Steam Never Dies: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''Diesel is for unbelievers

''Electricity is wrong

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* 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''.

* The [[Harry Potter|Hogwarts Express]], in two senses: not only is the train anachronistic, it's preserved in a world that generally does not use mechanized technology.

 

 

* In the UK, the warning sign for a level crossing without gates or barriers is a steam locomotive.

** Ditto for Russia.

* In [[Real Life]], one can find the occasional steam train still (or again) in operation even in well developed countries, e.g. as tourist attraction or as a [[Break Out the Museum Piece|museum piece]].

** This is especially true in the uk, where a combination of Dr Beeching closing down a large number of railway lines and Barry scrapyard (which was one of the main locations steam engines were sent to be scrapped) being willing to wait while preservation societies got together the money to buy engines, means that there is a large number of steam run preservation lines across the country that run steam engines as a tourist attraction. Most of them have more than one working steam locomotive.

* The Purdue University's sports team, the Boilermakers, has a steam locomotive on their team logo. This is a reference to the origins of the nickname: in the early days of [[Collegiate American Football|college football]], Purdue is rumored to have cheated by paying workers at the local locomotive works (and others) to play for them. Purdue insists that the nickname derives from its days as a heavy-lifting engineering school, but even then, the link to steam power (what do you think they were engineering in the 1890s?) stands.

* [[wikipedia:LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado|The A1 Tornado]] is a modern steam locomotive build by railroad fans. It's fully up to specifications for running on modern railroads.

* In Russia, some steam locomotives and maintenance infrastructure for them is still kept mothballed for use in case of wartime power/oil shortages.

* Many countries have steam specials, which are special trains pulled by a steam engines on main lines as a special event.