TYCO US1 Custom Portable Track Layout
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- TYCO US1 Electric Trucking custom layout
Features:
• 44 x 88 inch layout
• All track connections are soldered to 16 gauge wires underneath for consistent and reliable track voltage.
• 3D printed buildings (tire shop, Quonset hut, car dealership)
• Billboards and freeway signs are 3D printed
• Freeway signs are reproductions faithful to the original TYCO designs, plus some unique ones.
• Motorized, 3D printed oil pump jack
• Custom power supply and electrical layout featuring separate lines for lighting and accessories. (12, 9, and 5 volt)
• Switching center with LED indicators for power and track polarity.
• Log loader modified to move in forward and reverse
• Redesigned auto un-loader (3D printed)
• Trucks retrofitted with LED headlights, functional in forward and reverse
• Unique layout designed to be compact and transportable.
• Fiber optic airport runway lighting
My dad set this up for me and my brother back when I was a kid, and we would play with it for HOURS. Over the years I always looked with envy at the big rigs and dump trucks passing by. Welp, it's never too late. I'm closing in on 50, and got my CDL earlier this year. I go into training to drive a tractor-trailer for a farm/ranch supply chain on Tuesday. 🤠👍
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So the farm/ranch supply people ended up being total pieces of shit, so I went OTR. I've now picked up or delivered freight in almost every one of the lower 48, and been through almost every one I haven't. No Dakotas, Wisconsin, or Minnesota, or Maine, but everywhere else, I've been there.
this is amazing I'm 66 years old and I've never seen a Tyco track like this unbelievable
That's nothing...I'm 55 and I'm never seen anything like that at all. Used to do the train thing but too expensive anymore.
Santa brought me the "7 action" set. What a fantanstic toy! TYCO had it figured out right down to the low gearing.
Kids of today have no idea what a great toy is! The very fact that you can find these, and they still work ,is a testament to the build quality.
Thanks for the memories!!!
And then there's young me who enjoys model railroading, and none of the other kids understand
@@nitrobobgamez865 Thats O.K. Old me plays with trains now.
@@nitrobobgamez865 Yup, everyone has their faces slammed into their phones these day's, there is no fun, no joy, no interaction or socialising anymore, just "Hey" and "OK"...
How society has fallen.
That is cool. If I am not mistaken, tyco also incorporated a train crossing for your HO train to work with Trucking USA set.
Yes I had one and it was hard to find in my area. I finally got one at a Toys R Us. It was a straight track and was black. Don't know why it wasn't gray.
That's what made me click this video.
I finally found the missing part of my childhood. I must now acquire it.
I remember having basically all of those different little attachments with my full trucking set as a kid. It was one of my favorite things. That's seriously cool! Watching this brought back so many wonderful memories, thank you for that.
That is fantastic. I remember this line from when I was a kid but the layout and its ability to be transported is next level BRILLIANT.
The car loading and unloading is genius!
Your setup is really well designed! Watching this makes me miss my US1 collection! Thank you for sharing!
I have never seen a track like this! So cool! I keep laughing at the trucks working with aggression!!! lol.
Catzilla must enjoy taking over the town!
Wait'll they become Teamster organized. That will slow things down.
I had a layout similar to this one back in the early / mid 80's. Hours and hours of fun that was!
I have a number of the accessories in the original package. Fire Station's, Truck Stop, Pipe Unloading Crane, Auto Trailer, and others.
Real nice layout.
Totally groovy. Tyco set back in the early 80's my brother and I had a Tyco Trans Am race car set. It was a blast I miss those days.
I've not seen anything as great in my 64 years. Pure genius on the storage part. The thrill is everything works at an astounding level. As an Aurora collector, I can say there was nothing quite like this. The best part - you get to actually play with this incredible set up. WOW
I have a bunch of this sitting in boxes in my garage, still have the trucks too, probably don't have a lot of the little stations anymore as I believe those got scattered around a bit. I never saw the car carrier one, I have the airport and the log one and one or 2 others, definitely need to pull it all out and set it up some day. This is totally bringing back so many rad memories, thanks for sharing.
Woman: "I bet he's dreaming of other women"
Guy: ......
I never saw one like this. I often thought of using a slot track with a train layout and have it wired for a two lane road instead of the same direction side by side. Here Tyco did it with a lot of bells and whistles, so to speak. Thanks for the display and video!
This is soooo much fun and creative!Well done!Im here because I recently "disover" an old TYCO Formula 1 track set that I have laying around in my old parents house since my childhood!!!So much memories and I think its time to start building something...!!!!Thanks for this video!
As a train guy, I have to say that is a pretty awesome setup. Well done.
Great job, thanks for the memories. The only thing missing is Benny Hill music 😂😂
Love it; absolutely love it. You just took most of my 56 years off me; I feel like a kid again. Thank you.
I had this!! my dad brought the sets, including Howard Hanna building and restaurants.. even had the racers and extra Trax too!😯😮🤯
I had this track as a kid.The commercial made me want this so bad i bugged and bugged my mom for this.Well they had the construction one not this big but it had the dump trucks and everything.
I still have all these vehicles and accessories. Nice to know I’m not the only one.
Not sure why this showed up on my feed but I'm glad it did. So cool!
I forgot that I used to have one of these sets... Seeing the green dump popped the memory back.
Oh…my…god. I wanted one of these soooooooo bad for Christmas one year. It was when it got real popular because there were commercials running all the time. Couldn’t find a set anywhere in New York. I literally cried that Xmas. Never got one 😢
Toys were better back when. I had this set. Wish I had one still.
I had that when I was little, best Christmas ever.
Christmas 82....best Christmas ever.
I remember these :). I had no idea they were so interactive!!!!
The power of Commercials....when Id see these Toys on Commercials as a kid (im 50), I thought I could BUILD THE WORLD if only I had one of these lol........ Look, moves Rocks and Pipes... I could build a WHOLE TOWN with this equipment lol
LMAO.... Cat was like "ITS 3 IN THE MORNING JIM......... ENOUGH" lol
I have a bunch of US1 stuff and some nice trucks I was going to sell, and after watching this I think I’ll set it up and enjoy it.
I had this back when I was a kid-- so much fun
Never knew TYCO made something like this... Awsome
When I was younger, all my friends and I had at least 1 of the accessory sets for this line, with the 1 piece of track with the spur... but NONE of us had the actual set with the controller! So here we are, 30 years or so later... and thanks to UA-cam apparently deep scanning my brain... I now get to see a fully operational set!
Had 5 sets of these as a kid in the 80s--put them all together...loved it. Including the one that came with the oval railroad added to the tyco truck set.
Love the point of view from the trucks!!
Kids nowadays are getting robbed
I feel so incredibly scammed this is so much cooler than anything I had
I still have all of my Tyco slot cars and US-1 trucks. That blue cab over was one of my favorites. I love this portable table top set up! I only have a couple of the original buildings and a clothes basket full of the gray US-1 track, but it would be a good start on a old ping pong table I have. I was hoping to see the rare black tow truck with yellow flashing lights on the roof.... and the fire truck with flashing red lights and a sometimes annoying dinging bell on his layout. I'll be sure to include them on mine.
This guy has a lot going on on a few square feet. I bet he never grows old.
I miss these. 😅 The dash cam 😄😄😄 love it.
Wow , I had some of these as a kid . But they never seemed to function properly like this. Nice memories
This was the best Christmas gift my parents gave me as a child. I spent hours playing with this everyday. I'll never forget this.
I had the original us1, fire alert and GI Joe US1! I miss that dump truck! It was the fastest one!!!
This is actually real cool! I remember the commercials.
My god that brought back memories. I absolutely loved this as a kid.
I remember this set. It was a lot of fun. I had a few of the tracks. It's a shame you don't see TYCO sets anymore.
Tyco, IIRC, bought out by Mattel, and eliminated.
Wow, very cool. I have a small US1 trucking set. Green dump truck with the logs, and a red semi tractor with a Navajo trailer.
Omg!! Thank you so much it felt like 1983 I'm in tears😢😉😉
Glad you liked it.
Wow, talk about a blast from the past...I'm 45 now, and still remember having this track when I was really young
Totally coolness best thing bout having a Tyco trucks or train set is the fact you can cut the lights off and run it at night which makes it even cooler, wishing I could relive my Tyco yrs over again
This is great. Especially if you add a ho scale train to interact with the trucks. You could ship cargo on the train and transfer to the trucks or vice versa.
wow. remember the TV ads but havnt seen them since. very cool to ad to an HO train layout with other Tyco accs like it
Holy crap. I actually remember having this set. Mine had a cop car with it. Thanks for posting
This is the greatest thing I have ever seen
Take it with you on business trips! To the beach! The basketball game! Wherever you go, you'll always be ready for big-rig fun! ; P
Made me feel like I was 12 y/o again... probably makes you feel like that too when you’re playing with it... What an awesome build/design for storage...if I only had the time, I’d do this with my slot car track...only part city/part desert highway... THANKS FOR SHARING..!!!👍👍
I had the Tyco US1 Fire Alert which I integrated with an HO model railroad I built as a "tween." On the layout were Girder and Panel Buildings, Hot Wheels and MatchBox vehicles, and a general mix of Bachmann, Tyco, Lifelike and Atlas products. Great times.
Sounds like you wanted to be a real good trucker son who knew what you had to do. Get the action going on US1 where the trucks go on through!
I got this set, or much of it, for Christmas in maybe 1982. Loved it. So many functions. Unfortunately, the electronics started to malfunction a day or two later. Sent the steering console back to Tyco, they promptly sent a new one. That one began to malfunction pretty quickly too. Who knows? It was clearly a quality product. I might have got a dud. But still, I loved it when it worked!
My eyes got huge when you flipped over the one panel as you packed up the display- super cool- thanks for sharing.
My buddy had one of these as a kid and we loved it
OMG - this brings back good memories
Absolutely love this!!!! I had tyco US 1 electric trucking when I was a kid. Now at 48 I do it for a living here in NYC lol...thank you so much for this
If you want to make this more realistic, you need to slow that dump truck down to about 2mph at all times. Great toy. Wish I still had mine. One of the few of these types of toys that actually worked reliably.
That was amazing, inventive, creative, innovative, ingenious, and looked like a ton of fun! The video was funny as hell! Really really well done all around! The portability factor was also a work of genius!
I had so much Tyco stuff...I even worked for Tyco in the early 80's! I had no idea this existed until recently! Where was I?!?! I now want to dismantle my recently built model RR and start all over with this!
OMG, my mom bought me this back in the mid - or late 80's. It was so much fun. I had the Tyco USA or US1 truck race set. Kids today's will never experience this. Unless there is a cell phone strapped to it, it's boring!
I had this as a kid. I had an airport and when the wheels hit the gears I think it turned a helicopter's rotors. This is a great video!
I had so much fun with my US1 set as a kid. Later in my teen years we would do "Road Warrior" stuff with our slot car tracks. I can tell you that green dump truck, with the bed flipped over like a shell, tooth pick "logs" on the front and sides, turned it into a beast.
This was my favorite toy as a child thanks for the post
Had one of those when I was a kid and bought the track with the HO scale train track to go through it
My brother & I had the basic of basic Tyco semi truck set. he had the red & silver semi truck with the P. I.E. van trailer & i had the green dump truck. His truck would hook & unhook from the trailer at his terminal. My truck would dump the wooden logs at the sawmil terminal. And around & round & round the highway track we would truck. . . .for hours! Thankya for bringing back the memories
Coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time
That’s One Legendary Trucking Set There , Even though the set’s over 40 years old & I’am very surprised that it’s still working plus there were improvements because there’s lights along the roads plus the trucks have brighter headlights to guide them through & I just don’t like it , I love it .
I posted a remark about the Tyco cars & truck sets a couple of years ago. Our family loved them through out the 70s & 80s. This sad update is being made because we had a break-in where ALL of our classic toys, including Tyco, Erector, a significant portion of our American Flyer Trains, and much more was stolen. Who would have thought Tyco sets were a high risk collectibles? There’s no limit to the angst total strangers can dish out!
Insane speed of the vehicules!
Thanks for the memories. I remember having a two truck set and can recall the green dump truck vividly. It was an amazing toy.
I had this Tory when I was a kid. Man it brings back lots of great memories….video games killed the fun of these types of toys.
Awesome layout brother ! Brings back great memories ! Kids today have NO IDEA the great toys we had growing up !
I've watched this vid so many times. Carloader and airport 👍
I remember seeing this in the Sears catalog way back.. i wanted it sooo bad. :/
Oh man that brings back memories lol I wish I had that still
I had this set in the 80s I miss it its so cool '
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I had this a kid. Super Awesome toy!
Why did NOBODY tell me about this when I was a kid!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!! So very cool =)
Wow, most advanced slot car set ever!
Super fun!! Love the sense of humour as well :-)
So darn kool
Great memories
I had one of these sets as a kid, About 1980? it was a lot of fun. thanks for the memory. Nice layout.
Fantastic, greeting from Belgium.
This looks like a spitting image of my Faller HO set I had in the sixties. That was German made. (I'm from The Netherlands) I also had an HO traincrossing with moving gates.
a great toy to never be repeated
I would've loved to have had some of these when I was a kid.
I wanted the trucking set so bad when I was little, I did have a cool tyco cliffhanger set and a really neat tyck turbo hopper dune buggy slot car set with hills and mountains. I always wanted to make a baja 500 style layout for the off road set. Your portable layout idea is great!
This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen
I got a set for Christmas, mine had a tractor, gravel trailer, dump truck, and a fire truck. It came with a pipe loader you backed into and the pipes rolled into the dump truck. I bought a additional truck and a 2 trailer pack, Coca Cola tanker and a Roadway dry van. Never seen the auto carrier and accessories before...
Never seen anything like this in the UK growing up, I know I would have nagged Santa to death to get me one back in the day, Fantastic ❤❤
Very nice enjoyed this brings back good memories of my Aurora T-jet set
What a great system. Never seen it before (that I recall).
Thanks for this.
These were the coolest! Very nice setup!
Race On!
Whst an awesome video Now incorporate s model train layout complete with grade crossings. That would really make it fun to watch. Just saying. Have a great day everyone.