Tyco Chattanooga Choo Choo HO scale.
Robert Young
Updated on April 07, 2026
I have the spot you mentioned on that tape, but it's a pirated copy of a copy of a copy!
You know, my friend Gary had this set when he was a kid, and I don't remember the tender drive-system! I DO remember the whistling billboard(Maxwell House Coffee?) and how it sounded much like the tender for my #2046.
For a kid growing up in the 1970's it wasn't a bad set. Remember that while I was struggling with PRR Baby Madisons with fixed couplers that would part at every low and high spot on my handed down fifty year old train table, and roller pick-up s that would drop into the gap on my scmattering of pre-war switches, this Tyco set didn't seem too bad.
After I finally invested in a 26 year old #2046 for my bicentennial Christmas, I started to feel the bug bite, and haven't looked at HO again!
Jon