My 1st train I got was for Christmas in 1968, I was 7 years old, Tyco/Mantua steam set called The Iron Horse, It was based on a Tv show by the same name. I still have it and it still runs great. What has really made it special and I didn't know at the time and found out years later was that my father had always wanted a train set but his family couldn't afford one, So he not only got it for me , he also bought for him and it was both of our 1st train together.
I received my first Train set in 2014. It is an Allstate Mechanical Train set, Model 9740. My youngest Daughter gave it to me for Christmas that year. She got it from her Elementary school rumage sale. I had mentioned to her about taking her to the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. She declined, but brought the train set home a couple weeks later. We set it up around the Christmas tree that year. I suppose, she thought I was interested in model trains. I wasnt at the time, but I have recently ( the last year or so) been thinking of taking up the hobby. I am now estranged from her, but take the set out every now and again to imagine her laughter and smiles for a few moments. I watch a few channels like SMT trains, and Sams trains, and a couple others. I have been looking at perhaps getting a small set in N gauge or TT120.
I received my first train set Christmas of 1981 when I was 7 years old and it was the Tyco Chattanooga Choo-choo set #7318. I received it from an aunt and uncle who lived in Chattanooga Tennessee at the time and when my family would visit them we would always go see the Chattanooga Choo-choo train terminal in downtown Chattanooga. The terminal is now a hotel with lots of rich history about the terminal and city of Chattanooga on display. We still drop by there as well as the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) whenever we are passing through that area and I highly recommend checking them both out anytime anyone is in the Chattanooga area. I still have my Chattanooga Choo-choo train set and enjoy runnning it with my son (now 10) who enjoys trains as much as I did when I was his age and still today. Thank you for a great channel and for reviewing/repairing many of these great treasures from the past.
My first train set was an HO Bachmann Golden Spike set. It came with an Union Pacific GP-40 diesel #866 with a UP reefer car, Great Northern stock car, Canadian Pacific coal hopper, a Quaker tank car and a UP caboose. It also came with a plasticville station, signal bridge, plastic figures, road signs etc. with an oval loop of track and a siding. I think I received it around the time I was born, but didn't use it until I was 9 years old, around the time I got my first Lionel O gauge set, which was a New York Central Flyer set with Railsounds. It was really great set to get started with, plus over the years it allowed me to learn how to repair my model trains as needed. I still have it, even though it doesn't get much runtime compared to my newer trains. I plan to fix the cars some more to get them back into service.
I am in my mid 40's and my first set was last Christmas. I picked up the Bachmann Rail Chief to go around the Christmas tree and was hooked. It was special because I set it up together with my daughter and in no time we had it hauling candy canes and Hershey kisses around the tree. 😂 Being a Tyco slot car fan it was a natural progression to start picking up old Tyco trains. I really enjoy working on them and getting them running again.
Love the Silver Streak trainset, looks so cool. My first trainset i got, was during Cbristmas of 2021. It is a Bachmann Santa Fe Trainset, it comes with a FT diesel, a UP Gondola, a D&H Hopper, and a brown and yellow Santa Fe Caboose. It was only a circle of track, so naturally I bought some used straight track for it at my local hobby shop. Now this set is important, because it sparked my obsession with collecting model trains, before I was hesitant to start a layout/collection, but ever since then I finally have a reason to start a collection. Since then I now have 8 locos, those are as follows 1. Bachmann FT as previously mentioned 2. Athern Bluebox UP Dash-9 3. Tyco Santa Fe Alco C630 4. 80's Bachmann Santa Fe F unit (Non-running) 5. AHM C-Liner (Also Santa Fe) 6. 2 Life-Like GP38-2 locos, Santa Fe (Broken), and CSX (Dummy) 7. Tyco GP9 shell in Yellow paint, (forgot the road name) I also have a lot of old used freight cars, I love collecting vintage freight cars (especially boxcars). That's the history of my collection as of now, I have videos of my collection on my UA-cam Channel.
My first train set was a bachmann trainset from1979/ 1980.It may have been a special dealer edition Georgia Pacific set.It came with an santa fe U36b #350 ,an heavy duty flatcar with logs and a rock island hopper wide vision caboose and i belive a swift reefer and a dual crossing gate with blue power pack with yellow contril knob I havnt been able to find it anywhere even in catalogs I believe it was a special Georgia Pacific set that the retailer had and was unique to their store, but it was the old 79 or 80 version bachmann released another special georgia pacific set in the mid 80s in white and red boxes with a gp 40 santa fe, mine was in yellow boxes. Idk but its not in any bachmann catalogs that ive saw, maybe im missing it, the closest thing to it was the silverado set. Maybe it was that one but with different cars than in the catalog..Bachmann did that sometimes. The u36b was a pancake drive ....the log car was a 4 truck heavy duty log car and was blue..the caboose was red and yellow with roof walks. It came with brass track and we expanded it with moore track and a tyco kellogs covered hopper a tyco railbox box car and a tyco The Rock crane and boom tender. It also came with a freight station. We nailed all the track down on a 4x8 piece of plywood..I thought it might have been the santa fe version of the King of the Road set but that one didnt come with a crossing gate and a building but mine did..I know it was around 79 80 or 81 that i got it.. i sure wish i had kept it. The newer mid 80s georgia pacific set is availae used right now on ebay i believe for around 400$ Very rare set both versions..the newer one comes with a coronet car ..and bachmanns offset streamline cupola cabooseand a atsf gp40 instead of u36b I just remember something about it saying georgia pacific and my grandpa got it at a hardware srore he always went to in Clayton county Georgia.
Years before we met, my wife had saved a few of her dad's model trains including a Tyco Silver Streak C430. Might be a rehab project down the road so it can join other Alcos on my layout. If memory serves, my first train set was AHM Thunderchief (Baltimore & Ohio), followed by Tyco Over & Under (Santa Fe). Both are long gone but childhood memories eventually convinced me to get back into the hobby years later. Nice collection of Tyco tank cars. Considering current prices of rolling stock, it's difficult to comprehend $0.99 for the Texaco tank car. Wow, bring back that pricing!
Well I’ll go off of HO gauge. My first HO set I got when I was a kid, I don’t remember how old. But it was a hawthorn village marine train set, which I thought was cool cause I’m big into military and history. And since then the collection has grown
Great video! My first set was the 1982 Life-Like Campbell Soup train set. I don't know what happened to the original locomotive shell, but I was reunited with the drive for it several years later, and it now powers a second Campbell Soup set that I bought! The oil tank could have easily been sourced from Bachmann, or its manufacturer. My Campbell Soup sets have a boxcar from Bachmann tooling (but in a Life-Like box), and the tank car is from Pemco tooling! That one took quite a bit of searching, as it closely but not exactly resembles the Tyco tank car!
My first train set was a Lionel set received for Christmas I think it was 1963 or thereabouts. It was a simple circle layout with a model steam locomotive, tender, couple of cars and a caboose. Jump ahead many years later to around 2002 or 2003 and I bought my kids a Bachmann HO scale 'Harry Potter Hogwarts Express' train set and that reignited my love of model trains. Kids are grown up now and I still have that Hogwarts Express train set. Bought a Bachmann HO scale 'Rail Chief' set a couple of months ago and I enjoy it too. I found a Tyco Silver Streak loco at a local flea market/antiques emporium unfortunately it turned out to be a non-runner so I turned it into non-powered rolling stock and pull it around with my GP40 model loco the Silver Streak loco looks snazzy in the setup.
I can't remember which was my first. I'm 55 now. I'm thinking it was the 119 or the jupiter locomotive. I recently started up the hobby again and would love love love to add your chrome Silverstreak. I'm addicted!
Watching your videos and SMT mainline has made me dig out all my own stuff, test them, restore them, and even make videos about them. So Thank you for the inspiration.
Lionel Thunderball Freight Train set for Christmas with a plywood board my dad mounted more track than what the set came with. There was a sheet of “grass” on it that gave me splinters. Nothing of that set remains as I played with it very hard. My wife still has her Lionel Blue Streak Freight set and it still works to this day. Girls take better care of their stuff than boys, I guess! Congrats on the 1000!!!
your videos are pretty good how you do enjoy them even though I don't comment all the time I still watch it though keep up the good work my friend I'll keep watching
My first train set was a Bachmann Power House train set, Christmas of 1985 or 86. I was 6 years old at the time. I still have that set today at 42 years old. The loco still works but it has broken gears. A few cars have been repurposed but still in my collection
What are the odds? I have a very very simular story to you, but I got my first train set for my birthday in 1986. Now that I am 42 as well, my Santa Fe F7 had split nylon gears. CE glue and baking soda, with a minimum amount of filing around the gear teeth; my first loco roared back to life. I also converted it to DCC and updated to LED lighting while I was in there.
It could have been called the Silver Streak Chrome Oil Express set! My first train set was a Lionel O scale Pennsylvania Flyer Set but My first HO scale set was the Tyco #7312 Twin Diesel Freight set that I fell in love with and got it for Christmas, My first set was given to me when I was five years old and 54 years later still into model railroad trains! Many years and many scales later!
I got the silver streak as my first set on 79 Christmas. I got my use out of that set as a kid being my first train. So 2 yrs ago I saw that train set on ebay and little behold I bought it and 1500.00 worth of accessories I think tyco should've put this set in in a city expander layout with pipe loader unloader and a few other accessories. I got many buildingings to go with it. Wouldve looked great in an industrial setting. I also like your idea of a chrome special edition too. Tyco wouldve stayed in business had they had creative thinking ideas like these.
Great video, I wish manufacturers were still making chrome model trains. And my first train set what is a Lionel polar express. I am doing HO scale now, great video and I subscribed. God bless you and your entire family, especially your daughters. I have loved trains all my life
Thats a great milestone, congrats for reaching 1K. (Slightly jealous... just kidding) The all chrome edition looks better on the track than in the boxes, actually pretty neat! I'm from the North so I have to script my videos...... Ha ha
Man o man this brings back memories. I wanted the Silver Streak so bad. I remember it being in a catalog, maybe a 1983 Sears Christmas Wish book? Never got it. Must have been bad that year.😢
Great video, I wish manufacturers were still making chrome model trains. And my first train set what is a Lionel polar express. I am doing HO scale now, great video and I subscribed.
Aye I'm subscribed and I'm 16 and very new to the hobby of ho trains and my first train set was a listing on ebay of a burlington northern bachmann locomotive, a bachmann controller, a rail switcher and a circle of track. It's special because of the sadness I felt when the gears started to crack and break and to this day I haven't been able to fix it. So yeah that's my entry Pick me !!!!
My first train set was the Tony the Tiger electric train that you bought from the back of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes cereal. It was a real disappointment. Christmas morning I was so excited about running my new train set. Put it together and to my disappointment it wouldn't even run.
Sliver Streak came in 2 colour scrams one with a silver roof and one with a red roof I own 4 sliver streak models 3 are running 4th needs brushes, and there is a shark nose that's rear to get. I hat the set as a and have fond mormeys running it. I still run my models on my HO layout form time to time.
When I had my first train set was back in 1986 or 1987 when I was just a kid the best Christmas I ever had besides getting a pc for Christmas for one it was a train set and that year my bro got megatron and I got shockwave transformers and we still have our trains from our first train set and we still have the parts I don’t know if they work at all
My first train set was for Christmas 1975. I was 6 years old. It was Tyco and it had 2 Santa Fe Red and Chrome F units, one powered and one dummy. The cars were the great northern flat car with the 3 tractors, the 50 foot pulp wood flat car, the Hershey's Reefer, a Burlington Northern green 50 foot boxcar and a matching Santa Fe caboose. The track was a figure 8 over and under setup. I cherished that train. Unfortunately it has long been gone from my posession. I have been looking for a complete set of it, but I can't find it.
You made a blooper on one of the tank cars. You called it "Sunco" You left out the middle 'o' from the word. Sun-O-Co is the acronym for Sun Oil Company = Sunoco. My first train set, still have it and it works, is an original A.C.Gilbert American Flyer "S" Gauge train set. I received on my 6th birthday in January 1957. A 4-6-2 w/tender, box car, flat car, tank car and caboose. When power was applied to the rails, the brakeman would move into the lighted caboose.
My first train set was an Athearn Hustler set. It contained the hustler loco(red) , caboose, gondola, and stock car. Mom and Dad had a good sized dinning room table. It was large enough to hold the loop of track. I sat at that table for hours running that train. Finally had to take it back to the store as I had to have the rubber bands replaced.
My first train set ever was the TYCO silver streak train set just like you! I remember just dreaming about that set lol I wanted that set so bad for Christmas and I seen it at KB Toys in our mall and little did I know my parents seen it as well and told me all Christmas season they couldn't afford it that they were getting me some old ho scale set from a flea market and yeah I was disappointed by that as a kid because man I really wanted that TYCO silver streak set just the chrome and red as a kid I mean wow did that set stand out! But anyway sure enough on Christmas morning under our tree was a huge square box and I knew there was one thing I wanted came in a box like that I tore that thing open as fast as I could on Christmas morning and sure enough it was that TYCO silver streak set man was I excited I played with that thing for years wore it out and I actually still have it today runs excellent! Anyway that's my first train set story! TYCO trains are just awesome I loved em when I was a kid and still love em I can put that silver streak set on the tracks and run it today and man does the memories just come flooding back!! Anyway keep the excellent videos coming road and rail there great I enjoy all of em!!!
The Silver Streak could have 1: copied the passenger train from the 1976 movie with Richard Pryor OR 2: made to look like either the Burlington Silver Streak diesel/passenger train or the Zephyr streamlined passenger train. All chrome coaches would have bee beautiful.
I had a Silver Streak set like this and I still have some of the pieces. For me though, it was a huge let down as I was a huge fan of the movie "Silver Streak" and felt that the engine should have looked like the movie's locomotive!
I have posted 2 or 3 other videos on the Silver Streak and have had a couple other similar comments. Not sure why Tyco went with that name other than maybe it looked like a silver streak when running.
@@VintageRoadRail Thanks for letting me know, feels better to know I'm not alone in that sentiment. The Tyco "Silver Streak" color scheme would have looked great on the movie locomotive. Question for you: did the Silver Streak (Tyco) engine have a handrail running around it?
@@gregblackburn4280 It didn't come with hand rails. By that point Tyco got cheap and stopped including them. I think they stopped around 75 or 76. A couple years before Silver Streak release.
First let me help you out It's Sun Oil Co. So it's pronounced Sun No co or if you look in the yellow diamond with an arrow thru it; Sunoco ! I was cringing just a little lol I was pretty entertained by your idea but when I got my Silver Streak I was drawn to the glow in the dark Intermodal crane piggyback loader so I begged my mom for it I NEED the Silver Streak !! Let me back up though She wasn't my first train !! In '76 I turned 11 and I had a grandpa building layouts up in his attic first in HO and then N but he told my mom those cars are too delicate for little hands . If he wants a train get him a Lionel So I asked Santa for a Train I didn't specify I just said train but mom playing Santa Claus didn't wanna chance that I'd hate what Santa brought me so she followed us kidd to the toy section ( there were 4 of us 2 boys and 2 girls ) so I had time to look at them and I like two so I showed her two ! One was the Lionel Thunderball freight I liked it coz it had a steam engine and a green caboose ( just like what passed our house ) I seen this set on TV too and the boy on TV was on the box it HAD to be good !! Well Christmas came and we raced down the hall to see what Santa brought and I didn't even have to open mine it was sitting under the tree ready to go YAY!!!! You wonder why it wasn't running ?? Coz it had the Sound of steam ( the ball bearings kind ) and I would have heard that but, I got to run it immediately 2 loops coz other people had gifts to open !! I got a couple other things but not much !! I still put a Lionel up under the tree and I bet my kids will too!! The Next year I got TCR Total Control Racing Lighted Blazers that's why I was drawn to the Silver Streak in 78! Mine incidentally, didn't work my grandfather the train modeler couldn't fix it and didn't wanna void any warranties and sent it back Slot cars won out again I got the X-wing Death star Jam set I think it was also TCR but I could be wrong !! I have a Silver Steak and caboose now not the whole set ! I just wanted to modify the caboose with windows and real chains across the steps and add lights inside !! One last thing I would have wired up the diesel horn !! HAVE FUN !!!
Lol, I have been corrected a few times on that goof. I didn't even notice the O in the middle. I won't be making that mistake again. : ) I like slot cars, just don't have room for them and trains. Also a big Star Wars fan, but not of the new trilogy.
@Vintage Road & Rail I figured the O was what you were missing my dad worked at their refinery in Lima !! Yeah I'm not much into the newer Star wars either !! I got another Silver Streak coz I wished mine had worked and so now I'm just waiting for my daughter to come get her stuff and I'll make a train room!! In the Meantime I'm adding glass (acetate) to the silverstreak caboose and a few other details and trying to make handrails for the locomotive!! The Alco C430 is one of my favorite locomotives !!
My 1st train I got was for Christmas in 1968, I was 7 years old, Tyco/Mantua steam set called The Iron Horse, It was based on a Tv show by the same name. I still have it and it still runs great. What has really made it special and I didn't know at the time and found out years later was that my father had always wanted a train set but his family couldn't afford one, So he not only got it for me , he also bought for him and it was both of our 1st train together.
I received my first Train set in 2014. It is an Allstate Mechanical Train set, Model 9740. My youngest Daughter gave it to me for Christmas that year. She got it from her Elementary school rumage sale. I had mentioned to her about taking her to the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. She declined, but brought the train set home a couple weeks later. We set it up around the Christmas tree that year. I suppose, she thought I was interested in model trains. I wasnt at the time, but I have recently ( the last year or so) been thinking of taking up the hobby. I am now estranged from her, but take the set out every now and again to imagine her laughter and smiles for a few moments. I watch a few channels like SMT trains, and Sams trains, and a couple others. I have been looking at perhaps getting a small set in N gauge or TT120.
I received my first train set Christmas of 1981 when I was 7 years old and it was the Tyco Chattanooga Choo-choo set #7318. I received it from an aunt and uncle who lived in Chattanooga Tennessee at the time and when my family would visit them we would always go see the Chattanooga Choo-choo train terminal in downtown Chattanooga. The terminal is now a hotel with lots of rich history about the terminal and city of Chattanooga on display. We still drop by there as well as the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) whenever we are passing through that area and I highly recommend checking them both out anytime anyone is in the Chattanooga area. I still have my Chattanooga Choo-choo train set and enjoy runnning it with my son (now 10) who enjoys trains as much as I did when I was his age and still today. Thank you for a great channel and for reviewing/repairing many of these great treasures from the past.
Nice train set. I have two sets, one steam and the other is a diesel. Do you live in Tennessee? I'm on Ohio now, but was born and raised in TN.
My first train set was an HO Bachmann Golden Spike set. It came with an Union Pacific GP-40 diesel #866 with a UP reefer car, Great Northern stock car, Canadian Pacific coal hopper, a Quaker tank car and a UP caboose. It also came with a plasticville station, signal bridge, plastic figures, road signs etc. with an oval loop of track and a siding. I think I received it around the time I was born, but didn't use it until I was 9 years old, around the time I got my first Lionel O gauge set, which was a New York Central Flyer set with Railsounds. It was really great set to get started with, plus over the years it allowed me to learn how to repair my model trains as needed. I still have it, even though it doesn't get much runtime compared to my newer trains. I plan to fix the cars some more to get them back into service.
I am in my mid 40's and my first set was last Christmas. I picked up the Bachmann Rail Chief to go around the Christmas tree and was hooked. It was special because I set it up together with my daughter and in no time we had it hauling candy canes and Hershey kisses around the tree. 😂
Being a Tyco slot car fan it was a natural progression to start picking up old Tyco trains. I really enjoy working on them and getting them running again.
Love the Silver Streak trainset, looks so cool. My first trainset i got, was during Cbristmas of 2021. It is a Bachmann Santa Fe Trainset, it comes with a FT diesel, a UP Gondola, a D&H Hopper, and a brown and yellow Santa Fe Caboose. It was only a circle of track, so naturally I bought some used straight track for it at my local hobby shop. Now this set is important, because it sparked my obsession with collecting model trains, before I was hesitant to start a layout/collection, but ever since then I finally have a reason to start a collection. Since then I now have 8 locos, those are as follows
1. Bachmann FT as previously mentioned
2. Athern Bluebox UP Dash-9
3. Tyco Santa Fe Alco C630
4. 80's Bachmann Santa Fe F unit (Non-running)
5. AHM C-Liner (Also Santa Fe)
6. 2 Life-Like GP38-2 locos, Santa Fe (Broken), and CSX (Dummy)
7. Tyco GP9 shell in Yellow paint, (forgot the road name)
I also have a lot of old used freight cars, I love collecting vintage freight cars (especially boxcars).
That's the history of my collection as of now, I have videos of my collection on my UA-cam Channel.
My first train set was a bachmann trainset from1979/ 1980.It may have been a special dealer edition Georgia Pacific set.It came with an santa fe
U36b #350 ,an heavy duty flatcar with logs and a rock island hopper wide vision caboose and i belive a swift reefer and a dual crossing gate with blue power pack with yellow contril knob
I havnt been able to find it anywhere even in catalogs
I believe it was a special Georgia Pacific set that the retailer had and was unique to their store, but it was the old 79 or 80 version bachmann released another special georgia pacific set in the mid 80s in white and red boxes with a gp 40 santa fe, mine was in yellow boxes. Idk but its not in any bachmann catalogs that ive saw, maybe im missing it, the closest thing to it was the silverado set. Maybe it was that one but with different cars than in the catalog..Bachmann did that sometimes. The u36b was a pancake drive ....the log car was a 4 truck heavy duty log car and was blue..the caboose was red and yellow with roof walks. It came with brass track and we expanded it with moore track and a tyco kellogs covered hopper a tyco railbox box car and a tyco The Rock crane and boom tender. It also came with a freight station. We nailed all the track down on a 4x8 piece of plywood..I thought it might have been the santa fe version of the King of the Road set but that one didnt come with a crossing gate and a building but mine did..I know it was around 79 80 or 81 that i got it.. i sure wish i had kept it. The newer mid 80s georgia pacific set is availae used right now on ebay i believe for around 400$
Very rare set both versions..the newer one comes with a coronet car ..and bachmanns offset streamline cupola cabooseand a atsf gp40 instead of u36b
I just remember something about it saying georgia pacific and my grandpa got it at a hardware srore he always went to in Clayton county Georgia.
Years before we met, my wife had saved a few of her dad's model trains including a Tyco Silver Streak C430. Might be a rehab project down the road so it can join other Alcos on my layout.
If memory serves, my first train set was AHM Thunderchief (Baltimore & Ohio), followed by Tyco Over & Under (Santa Fe). Both are long gone but childhood memories eventually convinced me to get back into the hobby years later. Nice collection of Tyco tank cars. Considering current prices of rolling stock, it's difficult to comprehend $0.99 for the Texaco tank car. Wow, bring back that pricing!
Well I’ll go off of HO gauge. My first HO set I got when I was a kid, I don’t remember how old. But it was a hawthorn village marine train set, which I thought was cool cause I’m big into military and history. And since then the collection has grown
Great video! My first set was the 1982 Life-Like Campbell Soup train set. I don't know what happened to the original locomotive shell, but I was reunited with the drive for it several years later, and it now powers a second Campbell Soup set that I bought!
The oil tank could have easily been sourced from Bachmann, or its manufacturer. My Campbell Soup sets have a boxcar from Bachmann tooling (but in a Life-Like box), and the tank car is from Pemco tooling! That one took quite a bit of searching, as it closely but not exactly resembles the Tyco tank car!
My first train set was a Lionel set received for Christmas I think it was 1963 or thereabouts. It was a simple circle layout with a model steam locomotive, tender, couple of cars and a caboose. Jump ahead many years later to around 2002 or 2003 and I bought my kids a Bachmann HO scale 'Harry Potter Hogwarts Express' train set and that reignited my love of model trains. Kids are grown up now and I still have that Hogwarts Express train set. Bought a Bachmann HO scale 'Rail Chief' set a couple of months ago and I enjoy it too. I found a Tyco Silver Streak loco at a local flea market/antiques emporium unfortunately it turned out to be a non-runner so I turned it into non-powered rolling stock and pull it around with my GP40 model loco the Silver Streak loco looks snazzy in the setup.
Oh forgot I love your videos they are delightful to watch and don't stop.
Cheers to the next 1000 subs
I can't remember which was my first. I'm 55 now. I'm thinking it was the 119 or the jupiter locomotive. I recently started up the hobby again and would love love love to add your chrome Silverstreak. I'm addicted!
Watching your videos and SMT mainline has made me dig out all my own stuff, test them, restore them, and even make videos about them. So Thank you for the inspiration.
Can you post your email address here for me? Or a good way to contact you.
Lionel Thunderball Freight Train set for Christmas with a plywood board my dad mounted more track than what the set came with. There was a sheet of “grass” on it that gave me splinters. Nothing of that set remains as I played with it very hard. My wife still has her Lionel Blue Streak Freight set and it still works to this day. Girls take better care of their stuff than boys, I guess! Congrats on the 1000!!!
your videos are pretty good how you do enjoy them even though I don't comment all the time I still watch it though keep up the good work my friend I'll keep watching
My first train set was a Bachmann Power House train set, Christmas of 1985 or 86. I was 6 years old at the time. I still have that set today at 42 years old. The loco still works but it has broken gears. A few cars have been repurposed but still in my collection
What are the odds? I have a very very simular story to you, but I got my first train set for my birthday in 1986. Now that I am 42 as well, my Santa Fe F7 had split nylon gears. CE glue and baking soda, with a minimum amount of filing around the gear teeth; my first loco roared back to life. I also converted it to DCC and updated to LED lighting while I was in there.
It could have been called the Silver Streak Chrome Oil Express set! My first train set was a Lionel O scale Pennsylvania Flyer Set but My first HO scale set was the Tyco #7312 Twin Diesel Freight set that I fell in love with and got it for Christmas, My first set was given to me when I was five years old and 54 years later still into model railroad trains! Many years and many scales later!
congratulations for the thousand I can't say the words exercising just keep making the videos the way you do and you'll get a lot more trust me
I got the silver streak as my first set on 79 Christmas. I got my use out of that set as a kid being my first train. So 2 yrs ago I saw that train set on ebay and little behold I bought it and 1500.00 worth of accessories I think tyco should've put this set in in a city expander layout with pipe loader unloader and a few other accessories. I got many buildingings to go with it. Wouldve looked great in an industrial setting. I also like your idea of a chrome special edition too. Tyco wouldve stayed in business had they had creative thinking ideas like these.
Great video, I wish manufacturers were still making chrome model trains. And my first train set what is a Lionel polar express. I am doing HO scale now, great video and I subscribed. God bless you and your entire family, especially your daughters. I have loved trains all my life
Thats a great milestone, congrats for reaching 1K. (Slightly jealous... just kidding) The all chrome edition looks better on the track than in the boxes, actually pretty neat! I'm from the North so I have to script my videos...... Ha ha
Happy 1000 🎆 good stuff!
Man o man this brings back memories. I wanted the Silver Streak so bad. I remember it being in a catalog, maybe a 1983 Sears Christmas Wish book? Never got it. Must have been bad that year.😢
BA k in the early 80's Sears and JCPENNEY'S had some great train sets!
Great video, I wish manufacturers were still making chrome model trains. And my first train set what is a Lionel polar express. I am doing HO scale now, great video and I subscribed.
Aye I'm subscribed and I'm 16 and very new to the hobby of ho trains and my first train set was a listing on ebay of a burlington northern bachmann locomotive, a bachmann controller, a rail switcher and a circle of track.
It's special because of the sadness I felt when the gears started to crack and break and to this day I haven't been able to fix it. So yeah that's my entry
Pick me !!!!
My first train set was the Tony the Tiger electric train that you bought from the back of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes cereal. It was a real disappointment. Christmas morning I was so excited about running my new train set. Put it together and to my disappointment it wouldn't even run.
I have the original Silver Streak train set from the mids 70's. It was a gift from my brother
My all time favorite set. Still have mine from when I was a kid.
My first set was fw Williams repo Canadian Pacific passenger cars al
I just bought these cars for this very reason. I have both versions of the engine as well. Its going to be beautiful.
Nice! You will love it. To bad Tyco didn't make this as a set
I have said the same thing adout TYCO'S Golden Eagle set
Sliver Streak came in 2 colour scrams one with a silver roof and one with a red roof I own 4 sliver streak models 3 are running 4th needs brushes, and there is a shark nose that's rear to get. I hat the set as a and have fond mormeys running it. I still run my models on my HO layout form time to time.
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My 1st train set was a Bachmann Amtrak one Loco and 4 car won in raffle at 30st station.
My first train was 1968 marx train when I was 4years old I got for Christmas couple month ago
When I had my first train set was back in 1986 or 1987 when I was just a kid the best Christmas I ever had besides getting a pc for Christmas for one it was a train set and that year my bro got megatron and I got shockwave transformers and we still have our trains from our first train set and we still have the parts I don’t know if they work at all
My first train set was for Christmas 1975. I was 6 years old. It was Tyco and it had 2 Santa Fe Red and Chrome F units, one powered and one dummy. The cars were the great northern flat car with the 3 tractors, the 50 foot pulp wood flat car, the Hershey's Reefer, a Burlington Northern green 50 foot boxcar and a matching Santa Fe caboose. The track was a figure 8 over and under setup. I cherished that train. Unfortunately it has long been gone from my posession. I have been looking for a complete set of it, but I can't find it.
Some Tyco sets can be easy to find and sadly others are darn near impossible.
You made a blooper on one of the tank cars. You called it "Sunco" You left out the middle 'o' from the word. Sun-O-Co is the acronym for Sun Oil Company = Sunoco. My first train set, still have it and it works, is an original A.C.Gilbert American Flyer "S" Gauge train set. I received on my 6th birthday in January 1957. A 4-6-2 w/tender, box car, flat car, tank car and caboose. When power was applied to the rails, the brakeman would move into the lighted caboose.
Sure did. Didn't catch that. lol S Scale is cool, we have a 4x8 S Scale layout at the train club.
My first train set was an Athearn Hustler set. It contained the hustler loco(red) , caboose, gondola, and stock car. Mom and Dad had a good sized dinning room table. It was large enough to hold the loop of track. I sat at that table for hours running that train. Finally had to take it back to the store as I had to have the rubber bands replaced.
My first train set ever was the TYCO silver streak train set just like you! I remember just dreaming about that set lol I wanted that set so bad for Christmas and I seen it at KB Toys in our mall and little did I know my parents seen it as well and told me all Christmas season they couldn't afford it that they were getting me some old ho scale set from a flea market and yeah I was disappointed by that as a kid because man I really wanted that TYCO silver streak set just the chrome and red as a kid I mean wow did that set stand out! But anyway sure enough on Christmas morning under our tree was a huge square box and I knew there was one thing I wanted came in a box like that I tore that thing open as fast as I could on Christmas morning and sure enough it was that TYCO silver streak set man was I excited I played with that thing for years wore it out and I actually still have it today runs excellent! Anyway that's my first train set story! TYCO trains are just awesome I loved em when I was a kid and still love em I can put that silver streak set on the tracks and run it today and man does the memories just come flooding back!! Anyway keep the excellent videos coming road and rail there great I enjoy all of em!!!
Had one of these when I was 5
The Silver Streak could have 1: copied the passenger train from the 1976 movie with Richard Pryor OR 2: made to look like either the Burlington Silver Streak diesel/passenger train or the Zephyr streamlined passenger train. All chrome coaches would have bee beautiful.
I have the same silver streak locomotion.
My all time favorite locomotive.
I had a Silver Streak set like this and I still have some of the pieces. For me though, it was a huge let down as I was a huge fan of the movie "Silver Streak" and felt that the engine should have looked like the movie's locomotive!
I have posted 2 or 3 other videos on the Silver Streak and have had a couple other similar comments. Not sure why Tyco went with that name other than maybe it looked like a silver streak when running.
@@VintageRoadRail Thanks for letting me know, feels better to know I'm not alone in that sentiment. The Tyco "Silver Streak" color scheme would have looked great on the movie locomotive. Question for you: did the Silver Streak (Tyco) engine have a handrail running around it?
@@gregblackburn4280 It didn't come with hand rails. By that point Tyco got cheap and stopped including them. I think they stopped around 75 or 76. A couple years before Silver Streak release.
@@VintageRoadRail Oh, OK. I guess I was better to my toys than I thought I was.
First let me help you out It's Sun Oil Co. So it's pronounced Sun No co or if you look in the yellow diamond with an arrow thru it; Sunoco ! I was cringing just a little lol I was pretty entertained by your idea but when I got my Silver Streak I was drawn to the glow in the dark Intermodal crane piggyback loader so I begged my mom for it I NEED the Silver Streak !! Let me back up though She wasn't my first train !! In '76 I turned 11 and I had a grandpa building layouts up in his attic first in HO and then N but he told my mom those cars are too delicate for little hands . If he wants a train get him a Lionel So I asked Santa for a Train I didn't specify I just said train but mom playing Santa Claus didn't wanna chance that I'd hate what Santa brought me so she followed us kidd to the toy section ( there were 4 of us 2 boys and 2 girls ) so I had time to look at them and I like two so I showed her two ! One was the Lionel Thunderball freight I liked it coz it had a steam engine and a green caboose ( just like what passed our house ) I seen this set on TV too and the boy on TV was on the box it HAD to be good !! Well Christmas came and we raced down the hall to see what Santa brought and I didn't even have to open mine it was sitting under the tree ready to go YAY!!!! You wonder why it wasn't running ?? Coz it had the Sound of steam ( the ball bearings kind ) and I would have heard that but, I got to run it immediately 2 loops coz other people had gifts to open !! I got a couple other things but not much !! I still put a Lionel up under the tree and I bet my kids will too!! The Next year I got TCR Total Control Racing Lighted Blazers that's why I was drawn to the Silver Streak in 78! Mine incidentally, didn't work my grandfather the train modeler couldn't fix it and didn't wanna void any warranties and sent it back Slot cars won out again I got the X-wing Death star Jam set I think it was also TCR but I could be wrong !! I have a Silver Steak and caboose now not the whole set ! I just wanted to modify the caboose with windows and real chains across the steps and add lights inside !! One last thing I would have wired up the diesel horn !! HAVE FUN !!!
Lol, I have been corrected a few times on that goof. I didn't even notice the O in the middle. I won't be making that mistake again. : ) I like slot cars, just don't have room for them and trains. Also a big Star Wars fan, but not of the new trilogy.
@Vintage Road & Rail I figured the O was what you were missing my dad worked at their refinery in Lima !! Yeah I'm not much into the newer Star wars either !! I got another Silver Streak coz I wished mine had worked and so now I'm just waiting for my daughter to come get her stuff and I'll make a train room!! In the Meantime I'm adding glass (acetate) to the silverstreak caboose and a few other details and trying to make handrails for the locomotive!! The Alco C430 is one of my favorite locomotives !!
I Think You Can Build Your Layout to An L Shape.