In closing, Tom, I once again, thank you for posting this.
I live near Cincinnati, grew up on the B & O railroad just where the steam helper was stationed to push the westbound freights up out of the Ohio River valley, and am just old enough to remember main line steam past my parents farm.
From my Lionel days beneath the Christmas tree in the mid 1950s until now, I remain a steam fan.
This summer I plan to make an automobile trip west to Billings, MT where my son lives, then to Cheyenne to see the UP steam shops, the Mecca that I have not yet seen. Afterward, I will drive to Dallas to visit my brother in Grapevine, before driving onward to Houston to see the triple expansion steam engines in the only surviving dreadnought battleship, the USS Texas.
For those of you who do not know, it was not wind mills, solar panels, petroleum, or horses and mules that made this once great country great. Rather, it was coal and steam.
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