In August of 1955 J. Parker Lamb paid a visit to the Mississippian Railway up in northeast Mississippi. Its work done, he recorded this view of the road’s #77 as it slides slowly back into the enginehouse where it will be checked out and lubed for tomorrow’s run. At left, the #76 rests quietly until she is again called back to work.
In a search on Google Maps, I see the enginehouse still there as of their latest street-view photograph taken in August of 2024.
Until you have shoveled corncobs & coal into a furnace.
Doing it in the cold weather, The soot smell never leaves buildings like that Engine house.
Coal smoke, hot oil, steam and creosote . . . perfume to an old railroad man!
-Jack