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The first thing I head for when I visit the Smithsonian complex is the railroad
room in (I believe) the History & Technology building. I think that there are
very few locomotives that could surpass the Southern's 1401 as a representative
steam loco. The Southern Crescent colors go beyond being appropriate... they are
just RIGHT, in some inexplicable way, and the complexity of the pistons and rods
is reminiscent of the old Lionel trains, but orders of magnitude larger and
inexplicably elegant.

If you wait in that room long enough, there is a recording which plays, of this
very locomotive pulling away from a station. As that recording plays, you can
rest your fingers on the side rod and feel the vibrations... the sympathy between
the recording and the permormer... a remembrance of days past and work well done...