Yes..l HAD the attitude about it l had about a couple of eastern roads, and their rolling stock (that's all they babble about... don't bother me)....but this achievement, getting one of the largest in the world on the rails recovers some of my childhood experience, down at the station with steamers, when they were just part of the scenery. Wonder if trackage and bridges would allow this economy size loco east of Chicago? I hope the UP got its publicity money's worth, plus!, and other roads with no management interest in their own history take notice. Uh, such as in the New River Gorge. Picture THAT crossing the Hawks Nest Bridge, if it could safely do so. They'd need crowd control, for sure, if it got into populated east.
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