Now isy turn to get donated🤑👍

Definitely cool layout! Only problem with brass track occurs when you don't run trains enough. I would certainly think about some plexi-glass around the edges, bro. Your trains are perilously close to the edge. Great video!

Congratulations you got the same box I received

All rolling stock back then had talgo trucks (couplers mounted to the trucks). Easily cut off and body mount Kadee coupler. Cheers from eastern TN

I can get one of these but it’s not JC Penney’s version in box. Anyone interested?

How fast can it go

Thats the best continuous loop which doesnt look like it at the overall. I put off building with all the power blocks mess. Love the DCC.

Great video. I just got the rock island dl 109, and it doesn’t work right. When I apply full power (I have the same tracks and similar transformer to you) only the light shines, but it doesn’t move. The box of mine also doesn’t say DCC. Do you think you an explanation of this?

What is that little foam cradle you have there? Looks great for holding trains and stuff

I love lighted track bumpers, so of course I just had to get a couple of these for my layout!

I've got the same kind of railroad crossing on my current 11x8 L-shape HO-scale model train layout. It's mostly a DCC layout with nickel-silver Bachmann E-Z Track and realistic landscaping, but it's got a fun "retro" aesthetic to it. Of course in the usual advertising fashion they stretch the truth by dubbing in the sound of a real railroad crossing bell; on the actual TYCO crossing the bell is much smaller, but it's still such a cool and unique accessory from TYCO. (Bachmann's attempt at such a flashing and ringing crossing signal at that time wasn't as good.)

Subscribed to your 2nd channel. Very cool stuff

Do I spy a Herc model in the background?

Wow my uncle bought me this for Christmas in 1981 !! Loved it so much unfortunately I had a fire 🔥in my house in July of 1984 and lost it😢....it was a beautiful train set. I loved the freight locomotive wish I could at least find it...

I have the Silver steak engine and caboos.I got them from my neighbor friend back in 1979.Always liked the crome colored cars..

Also u should try check out the exclusive mernards Bachmann heartland express train set! Also I just ordered my 1st rapido train car it was an auto flood coal hopper!

This was my first train set and I loved it

My hometown train store. Been here a bunch. So glad I came across this channel.

The silver streak was my first set too. Christmas of 1979. Age 5 Still have all the equipment and created a lifelong love of model railroading.

I got this set for christmas 1977..Mine had the same engine but the set had a baby ruth box car and a shell crome color shell gas tanker..

Sweet

Awesome haul! I really like the pemco Santa Fe c430 your youngest daughter gave you.

I had this layout as a child in the 80s.

Very nice haul. I love that Mehano set. I've got 2 Mehano Mikado 2-8-2's. I got 4 new (to me) engines for Christmas. 3 MRC F-7's: 2 FP-7A's & 1 F-7B and an Athearn FP-7A in Amtrak livery to pull my Amtrak consist. I never knew MRC (Model Rectifier Corporation) made HO scale locomotives. They are from around 1999, and are in like new condition. They feature 5 pole skewed armatures in a can motor with 2 brass flywheels, cab interior, see through metal Farr grills, all grab irons installed except for the eyebrows and front sill grabs and are DCC ready. All I did was take off the wheel covers, clean the wheels and lube the gears. They run like silk and are very quiet. I love 'em. Only paid around $50.00 each including the shipping. Just as good as my DCC ready Atlas if not better. Happy New Year from eastern TN

President's Choice is a line of grocery products sold in grocery stores owned by George Weston Inc like Loblaws, Dominion, No Frills, etc in Canada. The first President's Choice train sets come out for Christmas 1992, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the line of products. No sets were released in 1996, 2000, 2003 and 2004. They were made by Mehano and featured locomotives (diesel & steam) decorated for either CN or CP. Of note Mehano did at least tool up the correct fronts for a few of the steamers including the CN 6060 "Bullet Nose Betty" 4-8-2 mountain type. This was the first time this style of front was offered in plastic.

Merry Christmas!

Speaking of Transformers, PointlessHub did a pretty solid retrospective of the original series (and 1986 film) recently. The show was quite goofy, but it was fun.

Merry Xmas🙋. Your 5702 CN PC loco is 1 of 5 K5 Hudsons. 5700 was to be preserved. Accidentally scrapped in London. The number plates of 5700 were put on 5703 and now reside in St Thomas Ontario as 5700. At the Elgin County Railway Museum🇨🇦. You can see it on there website. It's about 35mins from my house.

Awesome

Time does fly. Thanks for sharing. Happy holidays to you, and yours. It has been a good one.

Hi Vintage Road Rail & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Vintage Road Rail & Friends Randy

I had this train set along time ago, but it didn't come with the fake ballast on the tracks. I think track with the fake ballast is like a millennial invention.

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I found the Sarah Lee tyco new in a box on ebay.

I have a similar Bachmann set from the mid 90s and it still runs today despite being over 20+ years old, definitely needs a cleaning and lubrication though, it runs, definitely not as well as it used to, and I've recently learned all about the terrors of the Pancake Motors but I should be able to clean it up and do it some good maintenance thanks to KZbin videos

I was born in 1974 also! I've loved trains since I could see them.

Amazing video! A brand new TYCO train set.👍

Most of these sets I was familiar with, ended up with the same "Tyco whine", slipping gears.

This had to be one of the most popular sets back in the 70's. I had one, my neighbors had one, half of my classmates had one. Everybody had one. Great memories. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Happy holidays.

I got this set for Christmas one year in late seventies or early eighties. Mine had black diesel train.

My first set. Christmas of 79

My first set in chrismast of 79! Remember it like it was yesterday!

I had this exact same set but my center flow hopper was for Kellogg’s, not old Dutch cleanser. Great memories!

I have ridden the Turboliners many times and have even been in the cab a couple of times. A staple of Amtrak’s Empire Service in the 80s and early 90s