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Life-Like - 7603 - Train Set - Union Pacific - 3-unit

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N Scale - Life-Like - 7603 - Train Set - Union Pacific - 3-unit
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Stock Number7603
BrandLife-Like
ManufacturerLife-Like
Body StyleLife-Like Train Set
PrototypeTrain Set
Road or Company NameUnion Pacific (Details)
Road or Reporting Number3-unit
Coupler TypeRapido Hook
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
Multipack Count3
Multipack ID Number7603
Series NameDouble Header
Item CategoryFreight Train
Model TypeDiesel
Model SubtypeEMD
Model VarietyF7A 3-Unit-Set



Specific Item Information: Double Header Set with Caboose

- EMD F7A, Union Pacific 1400, Life-Like Stock Number 7752
- EMD F7A, Union Pacific 1404, unpowered dummy unit, only available in this set
- Caboose Cupola Offset 8-Window, Union Pacific 3821, Life-Like Stock Number 7712
Series Information: The 'Double Header Set with Caboose' is a series of train sets by Life-Like that comprises two locomotives of the same type, one powered and the other dummy, and a caboose, all from the same road name.
Road Name History:
The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Union Pacific Railroad network is the largest in the United States and employs 42,600 people. It is also one of the world's largest transportation companies.

Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP); both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Over the years Union Pacific Corporation has grown by acquiring other railroads, notably the Missouri Pacific, Chicago & North Western, Western Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific (including the Denver & Rio Grande Western).

Union Pacific Corporation's main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the nation's second largest freight railroad, which also primarily services the Continental U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the U.S.

Read more on Wikipedia and on Union Pacific official website.
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: klausnahr on 2021-05-08 14:44:43. Last edited by klausnahr on 2021-05-08 15:01:43

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