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What is YOUR Tyco or Tyco-Mantua Holy Grail item?

As far as Tyco-Mantua, Mine would be the set T6512B,The Southern Crescent with the Green Pacific 4-6-2 decorated for the Southern Railway with four car green stripe CHROME plated passenger consist. I've got a half dozen of the Southern 4-6-2's but none of the chrome Southern passenger cars. Those cars are truly hard to find! I'd love to find a complete boxed set!

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My ultimate Tyco Holy Grail Item would have to be Santa Fe RF-16A "Shark" #222-21, released in 1982. I do not have this Shark, nor have ever seen it on Ebay, so I am continuing my hunt to find it.


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2-3 red box UP passenger cars
7up plant
Burger King
2-3 Baskin-Robbins
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The Trolley Street Track

Battery operated Freight Depot (Yeah I got both)

I think I have a boxed Crescent

I DO HAVE a 1963 mixed daily set Pennsylvania
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The Southern streamliner set is one I'm still missing, chrome and otherwise. I think the only other streamliner roadname I don't have is Canadian Pacific.
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Original Box Southern Chrome Set just went for less $400 on ebay.



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With all the saved searches I have set up, that Southern chrome set never got flagged. I googled for it but didn't find it. I did find this site, https://picclick.com, which appears to provide better searching of eBay. Has anyone used this site?
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quote:
Original Box Southern Chrome Set just went for less $400 on ebay.



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Originally posted by waw47 - June 10 2018 :  2:46:20 PM



I didn't see that one. I'll eventually find one.
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Sanka Car


Originally posted by Chops124 on June 07 2018.

Guard cat protecting his Sanka.

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What is your Tyco or Tyco Mantua Holy Grail item?

As far as Tyco Mantua goes mine would be the set T6512B.
The Southern Crescent with the Green Pacific 4-6-2 decorated for the Southern Railway.
With four car green stripe chrome plated passenger consist.
I have a half dozen of the Southern 4-6-2's but none of the chrome Southern passenger cars.
Those cars are truly hard to find!
I would love to find a complete boxed set!



Originally posted by Ricky Tanner on June 07 2018.

Sometimes I see that set at a Greenberg show for a few hundred dollars.



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My holy grail would be a dual power truck version of the ALcos, with all wheel pickup, no traction tires, and body mounted couplers with a filled in pilot area. You wouldn't need traction tires if all wheels were driven. In other words, an upgraded TYco like Bachmann did with their GP40.

But i'd settle for a dead rail version that ran off a NiMH battery pack. It would power my track cleaning train, and eliminate the need to use a bright boy just to get the track clean enough to clean the track. This one wouldn't be hard to do as the kits to convert it are readily available. It would eliminate the need to pickup electricity from the rails, always one of Tyco's weak points.


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oh I can cross out 7up plant I got one
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The extremely rare AEC F7 that was supposedly made in the 60's....
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The Northern Pacific shark nose
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Mine is the Tyco Armour-Kahn's Mistake reefer.

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Being a Wisconsinite there's basically no passenger Tyco passenger cars around here, especially the phase 2 ones. I did manage to find a set of the single stripe cars (with a Midnight Special shark) for the amazing price of 18 dollars!! but my actual passenger car is starting to act up again.

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oh forgot to add
I want the USA Express loco
& a matching caboose


do have the one it originally came with
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Frank... What is the mistake on that refer....
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The mistake on the reefer is that it has Kahns and Armour on the same car

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well I found a Holy Grail by accident at the Nov 26th train show
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Funny story, I managed to sneak away with a whole 2 boxes full of track, trains and accessories for only 175 dollars!

Within that lot was a Southern Pacific shark in a.. Soo line C-430 box?
Most of it there was Bachmann, Life-Like and Tyco. (red-box, only 3 pieces of it was brown box)
There was one really goofy Marx set though, frame kinda broke on that though...
Also got some late Tyco out of it too, (got my favorite dumping car. Timberline Logging, I don't know why I like it so much)
Anyways, I still got a Southern Pacific shark out of it.
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Was that a listed issue or was that in a set ie Sears, KMart etc...???
I don't remember it as being a regular production item.....
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