Steam & Excursion > Sickening Sunday Subject

Makes me sick to look at this. There but for the grace of God goes the 1522. This was in either Granite City or Madison, IL. Thousands of engines met death there.
Sad.

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That should be illegal!!!!

Obscene!

I've seen this scene all over the world.

Well if it sickens you so much, then why did you post the photo?

Boy when I saw that title I thought this would be post on UP Steam and special Ed!

Such a sad image...

PHall Wrote:
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> Well if it sickens you so much, then why did you
> post the photo?


I guess if you have to ask, you'll never get it anyway. My recall is that the book "the End of Steam" sold pretty well, and was a major work of the time...but that was a long time ago. Back to the subject, I recall those dead lines....they were heartbreaking, but, so long as those old timers still existed, one could wish/hope for a big business turnaround so they would be returned to service. I know, that would never happen, but this teenager (at the time) still had hope, that is until those lines shrunk and disappeared. Heartbreaking times for a lover of steam. AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Sad indeed, unfortunately the natural evolution of all things mechanical!

Mike

But Steam had the Last Laugh at Keystone Steel & Wire, for a while

miralomarail Wrote:
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> But Steam had the Last Laugh at Keystone Steel &
> Wire, for a while

Northwest Steel & Wire in Sterling, IL?

masterphots Wrote:
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> miralomarail Wrote:
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> > But Steam had the Last Laugh at Keystone Steel
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> > Wire, for a while
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> Northwest Steel & Wire in Sterling, IL?

I heard they made a Corp Name Change

Not in steam days, not that it really matters at this point.

Steam always has the last laugh, when it comes to popular appeal. Even an Alco PA takes a slight back seat to steam, (no offense to diesel fans).

Let's lift the mood a bit. We'll never return to the days when steam locomotives and interurban cars were part of everyday life, but we have had some days when the past comes back to life.

1) Santa Fe 3751 sits cold, silent and motionless in San Bernardino back around 1972.

2) 40 years later, 3751 steams along a former Pacific Electric route down the middle of the San Bernardino Freeway.

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