Tyco Mantua F7 Restoration ⛽️🧰 Can We Fix It? 

Super. I still operate a Mantua/Tyco F-7A locomotive that I bought brand new almost 50 years ago, and I kitbashed two Tyco F-7A bodies onto two Athearn Superpower F unit frames (Easy) so I had two single headlight F-7A locomotives with 36" dynamic brake fans, and a filled in pilot with an integral coupler mount instead of the large holes in the body for the frame mounted couplers that most Athearn Bluebox locomotives have. I have had about an equal number of "survivor" Tyco locomotives and "Turn it into a dummy, it disintegrated," Tyco locomotives, but all were fun to buy, open the box, and then bring them to life on my railroad. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

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