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My latest acquisition as far as locomotives are concerned, is an actual Life Like Proto 2000 SW9/1200 painted up in Northern Pacific Livery. This is not a Walthers loco; but, from back when Life Life produced locomotives and Car kits. This latest journey into model railroading for me started in 1988, when I started this layout. This was before Life Like got into their Proto 2000 phase! I remember when P2K first came out and was very impressed with both their cars and locos.
I bought the SW9/1200 on Ebay. I think this loco was near the beginning of LL P2Ks advance into the hobby as it still has X2F couplers on it. I bought a couple of LL P2K GP-7s in N.P. livery that came with X2Fs just after Life Like offered them, so this loco would be from around this same time.
Does anyone have a guesstimate on when this locomotive hit the market?
Another fascinating thing about this loco is that I doubt it spent much time being used. The warrentee card was still in the package! This must have been someones purchase who immediately lost interest in the hobby; or, is old inventory from a hobby shop that had it's inventory auctioned off. However, it came to Ebay for sale is anyone's guess!
Anyway, I found it interesting to open up this box of Times Gone By!
I bought the SW9/1200 on Ebay. I think this loco was near the beginning of LL P2Ks advance into the hobby as it still has X2F couplers on it. I bought a couple of LL P2K GP-7s in N.P. livery that came with X2Fs just after Life Like offered them, so this loco would be from around this same time.
Does anyone have a guesstimate on when this locomotive hit the market?
Another fascinating thing about this loco is that I doubt it spent much time being used. The warrentee card was still in the package! This must have been someones purchase who immediately lost interest in the hobby; or, is old inventory from a hobby shop that had it's inventory auctioned off. However, it came to Ebay for sale is anyone's guess!
Anyway, I found it interesting to open up this box of Times Gone By!