I was born long enough to remember steam trains almost as if it were yesterday huffing puffing giants that rattled the windows ,steam escaping as they shot down the tracks billowing smoke and steam .
The very last ever steamer built by Baldwin _Lima _Hamilton ,a Berkshire passenger engine is on display less than a mile from where it was built .Nickel Plate RR number 779 ,1949 .Those things could run like 100 miles per hour .
Lima was famous for the Allegany frieght engines ,designed to haul coal over the allegany mountains .The largest steamers ever made and could produce a max of around 7500 HP at speed .Only two survive ,one in the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Mich . It took two of them,one forward one aft to move some of those 100 car coal trains up the mountains but it took three or four diesels to do the same , Trivia 101