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Thanks to a tip from across the pond, I snagged some great classic Plymouth switchers, BIN mint in the box. Even with the exchange rate and shipping it was less than trying to get even three or two of them in this condition anywhere else!
But I don't think I've ever seen the packaging they were in - not even in photos. It's great. Very clean and elegant IMHO. But the part I loved the best was the phrasing used on the top:
Perfect for all those off-rail adventures!
Here's the rest of the lot:
The Bell Telephone one is actually "hidden in plain sight" on a box for a very common Tyco accessory...
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 2:27:38 PM
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Damnit! Mine is only 2 wheel drive haha. Did AHM have a copy of this? I have the GE one I just picked up last week...and promply blew the motor after 10 mins of running 
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 2:32:01 PM
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Let's hear it for the electronics industry, old school! So did they have an electronics industry series, an auto industry series, etc.? I had no idea they ever made one in a Bell System scheme. Boy, does that foursome bring back memories. Makes me want to break out my oscilloscope and tube tester. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, like a vacuum tube filament. 
Btw, I see holes for handrails, but are they included? I assume the 4WD banner was to differentiate them from their competition with only one driven axle, like the AHM units.
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 2:55:05 PM
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Love the 4 wheel drive notation. that was funny to see right out of the box. And who'd think that getting stuff across the pond would take less time than from CA!
Nickel Plate - saw some vacuum tubes in use this weekend. The sound was "better than live" with them. SWEEET!
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 3:05:21 PM
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The handrails are alll sealed and included with the warranty card, tucked in a pocket cleverly created by the folds of the insert.
It's the only thing I dislike about these: I love how they look with handrails, and would install them yesterday, BUT they can't fit back in the box when you do that. I call this "Roundhouse Disease" as I hated how as soon as you put the couplers on a Roundhouse car, its box becomes useless, naught for a lousy 1/3". Of course I have since discovered Tyco/Mantua and some Athearns, etc were guilty of this as well.
Anyway. Memories? Let's see...
As a kid I remember my mom having to drive to the local (Illinois) Bell Telephone office in Chicago to pay the bill and exchange phones. I remember she was not happy after AT&T was created and took over...
Our Avocado Green gas clothes dryer was built by Westinghouse before my time, and outlived three washing machines. It currently survives in a barn loft at my in-laws'. When my dad replaced the washer for the 4th time, it came with a matching dryer. So I brought that beast of a dryer here in case we moved somewhere that used gas. Which we haven't. Just as well, since my in-laws scavenged it first for a drive belt  . In the meantime, our current (electric) dryer came secondhand from them, free, since it was broken tossed in another barn until I replaced a drive belt, element, and sensor. It's since been threatening to outlive the washer we bought new at the time. Who made it? General Electric. Funny how that works, ha!
Who hasn't owned something built by RCA over the years? For me it's been a walkman, TV, stereo, and random secondhand stuff. The neighbors across the street have a vintage RCA Tube Warehouse gathering dust in their basement... next time I find a tube radio they're getting a call from me. It's a shame RCA is a mere shadow company of their former selves though. Just a token brand name for foreigners to slap on crap to sell back to us, gone the way of Zenith, Admiral, Goldstar, Emerson, Westinghouse, Polaroid, et al and counting... 
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 4:21:30 PM
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| so for the big question,what year would you say they are ken
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 5:11:29 PM
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 gotta find these someday & Bell System is extinct
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 6:29:45 PM
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quote:
Who hasn't owned something built by RCA over the years?
Originally posted by GoingInCirclez-November 18 2009: 3:05:21 PM
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Tell any of the young 'uns out there to adjust their vertical hold, and they'll just look at you cross-eyed. 
I was bequeathed an old Hammarlund shortwave receiver by a Ham friend who is now deceased, and after fixing it up it will handily keep the house warm in the winter months, and the top doubles nicely as a griddle for frying up breakfast. Can't stop it with a gun, but oyyy, the electric bills...
Another legendary name that now exists only as a tampo print is Grundig. The Eton Corporation owns the name now, and produces some excellent shortwave receivers that are plagued with frustrating QC issues. Ah, progress.
Btw, what's with the fan in the middle of the cab roof? Blow drier for the crew? Cooling for the vacuum tubes?
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 Posted - November 18 2009 : 7:06:02 PM
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That vent is for the toilet. Duhhhhhhhhhhh...  
I have an old Philips reel-to-reel player that uses tubes. Vacuum tubes seem to give it a life of it's own, plus they get nice and warm if you feel like burning your fingertips!
Vertical hold? Never heard of it. Magic eye tubes? Gimme gimme gimme!
Oh, nice engines GIC.
    
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 7:07:00 PM
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Tell any of the young 'uns out there to adjust their vertical hold, and they'll just look at you cross-eyed. Originally posted by NickelPlate759-November 18 2009: 6:29:45 PM
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Sadly, I understand that.
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 7:14:30 PM
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quote:| Who hasn't owned something built by RCA over the years? |
oh how about these?
or how about this?
I use it to keep my records in I do own a RCA DVD Player a really old 8-track player
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 7:14:45 PM
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RCA: "His Master's Voice" remember????
RCA Black and White TV, "...get up and change the channel yourself!"
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 7:20:15 PM
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Wait, a minute, if you don't adjust the vertical hold properly, the picture on your TV flies past vertically repeatedly with a black bar in the middle?
I know what I'm talking about, but can't explain it in fancy grown-up words.
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Posted - November 18 2009 : 10:20:41 PM
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| That takes me beyond envy into the netherworld of avarice...great score.
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Posted - November 21 2009 : 07:20:41 AM
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Vertical hold? Never heard of it. Magic eye tubes? Gimme gimme gimme!
Originally posted by MM 1498-November 18 2009: 7:06:02 PM
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Matt, that amp is a thing of beauty. I have an old Grundig shortwave receiver with a tuning eye, but the tuning cord broke, and now the lights are on, and no one's home. Probably needs to be re-tubed & re-capped.
Btw, there was a horizontal hold too.
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Posted - March 05 2010 : 7:45:04 PM
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what's a good price for these beasts?
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Posted - November 27 2020 : 11:00:03 AM
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Not easy to find those units.
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Posted - November 28 2020 : 12:31:33 AM
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| Another Tyco variation I’d never known.
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Posted - November 28 2020 : 09:19:35 AM
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| I love that classic packaging
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Posted - November 28 2020 : 11:23:41 AM
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update: I traded one of those RCA tube signs for trains
Sold the RCA Videodisc display to a guy from Minnesota!
He drove here & got it!
most records sold off too!
Still have one of the signs & the banners
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