https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM3_p3gHKBA

I was just reading an article on the BBC about this.

I love it, your standing their with your Iphone drinking a hipster coffee and all of a sudden its Victorian London again and Arthur Conan Doyle is coming to visit.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Victorian? Try mid 20th century or later.

The US used steam engines in regular service till the mid-60s. They were used in Europe much later -- cheap coal, less oil available. I remember riding on regularly-scheduled steam trains in the early 90s in Poland with my family, as well as 1997 and 1998 when I was there alone.

Interestingly, the Brits used the kind of "Victorian" compartment cars with a door to each compartment till recently as well. I recall those from the mid to late 90s. Electric powered with a motor under each car, not steam.

I lived in South Wales until the early 1960's and rode steam trains frequently from the valleys down to Cardiff.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I read somewhere that "The Cannonball" from Petticoat Junction is still working in a railroad museum in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_door_trains

South west trains eventually bought new rolling stock (as they said they would do decades earlier) in 2005

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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