Steam is dead and so are cabooses so deal with it. I love WW II planes but know I can't see them every day. Diesels don't have the individuality that steam had but they are impressive pieces of modern engineering and manufacturing so I enjoy watching them. There is a lot of brute power controlled by one guy sitting at the controls in the locomotive. A railroad foreman of engines on NS told me when he was running the long coal trains at 60 mph that he felt like superman. I met him out railfanning.
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