On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:34:01 GMT, You wrote:

Yep and I took a ride on a Steam Powered, Gear Driven, Railroad Train
that operates out of Tillamook, Oregon, just two months ago...

In 1988 the chinese were still producing steam locomotives. A tourist
railroad in Boone Iowa has one of the last dozen produced at the
Datong locomotive works. The did keep making parts for the ten
thousand in service.

Casady