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Not particularly in my case. I have seen exactly ONE steam engine and I was three years old, I could only see the top of the boiler, so couldn't even say if it was an EM-1 or a Pacific, or a Mikado. I remember the sound it made was much different from the diesels, even though I was about half a mile away. Having grown up in the early- to mid-50's, diesels were coming into their own. We'd sit for hours on my grandmother's porch and watch the B & O trains going by, E's and F's were the rule of the day. Having said that, there is something about a steam engine, something elemental that stands out and says, I have power! Perhaps it's outmoded, it's smoky, dirty, and subject to breakdowns due to the complexity of the gear, but watching those siderods moving the drivers and seeing the smoke blast out of the stack with a load of steam just says it all for me. I model steam (my very first Lionel locomotive was a steam) and first generation diesels. That doesn't mean I don't like the looks of an SD80MAC, though. Good answers from all of you.
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