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{{quote|''Diesel is for unbelievers
''Electricity is wrong
''Steam has got the power that will pull us along.''|"Light at the End of the Tunnel," ''[[Starlight Express]]''}}
A sub-trope of [[Anachronism Stew]]. The cultural snapshot we have of locomotives, especially as portrayed in children's literature, seems frozen in time. The protagonists may eat modern junk food, watch TV and do their homework on a computer, but when the time comes to take the train to visit Aunt Tilly, suddenly it's 1899 all over again, complete with steam engine, caboose, coal car, coal tender, dining car, and engineers wearing blue coveralls and funny hats.
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Not to be confused with [[Steampunk]], though some of the artistic sentiment may overlap. Compare [[Stanley Steamer Spaceship]].
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== Literature ==
* Most locomotives in the [[Richard Scarry]] books are of the steam variety: the only time a diesel locomotive was ever shown in their world is in the book ''The Best Word Book Ever''.
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