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Train Set
Stock Number and Contents Listing
The Big Logger
(No. 7316)
TYCO's The Big Logger featured a Santa Fe GP-20 Diesel Loco (#228-21); Log
Loader with Pine Hill Logging Company Log Car (#914); Frisco Autoloader with 6 Cars(#349); Texaco Tank Car;
Santa Fe Caboose; 14-sections of track to make a 36"x45" oval; and power pack.
The Broadway Limited
(No. 7326)
The only passenger train among a collection of freight train sets in the
1981 TYCO catalog is this Amtrak offering. The Broadway Limited set in 1981 is also the final TYCO passenger train set.
Powered by TYCO's shorty GG-1 electric loco dressed in Amtrak's Phase II paint scheme, the set also included examples of each
of the three lighted Amtrak Streamlined Passenger Car body styles in the TYCO line of this era. The set included
a Power Pack(#899) and 14-sections of track, including curved terminal/rerailer section, that made a 36"x45" oval layout.
The Burlington Northern
(No. 7312)
This TYCO train set featured a green Burlington Northern GP-20 (#228-17);
a red Great Northern 40' Flat Car with 3-Culvert Pipe Sections; a yellow Union Pacific 40' Hopper Car; a silver Swift 40'
Reefer Car; and green BN streamlined Caboose. An Operating Crossing Gate (#908) was also featured in this set, plus
a 17-piece Bridge and Trestle Set (#907). In addition to a standard TYCO Power Pack (#899), the set had 14-sections
of track, including a curved terminal/rerailer section, that made a 36"x45" oval train layout.
The Chattanooga Choo-Choo
(No. 7318)
One of two train sets in the 1981 catalog to be powered by a steam engine,
this set featured the 0-8-0 Lighted Steam Loco with Smoke numbered "638" and lettered for TYCO's ficitious "CHATTANOOGA"
(#256-15); a 50' Old Dutch Cleanser Billboard Box Car (#365G); a red-and-black Southern Railway 50' Pulp Wood Car; a green
Burlington Northern 40' Hopper Car; and the streamlined Caboose in red with white stripe bearing the Chattanooga name (#327-15).
A 17-piece Bridge and Trestle Set (#907) with 14-sections of track, including terminal/rerailer curved section making a 36"x45"
oval and standard TYCO Power Pack (#899) round out the contents of this train set in 1981.
The Conrail Freight
(No. 7303)
TYCO lists this set first in its 1981 product catalog. Train sets
begin on page 12 of the '81 catalog and continue through page 22. "The Conrail Freight" featured an F-9 diesel dressed
in Conrail blue with white lettering; a 50' green BN Box Car; a yellow Union Pacific Hopper Car and the generic red streamlined
caboose decorated with a pair of white horizontal stripes carrying and number 638. This caboose is TYCO's #327-98
General Purpose Caboose. The set also contained 12-sections of track with rerailer section to construct
and 35"-circle and a Power Pack.
The Mammoth of the Rails
(No. 7336)
"The Mammoth of the Rails" (Set No. 7336) featured a Chattanooga 0-8-0
Steam Loco; Purina Reefer Car; Burlington Northern Hopper Car; Great Northern Skid Flat Car
with Culvert Pipe Sections; Union Pacific Gondola with Pipe Sections; 50' RailBox Billboard Box Car; Shell Tank Car; Chattanooga Caboose; 24
Signs and Poles; 28-sections of track to make a 45"x63" double oval with 2 Remote Control Switches Steam Whistle
in Billboard; and Power Pack.
The Piggyback Freight
(No. 7310)
This train set is listed as NEW in the 1981 TYCO product catalog.
A red-and-silver Santa Fe GP-20 (#228-21) powers the set. The rolling stock is made up of three freight cars and a caboose.
A green Santa Fe Piggbyback Flat Car with 2 Union Pacific yellow trailers; a blue Conrail 40' Hopper Car; a green Burlington
Northern 40' Gondola with 3-pipe sections; and a red streamlined Santa Fe Caboose were included in this set. Additionally,
the Operating Piggyback Loader/Unloader (#903) is included in the set along with a Power Pack and 14-sections of track,
including a curved terminal/rerailer that makes a 36"x45" oval.
Rock Island Express
(No. 7309)
A lighted red-and-yellow with white lettering Rock Island Shark Nose diesel
served as the motive power for this TYCO train set. The Rock Island Shark pulled a 50' green Burlington Northern Box
Car; a yellow Union Pacific 40' Gondola holding 3-pipe sections; and a red with yellow roof Rock Island streamlined Caboose.
In addition to a standard TYCO Power Pack, the set came with 14-sections of track, including a cruved terminal/rerailer section
that would make a 36"x45" oval layout.
The Santa Fe Action Freight
(No. 7335)
TYCO's Santa Fe Action Freight (Set No. 7335) featured a Santa
Fe Alco Super630 Diesel Loco; Burlington Northern Hopper Car; Great Northern Skid Flat with Culvert Pipes; Texaco
Tank Car; 50' Jell-O Billboard Reefer; Union Pacific Gondola with Pipe Sections; Oscar Mayer Old Time Reefer; Log
Dump Car; Santa Fe Caboose; Operating Log Dump with Track; 24 Signs and Poles; 20-sections of track to make a 45"x45" oval;
2 Manual Switches and Power Pack.
The Steel Hauler
(No. 7323)
Found only in TYCO's 1981 catalog, "The Steel Hauler" (Set No. 7323) featured
an Alco Super 630 Diesel Loco; Hopper Car; Billboard Box Car; 50' Box Car; 50' Steel Car with Girders;
Gondola with Barrels; Caboose; Operating Gantry Crane; 14-sections of track to make a 36"x45" oval; and power pack.
This was the third and final version of the ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF Alco
Super 630 produced by TYCO. Review the page on that particular locomotive for details on the various versions of ICG
paint done by TYCO throughout its run. The Giant Operating Crane, also sold separately as item No. 950, was introduced
with this train set in 1981. This crane is a fairly rare entry in TYCO's Action Cars & Accessories line and
does occasionaly increase the value of this train set among collector's for this set, regardless of the fact that
the set was produced in large quantity.
US-1 Road & Rail
(No. 3235)
TYCO's HO-scale train sets were numbered in the 7300-series in 1981, with
the exception of this set. The group of US-1 Electric Trucking sets were all numbered in the 3200-series, so by numbers
this could more properly be labeled among the US-1 Trucking line instead of the HO-scale Electric Trains. However, TYCO
did list this set on page 22 in the middle of the train products, so it'll be considered among such in this review.
The US-1 Road & Rail set was NEW for 1981. This year was the
first year TYCO offered its US-1 Electric Trucking line. Similar in style to the slot cars mixed with trains sets of
the past, this set mixed a US-1 Trucking set with a train set.
The train set contents were a Lighted Alco Century 430 in yellow-and-red
Rock Island dress (#235-10); a yellow 40' Union Pacific Hopper Car (#344E); a green 50' Burlington Northern Box Car; a silver
Texaco Tank Car (#315A); and a red with yellow roof Rock Island streamline Caboose (#327-10). A Power Pack (#899) and
enough track to create a 39"x48" layout. TYCO included two road-and-rail straight crossing sections.
The trucking portion of the set included a Dump Truck (#3901); Truck Cab
(#3904) and Gravel Trailer (#3925); Dump Yard; Gravel Bin; Operating Gravel Hopper; Logs; Highway Signs; 16-sections of US-1
track; a pair of red US-1 controllers; and TYCO's racing line wall Power Pack.
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