Santa Fe

Global Covered Wagons: Tyco’s F-Units

[Author's Note: This was originally posted at the Tyco Collectors' Forum in autumn 2006, long before I developed the "GIC Guide" format. As the information is pertinent, I opted to turn it into its own guide, but haven't yet revised it into its own format. The text below is from the original Forum post]

A Tale of 630's

BOXCAR BONANZA!
from their earliest days in the blue-box era, Tyco kept a 40-foot sliding door boxcar in its line – tooling that survived with few modifications right up to the “new Mantua” split in 1978, and beyond.

The Tyco Trailer Jet

It’s no secret that I love piggybacks. As a kid I discovered early on that while HO scale automobiles were hard to come by - and expensive - the trucks sold alongside HotWheels in the toy aisles almost anywhere were almost perfect… and cheap…

…I had lots of HO scale trucks!