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F9-A Diesel Locomotive
Balitmore & Ohio
F9-A Diesel Locomotive
Burlington Northern
F9-A Diesel Locomotive Canadian National
F9-A Diesel Locomotive Canadian Pacific
F9-A Diesel Locomotive Chicago & Northwestern
F9-A Diesel Locomotive
Penn Central
No. T233-G
F9-A Diesel Locomotive Santa
Fe
No. T233-B
F9-A Diesel Locomotive
Union Pacific
From its appearance, the Life-Like F-9A looks to be the former American,
Train & Track tooling. During the early '70s, Life-Like imported a number of locos from Yugoslovia. The Century
415 and 628, as well as RS-11 were all Yugoslovian-made examples. The C-415 was also part of the defunct AT&T line
and got another run thanks to Life-Like.
The Life-Like F-9A carried a $14.00 retail price and appears to have been issued as a powered loco
only. Life-Like gave the F-9A the stock number T233.
Click on the Life-Like ad below to see a larger version. This ad appeared in the February 1974
edition of Railroad Model Craftsman magazine and includes the F-9A model.
Above is Life-Like's early 1970s Cannonball Diesel Freight train set.
Notice that it appears the Santa Fe A-unit is the Yugoslovian-made former American Train & Track F9-A, that Life-Like
sold for a time in the early part of the 1970s. It appears to be mated with the former Varney tooling F7-B in this set.
The Varney F7-A and F7-B tooling that Life-Like used was originally part of the Penn Line roster. The catalog image
I have for this Cannonball set features the former Varney F7-A and -B units and doesn't reflect the contents of this set.
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