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I found these in the Amarillo Railroad Museum and I don't know what they are.
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3. This appears to be a prototype for a Kadee magnet. The museum had several of these between the rails.
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the train cars are part of the nuclear weapons transporting train used during the cold war if memory serves me there were white later changed to red because of the white was
attracting too many antinuke protester's , the first car was the guard car.
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Cool! Thanks, Jim.
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07-27-2024, 12:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-27-2024, 12:57 PM by jim currie.)
here is a link to pic of the trail with a AT&SF engine
https://th.bing.com/th?id=ODL.cdb237fb49...1&pid=13.1
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Very cool. Thank you, Jim.
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