Thread still active after three years - not bad!
I was reminded watching something the other day that whenever the History Channel has a program where they need a shot of a US steam train, it's almost always some central-European train. A recent episode of "The Toys That Built America" had A.C. Gilbert going from New Haven CT to New York City in the early 1910s on a train with a black European steam engine with red wheels and a couple of obviously not American (let alone New Haven) passenger cars behind.
