Proper use for a Tyco engine

[SpaceMouse]

I voted for other.

What I do with my old "toy" stuff is clean them up get them running as best I can then give them to some kid that really gets excited about seeing trains. I've now done that with 2 of them. I have extra sectional track and extra power supplies and I give them enough to get them going.

To me this is just obvious.

[cheese3]

They are for practicing weahthering and for kitbashing.

[Paul3]

I voted for "firewood", although I don't think buring plastic is the best way to dispose of it. [:)] Perhaps launched from a artillery piece, dropped from a B-52 while strapped to a thermonuclear weapon, or launched by the Space Shuttle on a one way trip to the sun. You know, the usual. [:D]

Tyco, old Bachmann, old Life-Like, and the rest of their ilk was (& is) J-U-N-K. I know, because I had an awful lot of it as a kid to play with. I couldn't wait until I saved up enough money to buy an Athearn or (gasp) an Atlas loco...locos that would actually work and stay on the track, all while pulling a decent amount of cars.

I have always wondered just how many people were chased away from this hobby by the Tyco frustrations...

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[jfugate]

I started to do a detailing upgrade on a Tyco steamer and never finished it ... decided to move to a more modern era -- the 1980s. No steamers in regular operation then.

[Anonymous]

Junk heap. kitbash object anything but keep it in it's current state.

[grandeman]

I've got an old Tyco ATSF F7 and the passenger cars that my Mom bought for me as a little kid. I still remember seeing the train set up in the hobby shop window before we bought it in about 1971. Wouldn't take anything for it now.

[csmith9474]

Although I don't have any of my old Tyco stuff anymore, I wish I did. I would proudly display it and run it. Tyco for a lot of folks was the "gateway drug", if you will. That's what I started with as a young lad, as well as many other modelers I know (although some would never admit it). Then I discovered BBs and the rest is history.

[tstage]

Help to wedge or keep a door open? Seriously, the weathered idea that up_santafe suggested is a good one. I have a Bachmann GE 44-tonner (that I bought off ebay) sitting atop my new computer. I didn't run very well but it still looks good .

Tom

[IRONROOSTER]

If I were still in HO, I would run my Tyco engines. I started with Tyco and have fond memories running them on my first layout. Of course I didn't know then that they weren't any good. I was just having fun.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

I use my dead one as a weathered scenery object.

[Darth Santa Fe]

Just want to see what you all think is the proper use for Tyco's quality engines. I'd rather not have any flaming here, so don't anyone get mad at any of the opinions posted. Everyone remember the Glad commercials, "Don't get mad, get Glad!"[;)]