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Quit slamming the TYCO!
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In regards to the original post of whether to put DCC in a Tyco I offer the following from the Loys Toys website: <br /> <br />A good loco will have: <br /> <br />First and FOREMOST, all-wheel power pickup. <br />Quality pickup transfer <br />A quality can motor, usually 5-pole skew-wound <br />Flywheel(s) on the motor shaft <br />All-wheel drive <br />Weight <br /> <br />A Tyco does not meet any of these characteristics and later on in the website he says he has never seen a good running Tyco. <br /> <br />I still have a few Tyco's I have never gotten rid of, at one time I was going to make a well detailed GP-20 and C-630 out of these shells, but other makers have come up with a better model right out of the box. <br /> <br />I wish every LHS could steer the customer to Athearn, Atlas, P2K etc. But Tyco is a name many people remember from their childhood so they want to have them even though they are not the quality of the models offered in the 1970's. <br /> <br />Tyco had its place just as Varney did and we need to remember the good they did for the hobby way back when and I apoligize for slamming Tyco the way I did, but they are not the quality we need to keep the newcomers into Model Railroading. <br /> <br />Rick
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