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History of Proto 2000 and 1000 engines.
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<P>Some years ago I travelled to London and paid a visit to a well known model railway store, now sadly closed, and told the staff I wanted to start modelling American railroads.</P> <P>I asked for a loco that was highly detailed, state of the art and not to expensive, after some thought they offered me one of the newly arrived Proto 2000 Monon BL2's. I was so impressed I bought it without hesitation, it was so superior to the available British models of the time.</P> <P>It was the first issue by Proto 2000 and I was so pleased with it I have been buying their locos ever since and now have over 100.</P> <P>Sadly the railroad empire I planned came to nought and a much smaller layout developed, I have also moved on to model other roads and the poor two Monon BL2's which have hardly ever been used are now to be sold.</P> <P>One of my grandsons, now living in here in England, is named Ben Rivera, when we were looking without success for a name for our freelance steam models the penny dropped and we simply deleted the "A" from his name and the BEN RIVER RAILROAD was born, so we now have steam as well.</P> <P>So the very first release by Proto 2000, the BL2, certainly started something for us, we now follow the RI, GMO, MP, GN and DRGW, needless to say many of our models are Proto, we have never had a bad one and have no complaints at all about them.</P> <P>Though the situation has improved greatly with British models we will not change from our US roads, you don't know how lucky you are.</P> <P> </P>
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