Hopping I am not breaking any rules with this post. There are a few iteams that I could use but I cannot go to E Bay for. I have been E Bay free for 6 years and don’t want to get hooked again.
1 Proto 2000 E-6 DC plug. My E-6B has set for 5 years and seems real stiff. Don’t want to BBQ a decoder while working on it.
2 One Truck Side Frame for a old style Athearn F7 super weight.
One Side frame for an old style Athearn F7. I picked up a bag of four, at a train show some years ago. The bag was an official looking Athearn bag, like it came from Athearn. As I understand it Horizon Hobbies picked up the Athearn line, and might still offer them thru a replacement parts operation.
I think the cheapest source of tyco trucks is to pick up some tyco cars at a train show and cannibalize them.
Are you asking about the DCC “dummy plug?” If so, they’re all the same. It shorts out pins 1-7-8 and 4-5-6 if I recall. I have a bunch but I don’t remember which one came from the E-6 (should be the same as any LL ones)
Athearn super-weight? Is that the blue-box? Is it the redesigned plastic sideframe that pushes in to the stamped metal/rivet hole? Got some of those, too.
Trucks? I can send you several DOZEN. You want roller bearing or solid journal? Are you talking about the TALGO type with the coupler attached and does the bolster clip in or screw in to the car bolster?
SD-50 I only have one-of, a gift from my nephew, and I can’t give up the sideframe… maybe someone else?
Tyco trucks, as in, locomotice or car? I have some Tyco cars in that box o’ junk I bought a while ago.
Dummy plugs, I should have a few. I think the E units just use a simple shorted pin 8 pin plug, not the kind with allt he diodes on like the Geeps. I don;t have any out of P2Ks, other than said Geeps (and maybe one S1, also with all the diodes) buts I have plenty of generic ones from other locos.
Ed, getting old sucks caboose does it not! [(-D] You think forgetting that is bad? At one point I had 33 of the Tyco Old Dutch Hoppers. I did sell 3 of them on E Bay years ago. That should leave 30 right? I can only find 20 of them so far? [^o)]
By the way Ed, I have sent you another PM.
Randy, do you still have the Tyco Trucks? I have sent you a PM as well.
By the way, any folks that think I am nuts for liking the Tyco Old Dutch Hoppers, well you are right! [(-D] But, when I am done with them, there not the same rolling stock you had as a kid. [swg]
What a nice BIG layout! Those aren’t the Old Dutch cars I was thinking of. Seems to me that there was a 40’ Old Dutch covered hopper that I recall.
Nothing wrong with nostalgia! I still look at an AHM B&O coach that I bought at Woolworth’s after Christmas back in 1970. I think it was $3.99. I’ll never run it but I’ll never get rid of it either.
The trucks I have are all of the Athearn Blue-Box type. Seems to me that there is a two-pronged type rivet that maybe you could adapt to the Tyco style of mounting?
OR could you just cement a plug of styrene into the car bolster and drill it for a screw? There has to be a simple way to adapt the Athearn truck to a Tyco car…
Either way, I’ll be sending you a package of stuff I hope you can use [:D]
Ed, as far as I know all of the Old Dutch Hoppers made by Tyco where 50 foot. I think they made some wood reffers that may have been 40 footers. I have never seen any in person but did see some on E Bay when I was buying.
I think they are 55’ or 60’ actually. Longer boxes than normal. They also had (as I found out since I happen to have one) Old Dutch box cars. Also longer ones, maybe also 60’. There was a whole series of reefers with various billboard logos - I had a lot of those but kept the ones we had specific to our family - like mine is the Hershey chocolate one. Dad’s was the Schlitz beer one. Crazy stuff.
How many Tyco trucks do you need? I’ve got a bunch of those talgo type trucks that came off of old freight cars I bought for kitbashing. Not sure any of them are actually Tyco though, a lot of AHM, and other brands.
