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last holdouts for steam in america and canada

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What was the very last North American railroad to use steam engines in revenue service? I remember a Trains article about one West Virginia logging and mining railroad which also served some isolated communities and used them up to about 1965. And there was another article which mentioned a Washington state logging line which used some up to about 1967. <br /> <br />Steam engines sure held on longer than you would expect in many parts of the world. We've all heard about how China and India used them up to the late 1980s, though this might be expected since both are rather poor countries and the latter (I don't know about India) has a large supply of coal. <br />But even prosperous Europe and Japan continued with them for quite some time. Britain formally retired steam engines in 1968, Japan in 1975 (on the rural northern island of Hokkaido), and the former West Germany also only in the '70s. The former East Germany apparently continued with some steam up to the end of the Cold War, and some steam engines are still run in revenue service in the former East Germany and Poland, though largely for the benefit of tourists, and supported by their and other railfans' donations.
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