Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Time to oil the locomotive

With a freight passing on the adjacent track, the engineer of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 no. 3781 uses the few minutes of free time to oil the locomotive. Gary Hoover of Florissant, Mo., took the photo on his old HO scale Missouri, Kansas & Quincy.

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