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QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy QUOTE: TYCO, Trains You Can't Operate. (can't remember who posted that, but it was clever).
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
QUOTE: Originally posted by mainecentral229 QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy QUOTE: TYCO, Trains You Can't Operate. (can't remember who posted that, but it was clever). That is so true, it gives me goose bumps!!
The Mantua Tyco stuff was good in its time, and the diesels of that period ran just as good as the Athearn locos with geared drives and no flywheels. Back in 1974 I had a Cox SW1500 (same as Athearn's SW7) and a Tyco GP20, and both ran quite well. The Tyco single dome tank cars of the early to mid 1970s were quite nice (I had four of them) and their streamlined cupola caboose had metal end handrails. But that was the 'brown box' era Tyco stuff.
From what I understand, the later stuff (late 1970s-early 1980s) was junk. Production was moved over to Hong Kong and the locos had the new Power Torque drive, which some people say is no better than a pancake motor drive. A different Alco C-430 body shell was also used during the Power Torque era - the new C-430 had a flatter roof that made the loco more boxy looking. That ugly-looking C-430 shell later appeared under the Pemco/Aurora and Model Power brand names.