>>1248420Pretty much any preserved locomotive being brought back to steam is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. One of the things you get from reading about the transition from stream to diesels was that the railroads were in a big hurry in 1958-1960 to scrap everything and that by 1970 everyone was like, "Holy crap, we should have saved some of those." I look at things like the fact that none of the 285 New York Central J type Hudsons survive and am thankful for everything we do
have.In the US a lot of smaller locomotives that ended sold off to branch lines or industrial mining and logging operations survive, but not many of the thousands of mainline giants are still around, much less running.
