Re: Water

I agree leave it in the book.
A more modern-day steam story for you along the same lines. In the fall of 1988, I was shooting a Frisco 1522 trip from St. Louis to Decatur, which would end my shooting of that engine(drove over 7,000 miles videotaping it that year). Anyway, I had been promised a cab ride on the return trip from Decatur. On this particular trip the train was operated over Norfolk Southern tracks and NS demanded that an NS steam person operate the engine. The engineer, whom I knew from the NS steam trips was indeed working the engine all day. He lamanted to me that he disliked not having a coal pile to pee into. 1522 is an oil-burner, and all the engines he ever operated on the Norfolk Southern excursions were coal-burners. Hard to believe the NS steam program is gone, and the 1522! That was the good old days for mainline steam in the US(late 80's).
Greg