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Well this years York for me was "heavy" with late 60s Red Box purchases. ..unfortunately even at York the "early stuff" is really starting to dry up.
First off I bought from a vendor 17 late 60s mint red box freight .
Not Tyco but a very nice little engine from Life Like
Mint and only $20 bucks.
Next a T6804A The Inter-City
missing a couple of window cellos from the component boxes
but still a nice set for $55 dollars
Finally 2 Golden West sets both mint never ran
these must be uncatalogued because I cant find
any info on the set numbers
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Posted - October 17 2009 : 3:08:54 PM
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Nicely done! I have got to go to York sometime!
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Posted - October 17 2009 : 4:33:03 PM
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$20 for a mint, boxed steam engine. Geez...around here the lowest you see for an unboxed steam engine MIGHT be under $50, if you're lucky Great finds though! The Tyco sets are sweet. There's never anything like that around where I live 
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Posted - October 17 2009 : 4:37:30 PM
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| Nice haul Tayco, I went to the York show several years back. I hope to coordinate another trip home and work that show into the trip.
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Posted - October 17 2009 : 5:31:23 PM
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Hi Taycotrains,
I saw the B&O set on Friday at York but didnt see any of the rest you got, matter of fact for me this was the worse York show I ever attended due to the weather & hardly any HO trains at all, I saw one table with red box tyco on Friday morning but it was party covered & I didnt want to dig around with no one there so am not sure what was there, I hope it was the weather that kept people away from the show & the Spring show is better, anyway, nice find & did you see the CP Passenger boxed set for $250.00 ?
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Posted - October 17 2009 : 5:35:02 PM
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Hey Cheez,
Its all about the "situation"...when you go to a show with 100s and 100s of vendors (maybe 1000s I don't know ? ) You are bound to find things like this if you look.
I was lucky because this particular vendor was selling primarily postwar Lionel and American Flyer.I spotted it hiding in the back of her table and showed a interest....she had it marked 25.00 dollars and when she saw I picked it up she came over and said she would take 20.00...( she had it sold at 25.00....but she offered and I jumped at it !)
On a HO dealers table that engine would have a asking price between 50 to 80 dollars...maybe more.
I have never seen a Life Like Steam Engine like that or any LL steam engine for that matter...but I am still relatively new at this HO thing
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Posted - October 17 2009 : 5:47:00 PM
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quote:Hi Taycotrains,
I saw the B&O set on Friday at York but didnt see any of the rest you got, matter of fact for me this was the worse York show I ever attended due to the weather & hardly any HO trains at all, I saw one table with red box tyco on Friday morning but it was party covered & I didnt want to dig around with no one there so am not sure what was there, I hope it was the weather that kept people away from the show & the Spring show is better, anyway, nice find & did you see the CP Passenger boxed set for $250.00 ?
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Abe my kid wanted me to buy that set....I would have offered him $200 but
when there is no inserts for the cars I do not really have any interest in a set.
Yes the show was "light" on good HO I was literally looking under rocks for stuff.
Dale Kilsbaugh from Florida (a guy I have bought a lot of stuff from over the years) had nothing ...his son said he is "all sold out of the stuff"
Pat Neil from Dallas brought a bunch of G gauge stuff up in favor of his usual large selection of Tyco sets and confided in me that he made a mistake in doing that and that the sets will be there in the spring.
and your right the weather sucked !!!
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Posted - October 18 2009 : 02:23:22 AM
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Nice finds.
I picked up a few things at a show in Phoenix today, Nothing like that though.
http://www.2guyzandsumtrains.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=80292.html#80292
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Posted - October 18 2009 : 10:57:03 AM
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  *is uber jealous* oh I knows you spent close to $1000 on those trains  I'd like to find a UP set like the Inter-City set  What? No billboard/ad cars?
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Posted - October 18 2009 : 2:03:42 PM
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Posted - October 18 2009 : 6:52:37 PM
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Now I'm drooling...
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Posted - October 18 2009 : 9:14:42 PM
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| I'd say you had a good day with those finds, they all look perfect.
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 Posted - October 18 2009 : 11:09:57 PM
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LMAO, tayco!
I feel ya, man.
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 Posted - October 18 2009 : 11:11:15 PM
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| LOL, I guess that is the equivalent of being "rick rolled" with each thread replied to. Good times.
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Posted - October 18 2009 : 11:47:35 PM
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i like that 60's era stuff, it looks real nice. the life like engine looks sweet too. how long has life like been making trains? i thought the came out in the late 70's to early 80's.
great finds
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Posted - October 26 2009 : 12:05:07 AM
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Bob,
I laughed so hard I feel out of my wheelchair... again! Well done!
Now 'bout your amazing stash from York... I don't know much about the late 1960's Tyco offerings but I do recall that when they offered the Golden West Set it marked the end of a decade of Disney Land and Petticoat Junction sets. I beleive the set on the left is a number 6927 from 1969. Cost with power pac was $38.00...They also offered the same set without the pac as number 6907 for $31.00.
I don't recall the other set with the 3 addtional freight cars and if it had been around I would have noticed it... At the time I was working for a real railroad and we ran mixed freights with a steam ten wheeler a couple of times a week! Perhaps the original owner bought a Golden West set plus the extra cars... whatever occured it's apparent that no one ever played with
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Posted - October 26 2009 : 10:21:27 AM
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hey LoopnHook try this link It has ALL the Tyco Red Box sets
http://www.ho-scaletrains.net/tycotrainsredboxtrainsets/
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Posted - January 12 2021 : 1:05:17 PM
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quote:
Certainly picked up some nice sets and individual items.
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Posted - January 12 2021 : 11:11:44 PM
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| Very interesting overview of Tyco.
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