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Life-Like - N0096 - Locomotive, Diesel, EMD GP9 - St. Lawrence & Hudson - 1625

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Commissioned ByHobbycraft Canada
Stock NumberN0096
Original Retail Price$175.00
BrandLife-Like
ManufacturerLife-Like
Body StyleLife-Like Diesel Engine GP9 Chop Nose
Prototype VehicleLocomotive, Diesel, EMD GP9 (Details)
Road or Company NameSt. Lawrence & Hudson (Details)
Reporting MarksCP Rail
Road or Reporting Number1625
Paint Color(s)Action Red
Print Color(s)White
Paint SchemeSt Laurence & Hudson
Additional Markings/SloganStL&H
Coupler TypeRapido Hook
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileStandard
DCC ReadinessNo
Release Date2003-08-01
Item CategoryLocomotives
Model TypeDiesel
Model SubtypeEMD
Model VarietyGP9U
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era III: Transition (1939 - 1957)
Scale1/160



Specific Item Information: Custom
Model Information: Life-Like Canada (Hobbycraft Canada) introduced this model in 2003. It came in two different variants:
- GP-9RM: CN version (flat cab front)
- GP-9U: CP version (extended cab front)

This model has pretty much every feature associated with "modern" diesel models:
- IE, all-metal / split-frame chassis, skew-wound 5-pole motor, dual flywheels, low-friction drive/pickup, all-plastic gearing, bi-directional LED lighting, low-profile blackened wheels, shell-mounted Rapido-style couplers, fine shell detailing, crisp paint, etc.
DCC Information: The model is not DCC-Ready. Like all Life-Like of that vintage (early 2000s), it has split light boards. Installation of a wired-decoder is possible pending a bit of milling and soldering.
Prototype History:
An EMD GP9 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division in the United States, and General Motors Diesel in Canada between January, 1954, and August, 1963. US production ended in December, 1959, while an additional thirteen units were built in Canada, including the last two in August, 1963. Power was provided by an EMD 567C sixteen-cylinder engine which generated 1,750 horsepower (1.30 MW). This locomotive type was offered both with and without control cabs; locomotives built without control cabs were called GP9B locomotives. All GP9B locomotives were built in the United States between February, 1954, and December, 1959.

One option available for locomotives without dynamic brakes, was to remove the two 22.5 in × 102 in (571.5 mm × 2,590.8 mm) air reservoir tanks from under the frame, and replace them with four 12 in × 150.25 in (304.80 mm × 3,816.35 mm) tanks that were installed on the roof of the locomotive, above the prime mover. These “torpedo tubes” as they were nicknamed, enabled the fuel and water tanks to be increased to 1,100 US gallons (4,200 l; 920 imp gal) each, although some railroads opted for roof-mounted air tanks and 2,200 US gallons (8,300 l; 1,800 imp gal) fuel tanks on their freight ‘Geeps’.

From Wikipedia
Road Name History:
Taken word-for-word from Wikipedia.org, they define the StL&H like this:

The StL&H arose out of a corporate reorganization at CPR that was announced on November 21, 1995. CPR wished to spin off its “eastern operating unit” into an operating railway company as a means to control poor financial performance of its assets in eastern North America.

“ A new management group responsible for the company’s operations in the east, including the Delaware & Hudson Railway, will be headquartered in Montreal. The eastern unit will be responsible for turning the railway’s operations between Montreal to Chicago and the U.S. Northeast into the most efficient, low-cost provider of railway services in the region. The new eastern unit will allow the railway to aggressively address the persistent losses it has sustained on its operations in the region. Its creation follows earlier efforts to merge with CN in the east and to acquire CN’s eastern operations. The new unit will have autonomy to determine its own equipment requirements, network rationalization and labour relationships. ” — Canadian Pacific Railway, November 21, 1995, http://www.trainweb.org/galt-stn/stlh.htm

The new wholly owned subsidiary was named the St. Lawrence & Hudson Railway Company Limited and became operational on October 1, 1996, taking control of all CPR assets from Quebec City to Chicago (CPR trackage and trackage rights), and from Montreal to Washington, D.C. (Delaware and Hudson Railway), thus the D&H became a SL&H subsidiary.
Brand/Importer Information:
Life-Like Products LLC (now Life-Like Toy and Hobby division of Wm. K. Walthers) was a manufacturer of model railroad products and was based in Baltimore, Maryland.

It was founded in the 1950s by a company that pioneered extruded foam ice chests under the Lifoam trademark. Because ice chests are a summer seasonal item, the company needed a way to keep the factory operating year round. As model railroading was becoming popular in the post-war years, they saw this as an opportunity and so manufactured extruded foam tunnels for model trains. Over the years, Life-Like expanded into other scenery items, finally manufacturing rolling stock beginning in the late 1960s. At some point in the early 1970s, Life-Like purchased Varney Inc. and began to produce the former Varney line as its own.

The Canadian distributor for Life-Like products, Canadian Hobbycraft, saw a missing segment in market for Canadian model prototypes, and started producing a few Canadian models that were later, with a few modifications, offered in the US market with US roadnames.

In 2005, the company, now known as Lifoam Industries, LLC, decided to concentrate on their core products of extruded foam and sold their model railroad operations to Wm. K. Walthers.

In June 2018, Atlas and Walthers announced to have reached an agreement under which all Walthers N scale rolling stock tooling, including the former Life-Like tooling, will be purchased by Atlas.

Read more on Wikipedia and The Train Collectors Association.
Item created by: Powderman on 2018-01-15 08:30:02. Last edited by gdm on 2021-01-09 08:34:28

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