End of an Era

A classy thing to do on McCoy's part.

Thank you for sharing.

TRW

This is a nice touch. Pretty cool part of history too.

The end of MTH doesn't bother me at all.  3rd Rail and Golden Gate Depot are dedicated to carry on the tradition of top notch high quality O gauge trains in Century 21.  It won't get any better than this!

Item: The end of McCoy was a huge loss in the modern production of quality standard gauge trains.

My Grandfather was a McCoy collector. He took me as a guest to York when I was 17yrs old in 1983 and I had the pleasure of meeting  Bob and Margaret McCoy and purchasing my own Cascade E2 from them. Over the years I collected a handful of circus cars as paper route money and Christmas requests saw fit. When Grandpop passed, I inherited his McCoy collection.

Despite their famous zinc pest issues, I consider these to be high quality toys, and am trying my best to keep my McCoy fleet running.

I think I took it the right way...it is, after all, a seafood car. I have several hand written notes by Margaret, I can tell you it's authentic. And I've owned several of those cars, maybe even more than several, and this is the only one I've had with a note. And as a kid, I was lucky enough to visit the McCoy's at their house (and chicken coop) in Kent, Washington. Margaret even made us all lunch. She, and the entire family, were a class act in my opinion. They always treated my family wonderfully!

OOPS! I obviously missed the intended joke! I owe CHOO-CHOO MIKE a sincere apology!

McCoy was definitely a CLASS ACT and a great "mom and pop" enterprise! :-)

POC914NUT  to keep this on a seafood theme, you probably don't remember but Margaret made us tuna sandwiches.

@POC914NUT posted:

With MTH closing up shop, and Mike deservedly retiring, I was reminded of a time when another manufacturer did the same.

McCoy Mfg. closed 1998.  Their last production item was a car for the TCA convention.  They made 189 of these cars that were sold through TCA.  However, the very last car had a special letter put inside it by Margaret.  I happened to get lucky and ended up with this car and letter.   I thought I'd share it here.   I wonder if Mike will do the same thing?

POC914NUT... a better headline for this thread, specifically mentioning McCoy, would draw more people in.