Wonderful, yet bittersweet, photographs. Got a big kick out of the two little guys peeking out of the nose cone. What superb machines - built just a little too late in the steam era, and without sufficient time to work out the kinks in the design.
In my younger days (the 1950's), the T1's were just too far out for my taste. About 1980 saw a Sunnyside Shop O Scale T1 at Bill's Hobby Shop in Park Ridge, IL (predecessor of Hill's Hobbies), and became a life-long fan.