The train rides I've loved fall into two different groups:

A) hobby / historic trains. These are typically live steam, 
restored and run
for tourist money. My absolute favorite of those is the Old 
Poway Midland
Railroad and their little Baldwin steamer which is about 30 
min from my
house.
http://techref.massmind.org/techref/member/JMN-EFP-786/powaymidlandrr.htm
http://www.powaymidlandrr.org

These are not practical to run nor ecological at all. 
Perhaps the largest of
them could be converted to run with a small nuke plant on 
board... ;)

The joy of those rides is from knowing the level of 
technology that was
available and seeing how much work my forefathers got done 
with what they
had. I'm proud of those trains.

___

Glenbrook Steam Festival 2007
More steam thingys than you can shake a stick at.
1901 White Steamer - operational.
1931 Bugatti Type 54 Grand Prix (only steams when 
overheated)
Morgan V-twin Matchless (When it steams you are in REAL 
trouble)
Stirling Engine models
Much much much more. Traction engines, chaff cutters, 
Pantechnicons, ...
1400 photos


        http://public.fotki.com/russellmc/events/festival/glenbrook2007/


            Russell


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