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I spent 28 years fixing CTA rail cars at the Skokie Shops, and if there's one thing that career taught me, it's how to spot quality machinery and how to sniff out junk. My dad ran Lionel trains around our Christmas tree in Cicero when I was a kid, and I've been buying, running, and fixing model loco …

I spent three weeks hunting for a Broadway Limited Mikado last spring. By the time I found one, I'd learned more about the HO steam market than I ever wanted to know. The experience reminded me of my day job in trucking logistics: scarcity drives behavior, and the prepared buyer wins. If you're loo …