I'm sorry Jim. I did see it and even bookmarked it but forgot to thank you for it. I loved the passenger trains even with Diesels. The Pennsy was running exclusively diesel when I was a kid, but there were still a few steamers in freight service, mainly M1's and K4's. My Dad fired the last M1 to run the PanHandle Division into Columbus in 1954 where they were scrapped. He and his engineer, Steve Bodie, both loved the steamers. He had been an engineer for 20 years when he died, all on diesel (he spent his entire working and army life on the railroad), but he still told great tales of the K3's and K4's and the muscular M1's.

Back in those days too, rail employee's families always had free passes and there were still plenty of passenger trains. In 1956 we drove to Chicago to take the Broadway to NYC and I have the greatest memories of that trip. The appointments were so much better than on the normal passenger trains, even at that late date being pretty luxurious. It was the end of a great era.

Thanks a lot for the page. I wish I had ridden many of those........Chessie's GW through the mountains must have been beautiful.

Spaw