Happy New Year all.
A family friend just gave me a large collection of McCoy standard gauge. It includes all of the TCA freight cars and passenger cars. There are also a few non-TCA freight cars. The collection also included the TCA 4-4-4 electric locomotive. None of the collection was ever run and some of the cars are still sealed in there original boxes.
I am not looking to know if this is valuable I am just looking for information. I am trying to get the McCoy book currently. I saw from other posts it is a good reference. Are parts available for these still? If so who can I contact? Is there anything I need to watch out for, like bad castings? I noticed the wheels on the flatcar loads have cracked.
One other question is how rare are the McCoy steam locomotives? I would like to get one to pull the passenger cars, not necessarily the yellow TCA version.
Thanks, Ryan.