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 Posted - December 04 2006 : 12:19:16 PM
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Yes, it certainly was!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc3RqtT7ETw
My little brother and I shared that set growing up. Was a very clever little design, and the trains were almost indestrcutible! Sadly, the tracks and couplers were not, and it's hard to find intact track sections today.
I only have a few of the trains left today, and have been trying to determine the complete catalog offerings. Among the more unusual examples is a BN AEM-7 electric. I have seen two GP38's (Chessie, Rio Grande). and two F40PH's (SantaFe, Amtrak). Two each of Boxcars (BN, Railbox), Flatcars (Conrail, SooLine), tankcars (Shell, ?), and an ore-dump car, as well as Amtrak Superliners. Plus a couplua caboose for Santa Fe and Rio Grande.
The cars are N-scale in length and height, TT in width, and ride on trucks that fit HO-scale track!
Very fun, interesting pieces if yoiu find them. They turn op on ebay regularly and don't go for too much money...
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Posted - December 04 2006 : 1:06:18 PM
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Awesome You-Tube Find! Those Hot Wheels Train Sets were very cool.
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Posted - December 04 2006 : 5:41:12 PM
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| Could anyone post a picture of the train? Fromj what I can tell from the commercial, it looks almost like a train my neighbour has.
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Posted - December 05 2006 : 6:55:09 PM
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Man I still have mine from when I was a kid! That thing was the bomb back in the day! Many , many hours were spent playing with that thing! The xmas after it came out they offered an " expander set " which came in a seperate case with a picture of a Chessie System GP38 covering the whole back side which was the highlight. Included in the expanded was a Chessie System GP-38 and enough track to make an oval. Several years after that I recived another HW trainset which was an AMTRAK . It came with a whole diffrent city and from what I remember you could connect the two sets...!
A lone amature built the ark! A large group of professionals built the titanic!
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Posted - December 09 2006 : 7:37:04 PM
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As requested by Da Cheez:
The scale of those is truly something to behold - I never realized just how FAT they are until I compared them to N-scale cars - but they're really quite interesting, fun little train toys. Well worth picking up if you stumble on them!
Oh yeah, a cool little feature: If you press the "turbo hatch" on the engine, the brakeman comes out of the cab! And if you press the smokestack on the caboose, you can meet the Conductor! [}:)]
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Posted - December 09 2006 : 7:39:57 PM
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Budman-
Is THIS familiar?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=006&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=160059451195&rd=1&rd=1
That's a nice collection in there. Sometimes these things go for much more than I expect.
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Posted - December 10 2006 : 08:51:22 AM
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quote:
Awesome set...I want it just for the cool Chessie System case...
/tyco/forum/uploaded/Tony Cook/ddff_12.JPG
[}:)]
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Posted - March 20 2009 : 6:52:15 PM
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train may have been small but trains can fit on HO scale track  I might have a car or 2 IDK Hey! found the HW tanker that goes with the HW trains
I might have more than one of these 
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Posted - March 20 2009 : 10:36:05 PM
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| Tony Cook mentioned the cool Chessie System case. I had a friend in school who's family was wealthy and he had a nice HO train layout. I always thought his Tyco 430 was soo cool in the CS colors.. I have a Chessie 630 in my collection now...
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Posted - March 21 2009 : 08:27:32 AM
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All I have is a SF engine...
...but I'm keeping my eyes peeled for more ! I've researched these for a while, which is what I do. I find a certain item, and find as much information on it as I can, like I did w/ the Tyco Turbos, which I eventually got, so why not this item? Oh, and I noticed the engineer thingy, it is so cool!!!
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Posted - March 21 2009 : 09:32:48 AM
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| don't forget to look for that Hot Wheels tanker truck too
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Posted - March 22 2009 : 10:30:22 AM
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| My God I'm so glad there is a post about these things on here! I had the main fold up set as a kid. But I also had another fairly large set, was sorta like a small freight yard. Everything was molded into it. I think in the middle was a shed to park the train in, there was a loop that ran around the outside, and two spots where you could connect the snap track up too it. No real info on the net about these sorta toys its a huge shame. Though I'm pretty sure somewhere I might have that tanker truck Microbusss posted!
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Posted - March 22 2009 : 11:12:02 AM
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I used to work retail back then. If Purgatory was a real place, it would be working the toy aisle at a Roses dept. store...
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Posted - March 22 2009 : 11:20:36 AM
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best i could find ken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0upS0AM6Y5I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDJ6rfq_5Vk&feature=related
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Posted - March 22 2009 : 1:20:20 PM
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Hey, GiC, I could have sworn, as impolite as it is, that they had a steam engine with I-Think-An-0-6-0, a tender, and some other train car, either freight or a caboose. I had seen it on eBay, but it went for WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY beyond my financial abilities (that's a lot of ways), and I think it went for AT LEAST $75, since it was mint-in-the-box, and maybe even in the three-figures? Maybe someone else knows more about this than I do, but for your archive, GiC, this steamer should DEFINITELY be included! Has there really been no one else who has seen/heard of this HWRR train?
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Posted - March 22 2009 : 1:50:37 PM
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I don't have many of the Hot Wheels RR items, just surviving handful of cars from my own childhood and a lucky garage sale find here or there.
Whenever I do get the random spark to look on Ebay, there isn't much listed OR it's going for more than I'm willing to spend.
I honestly have never seen any steam items for the classic HWRR line. The strangest items that come to mind are what I think is an AEM-7 Electric painted for BN, and some sort of logging cars. But now that doesn't mean there WASN'T a steam item. If it was rare enough to get that kind of $, who knows?
I DO know that Hot Wheels did have some sort of railroad-themed set maybe 10 years ago? It was a corny futuristic space-ship steam loco looking thing. Haven't researched that one at all.
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 Posted - March 22 2009 : 2:34:44 PM
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Yes, they had a cheapo-looking-to-me plastic set, which is on eBay all the time. I personally have no interest at all in it. There was also a Hot Line set by Mattel that rain on HW tracks, bit they are always expensive to get in even decent condition. If you are good at restoring, they would be a great thing to find. I believe they had a head motor car, an observation car/caboose, a passenger car, and at least three different freight cars. I personally think that it looks a lot cooler than, well, I don't know what to compare them to. But they sure are darn cool.
(Edit-Cheap set is Power Express, though it doesn't look like it originally sold cheap, and as always, correct me if I'm wrong...)
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Posted - March 22 2009 : 3:56:28 PM
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...oh, and as usual, after I posted, I realize I forgot something, that there is a CN F40PH diesel too? Canadians got there representation too!
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