<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=27V2mr_0uMft3h500" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=27V2mr_0uMft3h500" width="960" height="266" ></figure><p>Model Train, ca. 1970s</p><p>Did you know that in July of 1862, the US Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act which authorized the building of the Transcontinental Railroad? Two railroad companies were granted land and rights of way to build as well as government bonds to fund the construction; the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad. This HO scale model depicts a train from the Central Pacific Railroad line, the western part of the Transcontinental Railroad which ran eastward from Sacramento, California.</p><p>The steam locomotive features a 4-6-0-wheel configuration, but no markings to identify which locomotive in Central Pacific’s service it is meant to represent. Following the engine is a standard coal car, the Central Pacific Passenger Car #147, the Western Atlantic flatcar #244, and the Central Pacific boxcar #836. These cars suggest that the model is intended to depict a train operating in the late 1860s.</p></div></body>

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Model Train

Did you know that in July of 1862, the US Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act which authorized the building of the Transcontinental Railroad? Two railroad companies were granted land and rights of way to build as well as government bonds to fund the construction; the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad. This HO scale model depicts a train from the Central Pacific Railroad line, the western part of the Transcontinental Railroad which ran eastward from Sacramento, California.