Chuffing, hissing and moaning, steam engines are like mythic creatures — dragonlike spectacles that draw a crowd wherever they go. But in October 1956, the era of daily steam engines was ending in San ...
Formally, the 66-year-old steam engine at Portland & Western's Albany yard is known as Southern Pacific 4449. But to Jo Judd of Albany it will always be "Dad's engine." "My dad considered it his," ...