China's Steam Trains
"In China's Sichuan province, some of the last passenger steam train services in the world still carry out their runs. These holdovers from past decades are obsolete almost everywhere else, but in China's industrial interior, the old locomotives continue to run coal and people between the isolated towns along the railways.
The trains are a tourist attraction as well as transport, with rail enthusiasts traveling from around the world to see the steam trains in action while they can. In a series of photographs taken along the Jiayang Railway and in the small towns of Bagou and Shixi, Getty photographer Kevin Frayer captured incredible shots that look like they belong to another era"
Pix of China's steam trains -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/20/china-steam-trains-photos_n_7333062.html?cps=gravity_2429_-1121018990629208287
Brought back memories. Back in the late 40's my father took me down to the railroad station to see the last steam engine on its run from the local coal mines to Pittsburgh. Never forget that magnificent monster as it passed in a glory of steam - which I am sure the engineer let out for our entertainment. It was glorious. They replaced them with diesel trains and something was lost.