliant orange on the yellow really stands out.
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 8:20:04 PM
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 8:35:41 PM
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Neat topic idea... 
/tyco/forum/uploaded/GoingInCirclez/358-C_Domino.jpg
This one just looks right to me. Love the colors and the arrangement. This car has some prototype inspiration too, which helps placate my rivet-counting half.
(and yes, this is my famous "taped" example, to keep the peeling paint intact. I do have a perfect mint unpeeled one too, just never retook a pic. Actually, the car used in the picture currently has a yellow roof I swiped off an Old Dutch version.)
62' express reefers? Tough call. I like 3, but I think I'll settle on
/tyco/forum/uploaded/GoingInCirclez/361-H_62Box_Tropicana.jpg
Just a nice clean design... and look great as a unit train (I have 5).
Honorable mentions to:
/tyco/forum/uploaded/GoingInCirclez/361-F_62Box_Pepsi.jpg
Another excellent, clean design. Looks good next to the Tropicana cars too - maybe this was intentional, as Pepsico is the parent company of Tropicana?
/tyco/forum/uploaded/GoingInCirclez/361-C_62Box_SOS.jpg
This is a sentimental favorite, with a clue for those in the know. The reporting marks on this boxcar series often contain subtle connections and in-jokes. Is the Pepsi car a "PC" for "Penn Central" or "Pepsi Cola"? "PRR" for Pennsylvania or Popsicle RailRoad? Oranges (Tropicana) come from Florida... East Coast (FEC). And veggies at the store have to be "TA&Gged". Admittedly, I'm not sure what the connection for ATSF/StarKKist and UP/DelMonte would be. But in SOS's case, the answer was right behind the house where I grew up.
Why is the SOS car marked for Illinois Central?
Possibly, because the former Headquarters and factory for the entire company (before it was bought by Clorox) was and still survives on West 65th Street, Chicago, Illinois...
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 9:20:57 PM
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Just because I like the colour combination...
This is hard just picking one of each...
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 9:34:47 PM
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hey GIC seriously need to "hurt" you for the Pepsi car!  hey lets make this a bilboard/ad car form  is it just me or is Caffine misspelled on the Sanka car? someone post candy bar cars
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 9:41:57 PM
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Well, the only car I have that fits this category is a Planters Peanuts hopper, I love how the gold and blue mix. But I really like the Star Kist car as well, that's one I'd love to find.
    
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 10:14:10 PM
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well posted this before I noticed it isn't in the Life-Like section
is THIS the one your looking for MM 1498??
this car is the same length as the Green Giant one pictured here
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 10:17:14 PM
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I just recently got into the hobby, so I don't have many tyco cars to choose from. I really like the Sanka car that Mike has, though.
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 10:27:58 PM
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That's the one, microbusss. I like the green wave and fisherman logo, it's just neat looking if you ask me.
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Posted - May 21 2009 : 10:43:36 PM
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| now your jealous of me eh MM 1498?
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Posted - May 22 2009 : 07:22:31 AM
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Well, if there is one person who I am jealous of here, it's Shaygetz with his Big Boy, cab forward, and GG1 locos. I wouldn't mind having any of those!
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Posted - May 22 2009 : 10:35:20 AM
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The Star-Kist IS a nice looking car - if you find one where all the colors are registered properly. Too often I find them where the fisherman's face looks all butchered up, or has the earring in his cheekbone, or some other such effect. That was a complex design for Tyco: 4 different colors that had to be aligned perfectly = 4 different ways for things to get screwed up.
Oh and yes, there is a <s>Tyco</s> Typo on the Sanka car... I'd aluded to this in the GIC Guide, but it's arguably a bit more subtle than the Bachmann Gerber as most people don't have to spell "caffeine" every day.
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Posted - May 22 2009 : 11:39:37 AM
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Thank you guys for all of the replies here. It is a tuff call on this subject. So many of these rail cars are neat in their own way. I like them all.
One car that has not been mentioned is the Hunts Box Car. Some different colors but kind of laid out nice....
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Posted - May 22 2009 : 11:54:50 AM
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Just to make sure which one was my favorite I bought atleast 1 of each. I unboxed them for this fairly older photo..
I tried to post the pic along with the subject last night but I couldn't get it to load...
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Posted - May 22 2009 : 1:22:44 PM
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dunno who made this totally forgot 
anyone got a Fuji Film car?
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Posted - May 22 2009 : 1:37:24 PM
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2 more...
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Posted - May 22 2009 : 5:00:52 PM
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heres a odd one made by Bachmann
2 odd Tyco ones
both different from the Jell-O grain car & the super looooonnggg Green Giant boxcar Word of caution: Becareful useing those super long Tyco cars on a sharp radius
forgot I had this one I think I picked this one up in Denver at The Great Train Show on Feb 11th I has a Crosley one too but its beat up well I did find the car in a dumpster
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Posted - May 23 2009 : 02:32:51 AM
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A rake of Sanka hoppers behind a pair of Monon F3s is on my wishlist but still the venerable Ajax car remains my all time favourite closed hopper. Walt, I'm glad you raised the Hunts box car - I love it like a liquorice allsort and can't imagine why some folks are so scared of pink.
This topic has reminded me why I like Tyco. These billboard beauties should be reintroduced assuming licensing issues haven't killed them off forever. They'd be a smash with both the young and young at heart for sure!
Well, I'd like them anyway. I swear, I see one more nondescript mineral red or black Atlas/Athearn freight car I'll stick a 9V battery on my tongue until it drains.
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Posted - May 23 2009 : 3:41:01 PM
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Tykowolf, I don't fear pink... I have several nice pink shirts of different shades. I wear them proudly knowing the fact that I prefer weman %100!!
The Hunt's is a great looking car.
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Posted - May 23 2009 : 3:45:20 PM
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If you prefer, we call them salmon colour...
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Posted - May 23 2009 : 5:55:29 PM
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well here's 2 more from my billboard/ad car collection both Tycos
Dots is licenced by Tootsie Roll Industries
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Posted - May 23 2009 : 8:39:49 PM
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Oh DOTS, I know them. Always so colorful, yet always seem to be one of the last things left in a Halloween basket...
...But I love the car, though, real nice.
(Edit {P.S.- I noticed after I posted this, this is my 100th post. COOL!!!})
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Posted - May 23 2009 : 8:55:33 PM
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I just got this. It's Tyco.
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Posted - May 23 2009 : 9:02:58 PM
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have lots of these billboard/ad cars but here are my favs
there are Superman & Capt Marvel cars too Which I'd like to have but I'm NOT gonna pay $10-$20 for each!! Would like to do every single Batman movie logos onto HO boxcars
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Posted - May 24 2009 : 8:42:32 PM
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Oh, I just realized, if all those Shoprite train sets and the cars included in them count as "billboard trains", I'll post oix when/if I can...
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Posted - May 24 2009 : 9:45:46 PM
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Baby Ruth cars both Tyco the bottom one is a "sound" car it uses marbles to simulate steam sound
oh Nestle owns Baby Ruth candy bars now oh have a truckless one too would be willing to give it away
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Posted - May 25 2009 : 09:49:34 AM
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Hey microbuss- is your truckless car a sound car or not? Thanks.
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Posted - May 25 2009 : 10:13:59 AM
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| yes truckless Baby Ruth a sound car Why?
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Posted - May 25 2009 : 5:21:15 PM
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quote:yes truckless Baby Ruth a sound car Why?
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How Much to ship it to BC, Canada?
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 Posted - May 25 2009 : 7:12:42 PM
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I've seen one of those Baby Ruth sound cars before. Of course, I was not interested in Tyco at the time, so when the guy selling it did a demonstration, I was less than impressed.
I'd love to have one now of course!
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Posted - May 26 2009 : 10:48:37 AM
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will have to find BR sound car also I admit I did pay $10 fer the Wonder Woman car Was wondering aside the Cokes & Pepsi-Cola cars Were there any other soda pops made?
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Posted - May 27 2009 : 4:23:40 PM
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| Ben, There is the Hire's Rootbeer boxcar...
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Posted - May 27 2009 : 5:46:32 PM
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oh yeah!  forgot about that one need that one!
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Posted - May 28 2009 : 12:04:17 PM
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quote:quote:yes truckless Baby Ruth a sound car Why?
Originally posted by microbusss-May 25 2009: 10:13:59 AM |
How Much to ship it to BC, Canada?
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Sorry John, I got dibs Ben and I worked it out earlier through PM
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Posted - May 28 2009 : 4:21:23 PM
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| but IF I find one zebrarails will let you know IF I find the Purina Chow one am keeping that lol
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Posted - May 29 2009 : 8:41:56 PM
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Because this involves both cats and trains, I have to say I like this one quite a bit. Jerry
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Posted - May 29 2009 : 9:05:05 PM
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oooo I jealous! thats a neato car
ok this is same car 2 different sides by Bachmann
odd one?
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Posted - May 31 2009 : 12:56:47 PM
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| The Bachmann Purina Cat Chow is a neat looking piece. I pictured mine somewhere on the forum a while back. There is a Bachmann green Purina Dog Food car too, but it's not a cool as the cat chow box car...
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Posted - May 31 2009 : 5:24:05 PM
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Here's a small pic of the Bachmann Dog Chow box car.
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Posted - May 31 2009 : 8:03:47 PM
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| oh darn I got that one too shoulda posted it
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Posted - June 01 2009 : 10:34:41 PM
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oh never mind! here it is
the other car I got from a friend here I forgot who Anyway thanks for the car
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Posted - June 04 2009 : 08:15:30 AM
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| hey just thought of something Would a billboard/ad car be even LEGAL on the today's railroads??
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Posted - June 04 2009 : 08:53:58 AM
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| I've wondered that myself. I know at one point, they were made illegal, and thus disappeared. I don't know if that law continues to hold or not.
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Posted - June 04 2009 : 08:58:23 AM
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| Maybe there are some nuances...this is kind of a billboard--http://www.oli.org/news/press_release_detail.php?press_release_ID=153
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Posted - June 04 2009 : 8:42:28 PM
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| yeah it was made illegal in the 1920sI think Will hafta contact the NTSB about it
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Posted - June 21 2009 : 9:40:29 PM
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ok got 2 more billboard/ad cars from Jeremy thanks man!
both cars are by AHM
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Posted - June 23 2009 : 11:53:37 PM
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One of my faves is the Tyco Hires Root Beer reefer.
It took me a few years to find one in mint condition,I found one at the last Timonium scale show a few months ago.
The seller wouldn't budge on the 5 bucks he was asking for it.
I bought it anyway,what a beaut!
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Very nice photos of those cars.
Some nice cars.
As well as this one.
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Posted - July 23 2020 : 11:30:02 PM
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| Eleven years later, nice thread revival.
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Posted - July 24 2020 : 08:20:32 AM
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| Never realized how long busss has actually been here, wow
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Posted - July 28 2020 : 7:35:35 PM
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That is like a really tough question. At different times, one was more favorite by a
nose, but for the longest time I was mad for a Sanka hopper, partly because it
reminded me of that goofy Joe DiMaggio commercial where he counsels a
squabbling couple to "take it easy, have some Sanka" as if that was a panacea
for all the world's troubles.
Some day I'd like to build a wall display, and these would take front and center:
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