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Greg,
I had a similar experience. Back when the CB&Q was still operating steam excursions out of Chicago, I was aboard one cold, damp, dark and snowy December. Our train stopped just outside a small town in Illinois (I whish I remembered which one) for a photo run. The population of the town was clearly less than the number of passengers aboard our train. We climbed off into a snowy field along the railroad and also along a local road. Engine 4960 and train then backed completely out of sight. The looks on the faces of the occupants of the cars that passed was worth the price of the trip!
While standing in that cold field, I couldn’t miss a conversation between two men standing behind me -- one a sailor and the other a soldier. The soldier wanted to know, “Why is the smoke white?” The sailor who clearly outranked him and seemed to have an answer for everything said, “It’s because they burn Anthracite coal.”
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