How do you evaluate the price of model trains?

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Dousing the hogs

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Keeping hogs wet in summer heat was vital in keeping them healthy during transit in stock cars. This manual twin-handle pump soaks both decks of hogs on Swift Live Stock Express cars in a New York Central train east of Rome, N.Y. S.K. Bolton Jr. photo […]

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Are the Hammerhead and Western Maryland RS3s similar?

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California Zephyr on the SP

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It’s August 1951, and the westbound California Zephyr has left its normal Western Pacific route via the Feather River Canyon to detour over Southern Pacific’s Donner Pass line. Helping the CZ’s usual three WP F units up into the Sierra Nevada is an SP cab-forward. Gordon Odegard photo […]

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B&O F7 helpers

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A four-unit set of EMD F7 diesels leans against a coal drag climbing Baltimore & Ohio’s Cranberry Grade west of Terra Alta, W.Va., in the early 1950s. H. W. Pontin photo […]

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Canadian Pacific 4-4-0s

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Two of Canadian Pacific’s final three 4-4-0s are seen at Chipman, N.B., in November 1953. Engine 136 is getting ready for the daily run to Norton while No. 144, main rods off and stack covered, watches; sister No. 29 occupied a stall in the enginehouse nearby. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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Where is the issue where roadbed was tested?

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UP 2-8-8-0 in the Blue Mountains

Union Pacific 2-8-8-0 in the Blue Mountains

The Union Pacific’s 3500-class 2-8-8-0s were often found lugging freights in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Here, No. 3532 pulls 70 cars of an extra freight upgrade west of La Grande, Ore., in July 1948. Henry R. Griffiths Jr. photo […]

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