Reply to "Will the 1361 ever see the rails again"

@KOOLjock1 posted:

TV reporters… “most steam locomotives were retired in the 1980’s…”

Journalism is dead.

Jon

I mean if we speak in technicality, the reporter isn’t too far off. NS steam ended in the 90’s, retiring almost all of the steam locomotives operating in mainline service here in the east (611, 1218, 4501, 630, 2716, etc). Even the faux Southern 2-10-4 (610) was gone by the early 80’s. A lot of restoration stars were being retired by the 80’s and 90’s.