Tyco HO Trains

It may as well have been me on the cover, entirely enthralled by my HO train. If I recall correctly (and that's a big "if"), the set I received was No. T6521A, the Freight Hustler, in the PRR scheme. Hard to believe that a complete train set was only $25! Not long afterward I got No. 862, the automatic coal unloading trestle with operating hopper, $6.98.

After changing names and ownership several times between 1930 and 2001, Tyco was in 1988 the third largest toy manufacturer in the US; as a company it now no longer exists. Mattel sells RC products under the Tyco R/C brand name, and Model Power still sells a small assortment of model trains that were released under the original Mantua name in the late 90s.

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