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 Posted - November 15 2009 : 8:01:07 PM
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The first Tyco flats in 1953 were nothing more than factory assembled Mantua Kit 308 cars. They were all diecast and painted black through 1954. In 1955 they were finally painted with road names.
1955 - 308 Tyco RTR 40 ft diecast flat car with road names
308A - Pennsylvania (red)
308B - U.S. Navy (grey)
308C - Santa Fe (black)
The stock number for flat cars changes in 1956
1956 - 314 Tyco RTR 40 ft flat car with plastic decks on metal frames with truck mounted NMRA couplers
314A - Pennsylvania (red) Dont care what the catalogs say! It will always be Tuscan!
314B - U.S. Navy (grey)
314C - Santa Fe (black)
The next car in the series appears in 1959 and is
314D - New York Central MOW (yellow) looks like orange to me!
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Posted - November 15 2009 : 8:17:46 PM
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The T-308 Diecast Flatcar also came unpainted and also came Blacken not painted.
Here is a PRR Girder Flatcar Painted Version. The color is more like Boxcar Red than Tuscan.
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Edited by - VintageHO on November 15 2009 8:28:56 PM
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Posted - November 15 2009 : 8:33:12 PM
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| Thanks for more great info. Like I said in another thread, until I found this site I thought Tyco was just an '80s toy company.
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Posted - November 23 2009 : 10:14:02 PM
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| Which leads me to another question: Is 1956 ('56-'57 season?) when Tyco converted from Mantua couplers to X2f's?
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Posted - November 24 2009 : 2:53:45 PM
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DT,
You are absolutely correct! 1956 was the year that John Tyler finally consented to the use of NMRA couplers after a long battle with his son and staff to retain his beloved loop n hooks.
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Posted - November 24 2009 : 3:42:01 PM
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| I have an introductory Streamline caboose from 1956, that actually uses plastic (er, nylon) loop-and-hooks. A very interesting transition item to say the least. Bad thing is one of them warped and sagged, and thus will not work as intended, though they are flexible enough to manually couple. But since it's a caboose, you only need one end to operate most of the time anyway.
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