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The last steam locomotives to run in the US for non-railfan purposes were at Northwestern Steel & Wire in Steerling, Illinois. They used 16 former GTW 0-8-0's until the early 80's. They were donated to the IRM, but unfortunately not all of them ended up being preserved. For the whole story go to http://lostengines.railfan.net/morelost.htm . <br /> <br />Steam almost came back in the late 70's/early 80's with the ACE project. Because of the high prices of diesel fuel there were plans to build modern coal burning steam locomotives, wich would save an awful lot of money on fuel costs. BN and Chessie were going to participate in this and the steam locomotives got really close to being built, but unfortunately it didn't happen. The only downside was that the plans for them looked just like a diesel on a steam locomotives frames rather than a conventional steam engine. Go to www.trainweb.org/tusp/ult.html . I'd have loved to see this actually happen. Just imagine how different railroading might be today if it had.
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