Rambo Train Set

Here's the rambo set

 

GI Joe Train Set

Another Tyco goodie...

These sets were cheap, all in one sets, complate with a mat to set them up on, BTW

 

Transformers train set

These came with little robot figures, instad of plastic soldiers, and the engine, and cars all transformed.

 

 

M*A*S*H train set...

Even Bachmann got involved in this trend!

 

All of the buildings (tents) and structures were on a thin cardboard sheet that you had to cut out, and build.

Sort of an introduction to modeling, I suppose.

MASK train set

Another Tyco license on a Kenner product. It was out at the same time as the GIjOE, and Transformers train set, which were Hasbro licenses... it's interesting to note that Kenner and Hasbro were competetors (until Hasbro bought Kenner in the 90s) and MASK was Kenners answer to both Transformers and GI Joe. The toy line had figures, and vehicles that transformed. It would seem, the train set has cars that were knock offs of Mattel's "Hot Wheels" cars (out of scale with thetrain set, of course)

 

 

I had the GI Joe one as a

Pettycoat Junction train set

So here's the Pettycoat Junction set... the first image is the original Tyco set, while the second is a reproduction of the set made from Mantua items.

 

 

 

The ones I know...

So those are all the ones I know about... if you guys can think of more, by all means!

Model Railroading is FUN!

(don't forget... photos are awesome to share)

GI Joe...

A few months back, I saw the GI Joe engine in teh junk bin at my local hobby shop (Reed's)

I almost bought it too! I was so tempted!

Last I was in there it was gone, and someone suggested it was bought by a child that went nuts over it, and wanted to fix it up. Maybe that will build a new railroad hobbyist some day!

I did have both MASK and Go

I did have both MASK and Go Bots as slot car racing tracks as well. Both are still at my parent's house.

I had the Missle Force train

I had the Missle Force train set as a kid where you shot a missle launcher at an "exploading boxcar"

Go Bots Train Set...

OMG! I almost forgot the Go-Bots train set!

Go Bots actually beat Transformers to market by a few months, but Transformers had better marketing, and a comic book (Go Bots had a cartoon, and would later have a comic book, but it was poorly written)

Go Bots were oft times refered to as the "K-Mart Transformers"

What was cool about the Go Bots set (other than a lot of the Go Bots toys could be used with it) was that the controller was a robot as well! (that shot his fists at passing trains... you go, AHM! Get those replacement sales! Kidding... just kidding)

 

Missile Force Train.

You will be happy to know, that MRC (under their Model Power brand) has re-released the Missile Force train set, now with Bachmann steel EZ track!

It was highlighted in the product anouncements in MRH last month!

http://mrhpub.com/2018-02-feb/online/?page=289

http://www.modelrectifier.com/product-p/061068.htm

Photos of my GI Joe Loco

Here's all I have left from that GI Joe set just the loco. It doesn't run it smokes if you try.

Sitting in my cubicle on the little diorama I made. I think my diorama counts as riduculous becuase I have the famous LL Bean Boot being transported along the route. A 40 ft statue of one is outside their flagship store 20 min north of me.

STAR WARS

I really want this Star Wars Train from Bradford Express. They also make a Spiderman one...

NICE!

There's a guy on the Facebook "Bachmann Trains Group" page that I helped fix a coupler issue with that train (the couplers that come with it aren't strong enough to pull cars without dropping cars, especially with how long he has thetrain... he has almost every car made for it... he switched to Kadee whisker couplers, and Intermountain wheels! Works beautifully now!)

I don't know if anyone can see it, but, here's a link to video of his running:

Petticoat Junction set: not that ridiculous...

Petticoat Junction one was actually pretty accurate for the prototype (Seirra RR #3). When I first got into the hobby as a kid in the late 70s-early 80s, that locomotive was a staple within the hobby. A lot of people I knew in HO at the time had one.

My first train set was the

My first train set was the Bachmann Zenith Electronics Set. My dad worked for Zenith for 50 years in R&D. I assume he got it at the compay store, but in more recent years I've learned it was a fairly popular set.

I still have the box cars with Kadee couplers mounted and I dropped the shell on an Athearn U28/30B frame. 

A Team

Growing up when and where I did, in the backwoods of Northern Minnesota, I never saw any of those wild train sets, but there also wasn't any viable hobby shops, or even large chain department stores that sold anything train related except the local Woolworth store with the occasional Christmas stock. 

At least now, thanks to Warflight, with the picture of the A Team set, I now know where the weird black tank car with a red stripe and no reporting marks or data marks somewhere in my collection of rolling stock originated. I thought it was a car someone had kit bashed and painted at home.

There was one train set I remember...

... that was truely "special". It was some off-brand toy set at Toys 'R' Us, around 20 years ago now.. The packaging claimed it was "N Scale", and it did indeed have 9mm gauge track in the box... and the locomotive (One AA battery powered, IIRC) and cars were the approximate width and height of prototypes they sort-of represented...

... but were twice the length they should have been. ALL of them. A "fifty foot" boxcar was 8 inches long! So was the "F3" locomotive! It was just... too bizarre for words.

I think that easily takes the prize as the "Most Ridiculous Trainset"

I'm sure I can cross post this.

Working on cars and toy trains...  Marketing Genius 

Not Model but Toy

I had the Hulk Train Set as a kid it was battery powered O scale with all plastic track and cheap but I loved it.

That would go nice with my HULK pinball Machine

That would go nice with my HULK pinball Machine

Snap On

Snap On logo actually looks pretty sharp on warbonnet scheme

Jeff