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Beside the kits the guys have mentioned above, there is also the R-T-R stuff. Atlas has a line they call Steam Era and what I saw looked pretty nice. Remember the steam era ran from about 1830 to 1960. You drill down what your stop time and place is for your operation and folks can tell you more of what to look for. The suggestion on build date is a good one for not having rolling stock after your cutoff. You can probably give most rolling stock a 40 year life but even today there is oddball stuff in various museums because it managed to live longer than that in some out of the way place. Branch line and small industry (think logging) often had stuff that was no longer legal for interchange and after a fashion was made illegal for that industry as well.
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