bobdavisnpf posted:that's a pretty cool look back. Lots of guys looking back fondly on Steam and accepting Diesel as a colder, "less alive", but inexorable wave of the future. Worth noting the guy who admits a steam loco could have a "personality" that was trouble all the time.
"No more we hear the cracking whip,
Or the strong wheel's rumbling sound,
For the hissing steam now drives us on,
And an iron steed is found.
The coach stands rusting in the yard;
The horse has sought the plow;
We have spanned the word with iron rails,
And the steam-king rules us now."
(poem referencing demise of the Lancaster Turnpike quoted in "Suburban Stations and Rural Homes on the Pennsylvania Railroad" p. 34)
