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Sometime after about 1975 he came to find S scale almost extinct and the AC Gilbert Co. out of business. Items promised to arrive did not and waited over 2 years for a locomotive power unit that was advertised as being available. The power unit kit he received in 1980 was so poor in his opinion that even he could make a better one. After checking with tool and die makers and the costs involved got him thinking about making just one locomotive. So he convinced his wife of the need to sell their large house, take out the cash and put it into tooling for the FP-7 locomotive.