I love railroad memorabilia, collect old railroad grade pocket watches, and this is a very beautiful piece of history. I would love a ride on one, even take my grandchildren, it is a very real part of the fabric of American history, and America's great leap forward in a era long left to the pages of history and seldom seen or experienced today. 
I truly love this story and that beautifully restored, coal burning, railroad engine coming back to life with painstaking love, attention to history, and cost it took to do so. But one question I have is can we do away with the farce of having to take our modern cars through emissions, especially since today's modern cars are burning cleaner, lasting years longer, and very few can even compare to the cars of yesteryears of which very few remain on our roads, except the restored classics?
Today's required emissions are becoming a scam on motorists, most big garages don't even use hoses on the exhaust pipe of new cars running indoors anymore.