>>1245235They're really fucking cool in a way that diesels can never be, Anon, but there's a reason every railroad dropped them like a hot potato when the diesels came around. They're nowhere near as practical.
Still, wish we had saved more of them, late-model steam especially. Late-model steam was the fucking coolest. You got all the crazy or elegant designs as a last-ditch effort to compete with the diesels. The Big Boys, NW 611, PRR T1, were all incredibly unique locomotive designs. We're amazingly lucky to 2/3 of them today.
