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Broadway Limited Train Set

Typical of most R-T-R (Ready-To-Run) manufacturers, TYCO's Streamline Passenger Cars are all a bit shorter than prototypical length. Standard length for a passenger car is 85-feet, these cars measure about 72-feet. This is likely done to accomidate operation around the sharp curves of 18"-radius most commonly offered by TYCO. All cars in this series are lighted with electrical pick-up via the cars trucks.  The cars featured a strip of paper that was inside and attached to the car's window sections that had silhouettes of passengers.  A metal antenna is found running down the roofline of the Observation car.  Though never deocorated with a train name or logo, the Obs tooling included a drumhead on the rear that had a snap-in clear round plug.  The last roadname TYCO produced for the steamliners was Amtrak Phase II paint and it is last cataloged in 1981 as part of The Broadway Limited train set. 

The Lost Passenger Cars...
 
 

Pictured below and taken from a mid-'50s TYCO catalog, the following bodystyles did not find themselves available by the early 1960s. These cars were offered in aluminum constructed bodies, which switched to plastic around 1960. MANTUA would later resurrect these carbodies and the aluminum construction for its own line of products around 1980.

Streamline Baggage

Streamline Vista-Dome

Streamline Diner

Streamline Sleeper