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I concede your point Fritschsr, but for me Tyco provided a great motivation to obtain a much better product in Athearn, Mantua and AHM/Riverossi of the day. Of all the trainsets I have gone thru my life like pittman F7 died back in the late 80's from sheer wear and my Athearn Cow and Calf which dates to the late 80's as well also run today. I once had a plan to upgrade my Athearn Cow and Calf to DCC/Sound but BLI came out with a switcher already included these features. These switchers had a problem running backwards on DC and derailing front truck but nothing too serious. I had a old Tyco 0-8-0 that was driven with a motor in the tender of all places. There was no weight to hold the steamer down on the rails and it constantly derailed. The engine was fated to be broken up and tossed onto the parts box under the workbench. I was given a Chattanooga Desiel by the parents shortly after as a trainset from Tyco The front truck cannot adhere to the rails due to minimal weight on the engine and too much torque. That engine was also broken up and thrown away. That was 30 years ago. Whenever I see a tyco engine on Ebay I still get angry at how crappy they were back in the day. It is the one thing that motivated me to seek QUALITY motive power and take care of it. I run a BLI M1a very hard hauling trains and with proper servicing and care in keeping everything safe it will be around 30 years from now. (Maybe I wont be but that is in God's hands) I am sorry for some of the hard things I said about Tyco. When I had these as a child of 10, they really made an impression on really bad products. And I cannot help but say how glad I am not to see those anymore.
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