Tom Walker wrote in a message to Joe Nicholson:

->  And steam is what the trek over the Sierras was all about, and
->  that is the emphasis at Sacramento.

 TW>  BUT they are mostly a "static" display. They have very Few Running
 TW> Steam Engines.

FWIW,  there's a group that does a get-together not too far from here each
year around the beginning of september...

Not just trains,  but all sorts of steam-powered stuff.  The last time I
was there they even had an actual steam-driven sawmill in operation.  It
was pretty interesting to watch,  along with a lot of the other stuff
there.

It's a real shame that we've pretty much lost a lot of that technology and
know-how in this country any more.

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