Here you go.
For $150, you can buy 75 Tyco cars.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huge-Train-Lot-75-cars-Graveyard-HO-Scale-Tyco-Parts-Wheels-Junk-Yard-Collection-/331059924453#ht_2676wt_1294
That's only two bucks per piece of junk, guys.
Have a good day !
Rich
Alton Junction
WOW! And there is FREE shipping too!
Even at $2 a car, that is too much for that entire grouping. Some of the cars as individuals might be much more desirable than others of course. For that same $150, I would search out the Athearn/MDC/Accurail cars/kits I really wanted.
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
look like nothing but junk to me, $10.00-$20.00 is what I would pay. Even at that I think it would be over paying.
woodman look like nothing but junk to me, $10.00-$20.00 is what I would pay. Even at that I think it would be over paying.
Yeah. Horn hooks and plastic wheels on Talgo trucks. I'll pass on this one, thanks.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I've have some Tyco cars that I rebuilt into good looking models. However those are the exception, not the rule. Many Tyco (as well as Bachmann, Life-Like and some others) cars still look like junk after being rebuilt.
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jeffrey-wimberly I've have some Tyco cars that I rebuilt into good looking models. However those are the exception, not the rule. Many Tyco (as well as Bachmann, Life-Like and some others) cars still look like junk after being rebuilt.
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Well stated, Jeff.
mobilman44 WOW! And there is FREE shipping too! Even at $2 a car, that is too much for that entire grouping. Some of the cars as individuals might be much more desirable than others of course. For that same $150, I would search out the Athearn/MDC/Accurail cars/kits I really wanted.
$68.25 shipping, does not seem free to me.
OOH OOH maybe there is something colectible in those 75 cars
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Way too expensive!!
CZ
On the other hand here is a Mantua/Tyco Gon where I removed the orginal underframe and substituted an Athearn 40' Boxcar underframe, installed wire grabs and painted and lettered the car with Oddballs decals!
Right now I am in the process of kitbashing the old AHM/Bothcmann Bread Box Coil Gon into a more realistic version of the P&LE/B&LE Coil Gon. Rick J
Right now I am in the process of kitbashing the old AHM/Bothcmann Bread Box Coil Gon into a more realistic version of the P&LE/B&LE Coil Gon.
Rick J
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I have some great childhood memories of Tyco trains in the early 1970's, but that's about it. We get a lot of old HO trains at the rail museum from local people cleaning out their basements and garages, so I always ask if they are ok with me giving them to families who visit and want to start a layout or just something to make a kids day. I personally weeded out about six totes of old trains given to me years ago from old B&O and Erie RR guys who had the stuff laying around. I have the good memories, no need to re-live those days though!
-Stan
tatans$68.25 shipping, does not seem free to me.
tatans............
There certainly is free shipping (economy). If you want it fast, you will pay thru the nose
MisterBeasley Yeah. Horn hooks and plastic wheels on Talgo trucks. I'll pass on this one, thanks.
Well, plastic wheels on most of them. Some don't even have trucks.
jeffrey-wimberly tatans$68.25 shipping, does not seem free to me.Where do you see that? I see Free Economy Shipping.
It is Free to the Lower 48 states.
It is $68.25 if shipped to Canada.
richhotrain It is Free to the Lower 48 states. It is $68.25 if shipped to Canada.
Hmm, Actually, I have one of the hopper cars on my layout. With body mount Kadee's, a shot of DullCote and a coal load it looks pretty good. There is a red MobilGas tank car that could be cool. I've picked up plenty of onsie-twosy stuff like that at train shows. Not sure if I am up for 75 of 'em for $150, but then my rolling stock roster is pretty much full. In fact it's overfull.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
G Paine OOH OOH maybe there is something colectible in those 75 cars
In my neighborhood, they collect on Mondays.
MisterBeasley G Paine OOH OOH maybe there is something colectible in those 75 cars In my neighborhood, they collect on Mondays.
They need to send the "collectors" to Timonium and a few other train shows. My goodness there was tons of Tyco and AHM junk trains for sale, more than you could shake a stick at. For some reason people just won't let it go and haul to year after year to the train shows by the truck load. I doubt anymore than a infinitesimal fraction actually sells at any given show.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Jim,Don't be to fast to call some of the AHM cars junk some look just as good as some older Athearn MDC and Accurail cars.
I'm to the point I would rather buy a $3.00 AHM car,body mount the couplers replace the trucks then buy the newer $40.00 RTR car.
To tell the truth I'm finish with buying high dollar RTR cars.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Think I need to give away my high end stuff and buy that Tyco.
Russell
I am not here to sing the praises of Tyco. And yet at one time Mantua was a very respected line of HO trains, and Tyco was nothing more than the same stuff only in ready to run, and/or train set form. Later they used Tyco as the name for the entire line, including the metal steam locomotives RTR and kit.
Looking at my all color 1965-66 Tyco catalog (when by the way the metal 2-8-2 was $29.95 RTR and just $14.98 as a kit), the 11 panel/10 rib gondola ($1.69 kit) has from time to time been the subject of kitbashing and modification articles as it represents a prototype not easily obtainable otherwise. Their stock car differeed enough from the Athearn car to have legitimate interest to modelers at the time. Even their somewhat generic 40 ft boxcar came in interesting roadnames such as Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo (kit price $1.98). They had a bunk car that is not without interest as a nice compliment to the bunk car in the 1959-60 Revell color catalog, and their civil war freight cars that went with the General locomotive are still valued by period modelers who are willing to regard the bodies and trucks as starting points.
My hunch is that most of the comments above about Tyco are dealing with a later era of the stuff. Even when Tyco had descended into pure trainset level I recall a 50 foot flatcar that was nicely detailed and had enough weight to track well. I think I have one or two of them around here somewhere, equipped with new trucks and body mounted KDs. I seem to recall a later trainset gon had some adherents amoung the kitbashers and itself was not the same as the old old Tyco gondola. The all metal frames on some of my old Tyco/Mantua boxcars and reefers make them track very well, even if they make body mounted couplers more of a challenge. I have purchased nicely painted and decaled tanks cars and chemical tank cars that, when I looked at that bottoms of them after getting them home, turned out to be Tyco. Someone nicely stripped off the old thick paint.
So I guess my reaction to a Tyco grab bag would be to say -- tell me what's in it, and what era of Tyco we are talking about. If you are a kitbasher and just the right cars are included, the price could be worth it.
Dave Nelson
As of this past spring, shipping to Canada is like shipping to the UK. 120 cars weighing 35 pounds would cost around $70 to ship. The same package would ship any where in the US for around $20. e-bay will take 10% of the domestic shipping cost, but nothing on international. Thus the free shipping to the US,
So many trains, so little time,
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I wish I still had the two locos I remember from when I was a kid, early 60's Tyco, one was an 0-6-0 tank loco, the die cast body was pitting, but did it ever run, and with all the weight it could pull very nicely. Center drivers unflanged. And an 0-4-0 which I thinkw as also a tank loco, NOT a Dockside, that one went missing after I took it and a couple of cars for display at my elementary school as part of a hobby display. The cars all came back home, but that's the alst I can ever recall seeing that particular loco. I don;t even have a picture of it anymore.
Edit: Oh, I was off, this was from the 50's. The blue boxes, before the red. The catalog I had was about a 1956 edition.
Contrast to my first train set that was 'mine', which was a Tyco F unit, in Santa Fe blue and yellow - one truck powered, with traction tires, noisy running, although it was sort of a diesel growl. I THINK it was before the COnsolidated Foods days, but it was already not great quality compared to the older stuff.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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I have fond memories of my Tyco trains. I started with them and had a lot of fun with them. I ran them on brass track from Atlas including flex track with fiber ties. Fortunately, no one was around to tell me they were junk.
I have better stuff now, but I'm not sure I have any more fun now than I did when I first started out.
Given the poor condition of these models, I would say $1 per car is generous, $0.50 probably fair.
Enjoy
Paul
Paul,
You took the easy way,as far as track was concerned, how about Atlas Brass rail,on fiber ties, hand spiked, you got 99ft,of track that way.
Cheers,
Frank
richhotrainFor $150, you can buy 75 Tyco cars.
The seller needs to move the decimal point over 2 places because that junk pile is worth about a buck fifty.
I have some Tyco cars and I installed BB trucks with body mounted KDs. Operating stock Tyco was a form of temporary insanity. I say temporary because they never ran that long
Jim
This one is for Rich,
Tyco, whats not to like.
I'm going to trade in all my Exact Rail, BLMA, Atlas and Athearn for more like these. BTW, I think these two are from 1978
Derek
Here is another one for Rich