Most stuff I see online now isn’t fun to watch. Jay Leno’s video of the Union Pacific “Big Boy” articulated steam engine was fun for me.

GG-1 locomotive 

When I commuted to Charles P. Mills Photography Inc. in Philly from Coatesville I could occasionally ride the “Spirit of St. Louis” driven by a GG-1 Electric.  It had 1950s passenger cars. You could recline the seat fully & not go near the seat in front or behind. 

In the 1950s I helped my dad with Sunday New York Times delivered on Saturday night by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train driven by a GG-1. 

I remember feeling the raw power of the GG-1 engine.

Pennsylvania RR 0-6-0
switcher engine 

Until sometime in 1957 when I was in 8th grade I watched a switcher steam engine move box cars in and out of Chertoks & Lipkins Furniture stores sidings & coal hopper cars in and out of Kerns Coal Yard at 5th Avenue & Fleetwood St. 

Union Pacific’s Big Boy Locomotive - World’s Largest and Most Powerful Train - Jay Leno