Robert K posted:CSX last had steam pulling a public excursion in October, 1994 on the New River Train. The Milw 261 subbing for 765 which went down for overhaul. That just happened to be the final year of steam on NS, too so in 1995 both NS and CSX were steam free and perhaps Conrail as well, CEO Dave LeVan wasn't exactly a friend of steam, and and you had to go to Steamtown, R&N (425), etc. to ride behind long distance steam in the east in 1995, the 261 actually came to Steamtown in 1995 and pulled excursions so those of us in eastern PA could see it and ride behind it, I didn't go to Steamtown that year or 1996 when it was there. Was there ever a point when NS, R&N, and Steamtown had no steam running at the same time?
So are you saying that it wasn't something that happened that caused CSX to ban steam? I could have sworn I saw something a while back that said it was some event that caused the ban. It really wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to me that a company would just say hey let's do that because they're doing it. There's always a definitive reason or reasons that such decisions are made.
