Steam Train In Oregon

As a railroad buff, a former fireman on the D&RGW Railroad, out of Salt Lake City, and a former trackman on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad in Skagway, Alaska, I get a kick out of steam trains. This is the Mt Hood Railroad engine pulling into the station during a family reunion in Oregon. It was puffing smoke, kicking up dust, and exhibiting a liberal amount of steam leaks--just the way we railroad buffs like our steamers. My father, Wayne, who worked many years for the D&RGW Railroad, ran the last steam engine the D&RGW owned to the scrap yard--a very sad day, indeed. He put together a consortium to buy a Union Pacific Big Boy (the largest steamer ever built) but the UP Railroad sadly turned him down.