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Great pics guys, makes me want to find all the old timers I can! Along with older freight cars and wild west buildings. Mike
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Posted - October 06 2012 : 10:50:37 PM
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[quote]I seen a 4-6-0 for $130 at train show  Also I saw a TycoKit for a 4-4-0 was $45 All I got was this broken one
Yeah, but I'm sure you could customize it with a custom cab. I have no modeling skill, but I think I'd try just making a cab. I've seen hundreds of these locomotives in my hunts, and I find them to be "dime a dozen" in terms of uniqueness. Make this one unique; make a backstory to explain a custom cab!
In the meantime, ya'll want me to look for any of these in my travels?
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Posted - October 06 2012 : 11:09:07 PM
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quote:| In the meantime, ya'll want me to look for any of these in my travels? |
YES!! I want the Hooterville Cannonball version IF it cheap enuff 
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Posted - October 07 2012 : 8:14:36 PM
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The Denver Rio Grand box car
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Posted - October 08 2012 : 09:50:52 AM
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Delaware Lackawanna and Western boxcar
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Posted - October 08 2012 : 1:18:36 PM
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quote:
Did you ever get that cab? I found one on Ebay here while I was looking for something else:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-SCALE-MANTUA-TYCO-4-6-0-RODGERS-CAB-/221135322877?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item337cb13efd
It should at least be the right color, right?
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Posted - October 18 2012 : 10:57:14 AM
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CNJ box car #769
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Posted - October 18 2012 : 11:14:38 AM
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oooo I wants the D&RGW one
No I didn't Islanderh93 Loco still in pieces
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Posted - October 19 2012 : 12:08:44 PM
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I think that is the only DRGW old time box I got.
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Posted - October 19 2012 : 1:15:38 PM
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Time I share a few:
The Mastadon:
W&A 4-6-0:
ATSF 4-6-0(Wants the ES Marsh Next!!)
Mantua Coach:
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Posted - October 19 2012 : 5:59:23 PM
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A good group of 19th century locomotives. GO tyco.
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Posted - October 20 2012 : 5:03:32 PM
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Gotta show off my 2 new 36' ATSF coaches soon.
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Posted - October 20 2012 : 9:34:05 PM
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Do you have the combine also.
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Posted - October 20 2012 : 9:34:34 PM
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No sir. I wish.
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Posted - November 06 2012 : 4:19:51 PM
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It is that time of year when so many passenger trains from all over the country come to Bergen Point. They come in there old time trains. There locomotives fill the Frankford roundhouse. The Passenger cars the yards.
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Posted - November 06 2012 : 4:52:36 PM
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A Panorama view
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Posted - November 06 2012 : 5:51:12 PM
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*jealous*  Also I do want that Hooterville Cannonball loco someday
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Posted - November 06 2012 : 7:30:41 PM
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A fifth photo
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Posted - November 14 2012 : 09:43:17 AM
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Exit , entry, service, and stroage tracks. I do know that all the engine seen in these photos are not Tyco old timers, but of the 50 engines on this layout right now, 34 are Tyco-Mantua, of the 34, 32 are old timers.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 07:49:50 AM
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Show casing today, Tycos' 1860 raidial roof passenger cars. These are Pennsylvania Railroad cars.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 07:48:00 AM
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*** Time to start posting Tyco old time freight cars. These are all factory painted cars by Tyco-Mantua. Not all. Others were done.
box car Central Pacific Railroad.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 07:49:57 AM
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Box car Denver Rio-Grand Western.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 07:50:57 AM
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Box car, Milwaukee Road.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 07:52:34 AM
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Box car Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 07:53:47 AM
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Box car western and Atlantic Railroad.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 07:55:20 AM
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Gondola , Central Pacific RR.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 07:56:27 AM
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Gondola with log load, Denver and Rio-Grand Western RR.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 07:59:15 AM
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gondola, Western and Atlantic RR. with cable load.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 08:00:57 AM
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Gondola, Western and Atlantic RR, with cable load , green.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 08:02:38 AM
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Horse car, Central Pacific RR.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 08:03:47 AM
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Horse car, Denver Rio-Grand Western RR.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 08:04:57 AM
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Horse car, Pennsylvania RR.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 08:05:54 AM
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Horse Car, Western and Atlantic RR.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 08:07:14 AM
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Water car, Denver and Rio-Grand Western RR.
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Posted - May 17 2013 : 08:08:09 AM
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Water Car Pennsylvania RR.
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Posted - May 19 2013 : 12:57:44 AM
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Are all of the above real Tyco cars (red or brown box era?), or perhaps Mantua too? I never knew there were so many road nmaes offered. I can only think of brown box W&A cars, and the r/w/b Sof76 set.
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Posted - May 19 2013 : 08:00:14 AM
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Sam Hi. I think of Mantua and Tyco as the same company. All the cars I have posted, and there are others, were made by them. Most cars and locos made only said Mantua on the bottom. On others you could find both the Mantua and Tyco name there. This post is just about the old timers 1860 and 1880 style of cars and locos. When you go to HOseeker, or Tony Cooks sites, and look through the catalogs there, you find many road names. I hope you enjoy the photos.
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Posted - May 19 2013 : 11:21:05 AM
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Frank,
Did you add these reels as a load, or did the car come that way? It's a really interesting idea. I just wonder if it looks like Tyco/Mantua modified the mold for the reels, or did they mold them as normal and cut them to fit?
I was at an EMD open house in around 1985 and got to see the EMD HO club layout on a tour. The only thing I clearly remember is there was a large diesel shop area (go figure), and there was an old timer Tyco gondola like this with an Athearn dummy GP truck as a load. After that my OEM Tyco water tanks or whatever that round load was would be lost forever and the dummy GP truck took its place.
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quote:gondola, Western and Atlantic RR. with cable load.
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Posted - May 19 2013 : 12:48:49 PM
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I think they were a part of a longer load for a 60 foot tyco flat car.
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 Posted - May 19 2013 : 1:01:00 PM
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real cool I wants the Rio Grande cars & I gotta find some in V&T
With abit of modification I'll bet you could make the RG cars into HOn3
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Posted - May 19 2013 : 1:24:27 PM
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| ben first look right at the load and then look left the answer is in the picture ken
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Posted - May 19 2013 : 5:45:10 PM
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| it was just a idea hehe
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Posted - May 24 2013 : 6:58:16 PM
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Is the D in SF&D for Disney? Is that what makes these "Disney" cars? Didn't Tyco also have regular Santa Fe cars, or maybe I'm only thinking of these?
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Posted - May 24 2013 : 7:34:35 PM
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quote:Is the D in SF&D for Disney? Is that what makes these "Disney" cars? Didn't Tyco also have regular Santa Fe cars, or maybe I'm only thinking of these?
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Actually SF&D was for Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad
Which was from 1953 to 1974
So now its just called The Disneyland Railroad
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Posted - May 28 2013 : 12:22:27 PM
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Two other 1860 freight cars. Disney cars.
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Posted - June 09 2013 : 12:10:55 AM
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I don't like to remove things from boxes much, but here's one from the red box era. T318E:396 BPS&D "platform car" with figures.
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Posted - June 09 2013 : 12:13:34 AM
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I haven't seen these yet either. Maybe they're not "true" old timers either, since there Sof76 cars. I thought there were three of them, but maybe the coach is just a double in the set.
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Posted - June 09 2013 : 12:20:37 AM
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Santa Fe 4-6-0.
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Posted - June 10 2013 : 10:03:13 AM
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quote:I don't like to remove things from boxes much, but here's one from the red box era. T318E:396 BPS&D "platform car" with figures.
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* Nice picture of the Disney Land set's old time gondola with load and original figures. Looks like it never got played with.
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Posted - June 10 2013 : 12:03:32 PM
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Michelob passenger car
This goes to a set but it was $6 at a train show
So I'm looking for the rest
Also after watching Walt Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase I want the General & Texas now hehe
I'd of posted my V&T General but I did already on page 2
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