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F9B Diesel Locomotive
Penn Central
-Early 1970s Release
F9B Diesel Locomotive
Santa Fe
No. 230H
No. 230-21
From the beginning of its 1970s Brown Box Era, TYCO used a letter
suffix designation on stock numbers to note roadnames, this changes with the 1975-76 catalog. As of 1975, TYCO
uses two-digit suffix numbers to note a loco or freight car's roadname. The Santa Fe F9B would have been TYCO's
230H item, until the 1975 numbering change turned it to 230-21. The Santa Fe F9B is last listed in a TYCO
catalog in 1976 and is the last F9B offering under the TYCO name through the company's 1993 departure from HO-scale model
trains.
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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