Here is unadulterated steam activity at the west end of DeWitt in February of 1950. Left to right: engine 2719 departs with fifty empty hoppers enroute to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Southport (Elmira), N. Y.; engine 3134 waits for a signal to back…
Whether or not a person is readily fascinated by the steam locomotive, he is more apt to be impressed by a cluster of these dirty brutes around a roundhouse than by an equal number of diesels at a service station. Indeed, he is compelled to be…