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Train Set
Stock Number and Contents Listing
Big Logger
(No. 7409)
This set is listed as NEW for 1982 and is quite different than what
was contained in The Big Logger set in 1980 and '81. For '82 TYCO offers The Big Logger with a red-and-yellow Rock Island
Shark Nose diesel (#222-10); a 50' RailBox Box Car; Log Dump Car with Logs, including an Operating Log Dump with Bin (#952);
and a red with yellow roof streamline Rock Island Caboose. The No. 7940 TYCOSCENE layout board is included with this
set, plus 14-sections of track to make a 36"x45" oval layout using a standard TYCO Power Pack (#895).
Chessie Freight
(No. 7404)
This set, as all TYCO train sets were in '82, is listed as NEW in the catalog.
Notice only 3-digits are provided for the set's number, while the remainder of the TYCO sets for '82 all carry a 7400-series
4-digit stock number. This is obviously a mistake in the catalog. The correct number for this set is not currently
available.
The Chessie Freight was powered by an Lighted F-9 dressed in Chessie System's
colorful scheme (#224-03); a green 50' Burlington Northern Box Car; a blue Conrail 40' Hopper Car; and the General Purpose
red-with-white stripes-and-lettering streamline Caboose. The 17-piece Bridge and Trestle Set (#907) was included with
the set's 14-sections of track to make an elevated 36"x45" oval layout and Power Pack.
King Coal
(No. 7419)
Among the offerings introduced in 1982 by TYCO as "Complete TYCOSCENE
Railroad," this train set included the TYCOSCENE Layout Board (#7940) and the Operating Tractor Loader with Coal Load (#959).
The King Coal train set was powered by an 0-6-0 Lighted Steam Loco dressed in Southern green with yellow lettering and stripes(#257-76);
a red 50' Santa Fe Box Car; a yellow 40' Union Pacific Hopper Car; the Keystone Coal Co. Dump Car to work with the #959 accessory
piece; and the red-with-white stripe and numbered "689" General Purpose streamline Caboose. The set also included TYCO's
then-new standard Power Pack (#895) and 14-sections of track to build a 36"x45" oval layout.
Pipeline Express
(No. 7414)
Listed as both NEW and "As advertised on TV" in the 1982 TYCO catalog is
the Pipeline Express train set. Like a number of the other TYCO train sets for '82, this offering included the TYCOSCENE
Layout Board (#7940). The set was powered by a Lighted red-and-silver Santa Fe GP-20 (#228-21) and included a green
50' Burlington Northern Box Car; a blue 40' Conrail Hopper Car; and red Santa Fe streamline Caboose. The set also featured
TYCO's then-new Operating Pipe Dump Set with Dumping Station and Pipe Load (#953), plus 14-sections of track to create a 36"x45"
oval run by TYCO's #895 Power Pack.
Rail America
(No. 7435)
One of two steam engine powered train sets in the 1982 product catalog,
TYCO's Rail America set also featured the expanded TYCOSCENE Layout Board (#7940 and #7950). The Rail America,
among the high-end of TYCO train sets in '82, also included five accessories. The Piggyback Loader/Unloader (#903) labeled
as "Container Loader Unloader" in the catalog; the Pipe Loader (#958); the Operating Pipe Dump Set with Dumping Station
and Pipe Load (#953); the Operating Log Dump Set with Dumping Station and Log Load (#952); and the Crossing Gate (#908).
A very well equipped train set to say the least.
The train's consist was a red-and-white checkerboard 40' Ralston Purina
Reefer Car; a green 50' Santa Fe Flat Car with a pair of yellow Union Pacific Trailers; a silver Shell Tank Car; a green Burlington
Northern Box Car; and the red General Purpose streamline Caboose. The steam engine was TYCO's 0-8-0 Great Northern
Lighted Steam Loco with Tender (#258-26).
In addition to TYCO's standard Power Pack (#895), the set came with 25-sections
of track with a pair of manual switches that created a 36"x63" double-oval layout.
Switcher Freight
(No. 7401)
This set is listed as NEW for 1982 and is a very basic offering.
Power is TYCO's Lighted Diesel Switcher (#241-21) in red-and-silver Santa Fe paint; a silver 40' Swift Reefer Car; a yellow
Union Pacific Hopper Car; and a red streamline Santa Fe Caboose. A standard TYCO Power Pack and a 36"-circle of
track complete this train set.
US-1 Road & Rail
(No. 3235)
The US-1 Road & Rail set was moved from the train products section
of the catalog, where it was found in 1981, to the US-1 Trucking section for 1982.
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. This set is the same in
contents and number to the 1981 offering.
Virginian
(No. 7424)
TYCO's Virginian train set for 1982 featured the expanded TYCOSCENE Layout
Board (#7940 and #7950) and the Giant Operating Crane (#950), which included a 50' blue and black Steel Flat Car. A
blue-and-yellow Virginian Lighted Alco Century 430 (#235-79) served as the set's motive power and pulled a yellow 50' RailBox
Box Car; a 40' silver Texaco Tank Car; a green Burlington Northern Hopper Car; a yellow 40' Union Pacific Gondola with 3-Pipe
Sections; and a blue with yellow roof Virginian streamline Caboose. The set also came with 25-sections of track and
a pair of manual switches to make a 36"x63" oval layout run by TYCO's standard (#895) Power Pack.
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