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I know that GP38-2 all too well. It came with the Life-Like "Freight Runner" train set I got for Christmas ten years ago when I decided to "start over" with my model railroading and try out "realistic" landscaping techniques and such (i.e. ground-cover paths, lychen, etc.) Definitely a neat train set, what with it incorporating a Power-Loc figure-8 track layout with the 90-degree crossing track section Life-Like introduced in their waning years, thus keeping everything at one level and allowing for better placement of structures and accessories, such as the included railroad crossing, stock pen (complete with farmer, cow and pig figures) and Snap-Loc Dickerson Station building kit, along with including the usual autos, trees, signs and utility poles found in many Life-Like sets. Even though it clearly felt like a set that could've been made in the 1980s or 1990s (save for the Power-Loc roadbed track), complete with the cheaper pancake motor and plastic wheels and truck-mount X2F couplers, it was still great fun, and it was in a way like a fun throwback to the aforementioned older Life-Like sets along with the older Bachmann and TYCO sets of the time. Originally posted by wiley209 - January 08 2021 :  5:55:06 PM