This guy is right. Those of you who are still kidding yourselves need to get over it and if you ever want to see anything close to mainline steam start keeping an eye on the Reading & Northern's excursion schedule. Andy Muller is now running the country's premier steam excursion program there and is not afraid to run the hell out of 2102 to the delight of fans craving "how things used to be."

As for 611, VMT needs to figure out where the hell they want that locomotive, get it there, and keep it there. NS is about out of good will to move that thing back and forth at the whim of a couple of tourist operations. Wick Moorman is gone and Casey Thomason is nothing but a pool engineer in Columbus, GA. The era of toys is dead and gone on NS.