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F9-B Diesel Locomotive
Penn Central
F9-B Diesel Locomotive
Santa Fe
No. 230H
No. 230-21
From the beginning of the Brown Box Era, TYCO used a letter suffix designation
on stock numbers to note roadnames, this changes with the 1975-76 catalog. As of the 1975 listings, TYCO uses the two-digit
suffix to model numbers to note a loco or freight car's roadname. The Santa Fe F9-B would have been TYCO's 230H item,
until the '75 system change made it 230-21. The Santa Fe F9-B is last listed in a TYCO catalog in 1976.
As with TYCO's F-9A, the B or Booster unit is really a late phase
F-7B, but was cataloged always as an F-9B.
During the "Red Box Era" prior to 1970, the B-unit can
be found in a wide variety of roadnames and in Powered and Non-Powered versions. During the "Brown Box Era" of the '70s,
TYCO only officially catalogs a Santa Fe Passenger F-9B unit. Collectors should note that other roadnames do appear
for the F-9B in the famous TYCO "Brown Boxes," among them are a bright-green Penn Central offering.
The F-9B didn't fare as well as its A-unit counterpart under the
Consolidated Foods ownership of TYCO. The F-9B last appears in the 1976 catalog. Mantua re-introduces this loco during
its second run in HO-scale model trains from 1978 through 2001.
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