Learn to Drive a Real Steam Engine Train
The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad offers a chance to drive a real steam locomotive … you have to take the Fireman Steam School Class & Engineer Steam School Class before getting the certificate to drive the train – which makes sense if you set the engine on fire …
You can check it out here.
In the US you operate a locomotive.
In England you drive a train.
My son just turned 21, and he and I are doing a road trip out west. We’ll be riding the C&TS on the 17th the 64 miles from Antonito to Chama … it’ll be something like my seventh trip there, and his first.
(MET: Sounds fun!)