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 Posted - May 26 2014 : 3:16:03 PM
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I'm sure anyone who's started out with a Life-Like train set will remember these booklets:
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The booklets would be included in Life-Like's train sets, for new model railroaders to get some ideas with their new trains. The guides came with around 90 to 130 tips for model railroaders, including many submitted by readers or modelers. Of course, most of them are for working with Life-Like's products, but they can pretty much work with just about any HO train line's equivalent. Some of these tips I have actually done on my layout as well!
They also have little product catalogs near the end showing what they have available at the time.
The sixth, ninth and twelfth editions are available for viewing here (I submitted the latter two):
http://hoseeker.net/lifelike.htm
So far the latest edition offered is the thirteenth, from maybe 2005-2006, when Walthers acquired Life-Like. No new edition has been planned or published yet, and some of Life-Like's sets do not come with this guide anymore.
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Posted - May 26 2014 : 4:01:07 PM
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BINGO! Tip #86! http://hoseeker.net/lifelikeinformation/lifelikebeginnerguide6thpg19.jpg
YES! I knew it was in one!
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Posted - May 28 2014 : 11:35:32 PM
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Hehe, yep. It's in the seventh edition too, from the late 1980s. I think they removed that tip from later editions when they discontinued that sign.
Here's one tip from the ninth edition I found to be handy:
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Posted - May 29 2014 : 12:13:07 AM
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Hehe, yep. It's in the seventh edition too, from the late 1980s. I think they removed that tip from later editions when they discontinued that sign.
Originally posted by wiley209Â -Â May 28 2014Â :Â 11:35:32 PM
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& I got that sign too
I though it'd be cool with the (HJ) Roadside Resturant (depot) from Atlas
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