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 Posted - February 13 2016 : 6:47:52 PM
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Ok, I've been all OVER Tony Cook's site, the Internet, and I have yet to find a SINGLE engine that matches this one. The power truck is a geared unit like an old Varney, or the Marx HO hustler switcher, I think even Revell had something similar, and Globe. I've never seen another diesel like this with Tyco-like split fore and aft trucks. Open frame motor, gear drive on the rear only. Very strange engine. The slot for the rear truck is in the yellow paint line, and goes partially into the molded door frame, there is no other shell I've seen like this one. I can't figure it out. Who made this thing? The number boards are painted and blank, no lights there, and there is no painted number on the shell, either, VERY strange. I got this engine out of my shop's trash last week, and I've been puzzling over it ever since. Other differences are that it runs black trucks, not silver like most SF F9's. Will welcome any ID on this one.
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 7:43:51 PM
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Jerry, it's a earlier run of Life Like. The previous versions were exact Varney copies with 8 wheel drive. The run after this went pancake I believe.
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 8:26:48 PM
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quote:Jerry, it's a earlier run of Life Like. The previous versions were exact Varney copies with 8 wheel drive. The run after this went pancake I believe.
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - February 13 2016 : 7:43:51 PM
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I was going to think it was L-L, but I could find nothing on it whatsoever. So a transition design probably ?
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 8:29:27 PM
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Also, that's not an F9. It's an F7.
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 10:30:13 PM
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| Nasty little noise-makers.
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 10:34:57 PM
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| I recently sold a Penn Central similar to this it was a transition piece
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Posted - February 14 2016 : 12:01:15 AM
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| I was also going to say Life Like. I had one with the exact same motor however it was geared differently. Cool find!
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Posted - February 15 2016 : 6:47:21 PM
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OK, Zelda, after we invade Micro's bunker, strip Walt
of his light pole collection, we need to add this to
our "shopping trip." Thank Heavens "thesiding"
sold off his PC to parts unknown, or I would be
obsessively compelled to grab that puppy as well.
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Posted - March 27 2016 : 12:22:25 AM
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I have one exactly like it. I got mine at an auction.
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Posted - March 27 2016 : 11:20:05 PM
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| Spin dry.
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