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One of my 70s Life-Like catalogs. Interesting reading and photos...
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Posted - May 25 2014 : 11:30:06 AM
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Cool AOTW, Walt. Anyway, my AOTW is a box that holds my H0 scale Rio Grande livestock car.
-Steve
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Posted - May 25 2014 : 12:40:00 PM
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I like their advertisement photo of these buildings... I have both for my layout...
Edited by - walt on May 25 2014 12:44:22 PM
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Posted - May 25 2014 : 2:29:20 PM
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Well, that takes the cake.
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Posted - May 25 2014 : 2:43:39 PM
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Quit monkeying around.
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Posted - May 27 2014 : 8:47:04 PM
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Here's a neat blister pack Life-Like sold back in the 1980s and 1990s...
(Mine's in the 1991 packaging style.)
Some nice stuff, but those street lamps are WAY too big. Maybe they'll work better for O-scale...
I also remember those road barricades and railroad signals coming with several of Life-Like's train sets in the 1980s.
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Posted - May 27 2014 : 10:13:43 PM
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| Nice set Wiley! I agree on the large lamps... Love the lighted billboards. I have a bunch of and had 3 in my hand tonight. I'm soon to hook up a strand of my light ups to see how well one transformer works for how many lights...
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Posted - May 28 2014 : 12:10:10 AM
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quote:Here's a neat blister pack Life-Like sold back in the 1980s and 1990s...
(Mine's in the 1991 packaging style.)
Some nice stuff, but those street lamps are WAY too big. Maybe they'll work better for O-scale...
I also remember those road barricades and railroad signals coming with several of Life-Like's train sets in the 1980s.
Originally posted by wiley209Â -Â May 27 2014Â :Â 8:47:04 PM
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I believe I have the same set still in the blister pack too! Possibly with different package graphics though. I also have always thought the same thing about those street lamps.
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Posted - May 30 2014 : 6:51:35 PM
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Nothing beats working marker lights..battery, switch, and interior light included under the removable roof. 
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Posted - May 31 2014 : 01:32:25 AM
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| Great work, those marker lamps are the bomb!
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Posted - May 31 2014 : 06:46:53 AM
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quote:| Nothing beats working marker lights..battery, switch, and interior light included under the removable roof Originally posted by Adams - May 30 2014 : 6:51:35 PM |
That's pretty neat! The caboose looks like a Model Die Casting model. If so, it wouldn't come with marker lights.
Is it MDC?
Did you add those marker lights, or get it with them?
If you added them, were they a kit or did you make them yourself?
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - May 31 2014 : 10:00:45 AM
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| Yes, it's an MDC/Roundhouse kit. The marker lights were a separate item that I installed. I already had an old battery holder and switch to make them work.
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Posted - June 01 2014 : 11:26:13 AM
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| That's a neat detail Adams. Looks like you've got someone sitting in the cupola as well?
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