EBT Jim posted:Ukaflyer posted:It is interesting how we differ across the pond with respect to engines being restored back to steam and on show as part of our historic past.
Over here any steam engine returned to steam and is living and breathing again is a bonus to the ranks of preservation, no matter who the operator was, yet over in the US I detect the animosity against specific engines as being vitriolic just because of other personal views/feelings.
The VAST majority of folks here in the colonies feel the same as you Brits.
You just get the same small handful of vocal people on the internet grinding their personal axes and such. No one cares what they say.
Tomorrow I am going down to the Watercress line to see the ‘Flying Scotsman’. We have a couple of tickets for one of the planned runs. She is a northern engine compared to my childhood days of ‘Southern’ locomotive power, but do I care, no, it is an iconic engine regardless, it is living, breathing and alive, what more can you ask for?
