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My memory of steam was in mid-fifties central KY, seeing a long coal train being pulled by a steamer with a silver front on the smoke box. I never saw any steam engines till we moved to Toledo where I saw a small roundhouse and several engines on a track. They were all rusty and were to be cut up for scrap. Greenfield Village (Henry Ford Museum) Dearborn Mi has a running steam engine from the late 1800s. It was originally owned by Tomas Edison who drove it for a hobby. Personally, I love that sweet smell of coal smoke. Thanks for all the great pictures people.
I rode on many coal fired steam trains in Germany back in 1965 (I was seven in that picture). They were everywhere, chugging away and streaming smoke and steam everywhere. I remember looking out an open window and getting cinders in my eyes. Ten years later I visited again and not a single steamer was to be seen. They had all been replaced by either diesel or electric trains.
