Hands at the controls of a 130-ton steam locomotive, would-be engineers experience the days long gone by.
"They are not refined machines," says Bill Hobbs, a retired securities industry executive. "The feeling of crude power is a big part of the attraction."
Bill is in his third day of the school, spending thousands of dollars learning how to drive the trains. The locomotives are owned jointly by a Colorado-New Mexico state trust and operated for excursions and education.
Would you want to operate a train of yesterday?
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