Badass Steam Locomotive Video

If you've never been close to an operating steam loco- it's definitely an experience.

I was up close and personal with AFT 1/ Reading 2101 on the 1976 American Freedom Train.

Remember it like it was 2 weeks ago.

I caught up with the 2101 38 years later at the B&O museum, after it had been damaged by a fire and subsequently "cosmetically" restored as AFT 1

2102 is now operational.

I may have to make some travel plans.

I wonder how many people can say they've ridden behind two sequentially numbered steam engines of the same class.