Brown Box Era HO-Scale Trains
Unloading Box Car
Unloading Box Car
(No.930)
(1971-1980)
Introduced in the 1970-71 catalog, the Unloading Box Car
Set (No.930) remained in TYCO's product line through the 1980 catalog listings. Though absent from the last dozen
or so years of TYCO's train line, this set is fairly easily obtained at swap meets and on online auctions.
A member
of the Action Cars & Accessories series, this set consisted of a 40' box car that was specially modified with a hatch
on its roof to accept small plastic crates. Inside the car was a sloped section that the crates rested in until the unloading
was performed. Two figures are located in the box car's doorway and slide back and forth causing the crates to drop one at
a time and fire out the door of the car. The car functions via electricity from the accessories side of the power pack. The
car was fitted with a box containing two prongs on one side of the model just below the door. When the car is over the unloading
area the prongs are making contact with a panel that is hooked up to electricity. As the button is depressed, the unloading
function begins.
The box car in this set was only offered in CB&Q-Burlington Route's Chinese Red paint scheme.
For such a neat accessory, it is a shame that TYCO never offered multiple road names for this special car.
This set
in a modified form sold as the No.920 Unloading Mail Car Set for a few years in the early 1980s.
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