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 Posted - March 31 2010 : 10:22:50 PM
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After work today, I was on a road-trip, so did some local shopping. I ran across Wonder Books, a very large used book store chain that usually has some awesome stuff, and quite a bit on Trains, more so than many stores like them.
Anyway, I was going thru all the train books and magazines,and found a 9 year old catalog, I'm assuming that BL-2's by Lifelike came out in 2001, the Proto 2000 series, it says that in the book, but I can't find a publishing date anywhere in or on it, so I'm having to go by the contents. On the cover are not one but THREE Bl-2's, C&O, Monon, and Western Maryland. Sweet! The catalog was $1 / free at the time, but cost me $5 to take it home. I consider it worth it, since I like BL-2's so much. :) Yes, I admit it! Very interesting that they chose to put 3 of them on a cover, I'd never seen the catalog before. There's one detailing tip inside on painting the BL-2 engineer and fireman, as they're both all black like the frame. Here's a pic of the cover :
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Posted - April 01 2010 : 01:51:04 AM
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Nice find Jerry! I've never seen that particular item before....
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Posted - April 02 2010 : 4:44:00 PM
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Yep, that'd date to around 1989-1990 or so and likely would have been a free insert in Life-Like train sets of the time.
The Proto 2000 BL2 was the first Proto 2000 locomotive and would have been their top-of-the-line for the time, so it makes sense to show them off on literature.
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Posted - April 02 2010 : 10:26:32 PM
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I've got one also from about 1988. It came in a boxed set a friend gave me. Different cover though. I also had one from a set I got at Meijer around 1998. The cover was a black and white photo of the layout on the 1980 Lifelike catalog. As I recall these have a lot of tips for detailing rollong stock, buildings and the like. Last year I picked up a glossy color Like Like catalog from a small hobby shop while on vacation. I cant remember the year but it is about 10 years old. There were almost no accesoroes in it just sets.
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Posted - April 02 2010 : 11:10:14 PM
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ooo I used to get those & I think in one theres a article that says "This O scale sign is fine in HO"  I want that particular sign!
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Posted - April 04 2010 : 10:13:01 PM
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| I've got an earlier edition of that book. I'll never forget the Christmas morning that I got my first LL set, and that book became the new Bible to me. (forgive the blasphemy.) As for those BL2's, they also made a big debut in Railroad Model Craftsman. I remember scratching my head at them and the roadnames I wasn't familiar with back then, like Monon.
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