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 Posted - February 20 2010 : 07:49:08 AM
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Did Tyco make a Durango bobber caboose?
They did make a Pennsy style in Durango caboose and a search light car with a bobber caboose body like the other search light cars. Both examples can be found at the Tyco Train Collectors Resource Site.
I was looking at some HO rolling stock a fella was selling and I saw a Durango bobber caboose. When I flipped it over the chassis was the same as a Lionel bobber, I've posted at the forum and has been confirmed, that has a tin bottom and says Rivarossi on the coupler boxes. I didn't buy it but when I got home I compared the Lionel bobber, with a Rock maintenance caboose on flat car , and found that they are the same dimensions but not 100% exact tooling.
Did Tyco make the Durango bobber or did the original owner, not this guy, switch the original Durango search light body, that came with the set, onto a Rivarossi frame?
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Edited by - Alco Fan on February 20 2010 5:00:29 PM
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Posted - February 20 2010 : 12:34:30 PM
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Sounds like the old switcheroo.
Tyco bobber body on the Rivarossi frame.
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Posted - February 21 2010 : 10:59:58 PM
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I think someone just swapped shells on you. I know the the tyco bobbers, maintanance cars and clearance cars have the same compartment shell on them. You can swap to your hearts content making all kinds of unique roadstock. I don't know about swapping frames between manufacturers although it wouldn't surprise me.
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Posted - February 22 2010 : 06:23:07 AM
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Thanks for the comments. I thought I was on to another variation. It matched perfectly, I should have looked more carefully. With you I've had 3 who say the same thing, Caboose Fraud.
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Posted - February 22 2010 : 06:30:59 AM
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Gotta watch those Cross-dressing Cabeese!
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Posted - February 22 2010 : 7:13:13 PM
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quote:Gotta watch those Cross-dressing Cabeese!
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Good one Gareth, He'll be here all week folks. 
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Posted - February 25 2010 : 1:04:33 PM
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I think it's probably correct that this Durango bobber is a "cobble job" but there is a PRR bobber with a metal frame that is labled Tyco Mantua on the Internett auction site. This one looks to be different than the PRR searchlight car caboose version but this also might be a common swap.
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